Ernst Politzer

Born:	03-24-1903
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Ernst POLITZER (born on March 24th, 1903 in Vienna), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on June 21st, 1928 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'.
In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on July 17th, 1942 with the racist argument, that he as a Jew was not considered dignified an academic degree of a German university ('eines akademischen Grades einer deutschen Hochschule unwürdig').
It took 10 years since the deprivation until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on August 11th, 1952.