Max Platschek

Born:	11-24-1885
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Max PLATSCHEK (born on November 24^th, 1885 in Proßnitz/Mähren [Prostějov/Tschechien]), had graduated at the Medical School at the University of Vienna on March 31^st, 1911 with the academic degree 'Dr. med.'. It seems that he returned to his hometown after graduation and started to practise there. He married Elsa, née Lasus/Lasusová and their dughters Greta and Ruth were also born there in 1918 and 1922. In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on July 22^nd, 1943 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 unwuerdig"). It took 12 years since the deprivation - and a very long time since the end of Nazism - until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on May 15^th, 1955.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/graduation register ("Promotionsprotokoll") MED 1904–1912 Nr. 1260, rectorate GZ 118 ex 1942/43 ONr. 120, GZ 561 ex 1944/45 ONr. 15; POSCH/STADLER 2005; POSCH 2009, 457; www.geni.com.

Herbert Posch