Kurt Popper

Born:	10-13-1919
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled student

Kurt POPPER, born on October 13^th, 1919 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Ing. Richard Popper (white-collar employee), lived in Vienna's 5^th district, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 98. After his graduation from highschool (Elisabethgymnasium Vienna 5) in summer 1937 her started to study at the University of Vienna. He was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 1^st year of his studies and took courses in Pharmaceutics and Chemistry. In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism he was forced to quit his studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna. He had to flee Austria and was able to emigrate to the USA in 1938; his parents and his sister Renee Rose were also able to emigrate to the USA two years later. He worked at United Packers Inc, became a US citizen and joined the US Army in January 1942 and fought in Europe in the liberation of Hitler's Germany, from June 1944 in the US Intelligence service. He died at age 24 on September 12^th, 1944, as a U.S. soldier in the liberation of Luxembourg and was buried in Oakridge-Glen Oak Cemetery, Hillside, Cook County, Illinois, USA.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 451; www.ancestry.com.

Herbert Posch