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Harry Redlich

Born: 05-30-1882
Faculty: Law School
Category: Deprivation of academic degree
Harry REDLICH (born on May 30th, 1882 in Vienna, entiteled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Gröding, Moravia [Czech Republic]), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on July 9th, 1907 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'.
In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on July 22nd, 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 unwürdig').
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 15th, 1955.
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