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Lisbeth Reichmann (Damboritz / Danbury)

Born:	09-01-1915
Faculty:	Medical School \| Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Lisbeth REICHMANN (married: DAMBORITZ later: DANBURY), born on September 1^st, 1915 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), lived together with her parents Alois and Emilie Reichmann, owner of the famous bookshop Alois Reichmann (Vienna's 4^th district at Wiedner Haupstrasse 18), first in Vienna's 4^th district at Paniglgasse 16, after the death of the father in 1936 with her mother in Wiedner Hauptstrasse 23. After she had graduated from high school (Maedchengymnasium Rahlgasse in Vienna's 6^th district) in 1933, she began to study medicine at the University of Vienna from fall term 1933/34 on and was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Medical School in the 5^th and last year of her studies (but this was no more validated due to "lack of attendance in the courses", while fall term was validated on January 28^th, 1938). She was no more allowed to continue her medical studies and to take the last step to finish her studies. A Leaving Certificate ('Abgangszeugnis') was issued on May 25^th, 1938. The family's bookshop was "aryanized" (robbed), her brother, Dr. Felix Reichmann imprisoned, and she married her fellow student Robert Damboritz (later Danbury), forced to leave university too, and was able to emigrate to Great Britain.
Both their medical studies were not accepted in Great Britain. While he was able to restart his medical studies in 1947 and qualified in 1952 in manipulative medicine, she could never finish or restart her studies. In Vienna she started restitution law proceedings after 1945 for the family's bookshop, that she owned together with her brother after the death of her mother. She had two children, Peter and Elizabeth, and died in Croydon Surrey/England in December 1969.

Lit.: information of her grandson Prof. Dr. Richard Danbury, Leicester/Cambridge 2012 and 2019; "Aryanisation" of the bookshop Alois Reichmann, 2001; KNIEFACZ/POSCH 2017b

Katharina Kniefacz and Herbert Posch

Nationale of Lisbeth Reichmann (later married Damboritz / Dunbary), fall term 1937/38 (1st form front), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Lisbeth Reichmann (later married Damboritz / Dunbary), fall term 1937/38 (1st form back), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Lisbeth Reichmann (later married Damboritz / Dunbary), fall term 1937/38 (2nd form front), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Lisbeth Reichmann (later married Damboritz / Dunbary), fall term 1937/38 (2nd form back), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Lisbeth Reichmann (later married Damboritz / Dunbary), spring term 1938 (1st form front), Photo: H. Posch (c) Archive of the University of Vienna

Nationale of Lisbeth Reichmann (later married Damboritz / Dunbary), spring term 1938 (1st form back), Photo: H. Posch (c) Archive of the University of Vienna

Nationale of Lisbeth Reichmann (later married Damboritz / Dunbary), spring term 1938 (2nd form front), Photo: H. Posch (c) Archive of the University of Vienna

Nationale of Lisbeth Reichmann (later married Damboritz / Dunbary), spring term 1938 (2nd form back), Photo: H. Posch (c) Archive of the University of Vienna

Elisabeth Reichmann (later: Lisbeth Danbury, bottom left) and Robert Damboritz (later: Danbury) with aprons in Vienna in the 1930ies, (c) Richard Danbury

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