Alfred Rosenfeld

Born:	11-15-1892
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Alfred ROSENFELD (born on November 15^th, 1892 in Orosháza/Hungary), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on May 10^th, 1917 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'. In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on July 17^th, 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 unwuerdig'). It took 13 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. He had opened his office on October 11^th, 1927 in Vienna's 1^st district, Riemergasse 10, and was a court interpreter for Hungarian language and was eliminated from the advocates list for racist reason in 1938. End of July 1938 he could emigrate to Palestine [Israel] and worked in a library. Later he went to Great Britain (1957 in London), and returned to Austria in 1960 and was appointed court interpreter again.

Lit: SAUER/REITER-ZATLOUKAL 2010, 287; Vienna City Archive/Historical Registration Files ("Meldearchiv"); Austrian State Archives/Archives of the Republic/Entschädigungs- und Restitutionsangelegenheiten ("Compensation and restitution matters")/Hilfsfonds ("Assistance Fund"); Austrian State Archives/Archives of the Republic/Entschädigungs- und Restitutionsangelegenheiten ("Compensation and restitution matters")/Vermögensverkehrsstelle ("Property Transaction Office")/Vermögensanmeldungen ("Property notices") VA 40006.

Herbert Posch