Hedwig Irene Bindermann (Burger)

Born:	03-06-1918
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Hedwig Irene BINDERMANN (verh. BURGER), born on March 6th, 1918 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Dr. Max Bindermann (lawyer, 1880-1960), lived in Vienna's 19^th district, Schegargasse 3, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Medical School in the 2^nd year of her studies In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism she was forced to quit her studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna (Leaving Certificate ('Abgangszeugnis') was issued on March 30^th, 1938). Her elder sister Gertrud Bindermann, who studied at the Philosophical School, was also expelled from the University of Vienna. They had to flee from Vienna with their family - their father, who had received his doctorate in law from the University of Vienna in 1906 and had worked as a lawyer in Vienna since 1919, lost his license to practice law in 1938 for racist reasons and had to close his office in Vienna's 1^st district, Hohenstaufengasse 9.
On November 6^th, 1938, the family was able to emigrate to England/Great Britain and lived in London, where her parents opened a boarding house in 110, Greencroft Gardens in London N.W. 6, and Hedwig Bindermann worked there as a dietetic assistant and her sister as an unpaid domestic. Hedwig was not interned as an "enemy alien" after the beginning of World War II and moved to 1 Graffton Terrace in Hampstead, London, and in spring 1940 she got married to George W. Burger in Bristol and they lived and worked in England. Irene Hedi Burger, née Irene Hedwig Bindermann, deceased in January 1979 in Hammersmith (Greater London), England/Great Britain.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 362; SAUER/REITER-ZATLOUKAL 2010, 92; www.ancestry.de.

Herbert Posch