Leon Schapira

Born:	04-18-1898
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Leon SCHAPIRA (born on April 18th, 1898 in Husyatin, Galizien (Gusyatin, Ukraine)), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on November 18th, 1924 with the academic degree 'Dr. rer.pol.'.
In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on February 28th, 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 unwürdig').
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 15th, 1955.