Hermann Schneeweiß

Born:	07-10-1872
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Hermann SCHNEEWEIß (born on July 10th, 1872 in Bielitz, Silesia (Bielsko-Biala, Poland)), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on July 24th, 1897 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'.
In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on th, 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 68 years since the deprivation - and a very long time since the end of Nazism - until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place in 2008.