Paul Schneeberger

Born:	09-16-1894
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Paul SCHNEEBERGER (born on September 16th, 1894 in Vienna), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on June 23rd, 1919 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'. He worked as a jurist and journalist. In times of Nazism he was persecuted and he emigrated to France or the Netherlands in April 1938. On May 8th, 1941, he was deprived of his academic degree 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'). After 1945 Paul Schneeberger worked as a sports journalist in Germany. It took 23 years since the deprivation – and a very long time since the end of Nazism – until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on February 10th, 1964. Lit.: POSCH/STADLER 2005.