Rudolf Schneeweis

Born:	09-05-1879
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Rudolf SCHNEEWEIS (born on September 5th, 1879 in Bielitz, Silesia (Bielsko-Biala, Poland)), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on July 22nd, 1902 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'. He worked as an advocate in Vienna from 1909 to 1919, afterwards until 1939 in Steyr/Upper Austria and was a member of the regional bar associations. In times of Nazism he was persecuted and excluded from the association. He emigrates to London/Great Britain. 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'). It took 62 years since the deprivation – and a very long time since the end of Nazism – until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on April 10th, 2003 posthumously in a solemn ceremony. Lit.: POSCH/STADLER 2005