Rolf Singer

Born:	06-23-1906
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Rolf SINGER (born on June 23^rd, 1906 in Schliersee), had graduated at the Philosophical School at the University of Vienna in Botany on December 22nd, 1931 with the academic degree 'Dr. phil.' (dissertation: 'Monografie der Gattung Russula [gedruckt in: Beih.z.Botan.Centralbl., Bd. 49, Abt. II, 1932]'). In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on June 20^th, 1940 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 15 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 15^th, 1955.

Lit: Archive of the University of Vienna: "Nationale", PHIL promotion records.

Herbert Posch