Otto Sokal

Born:	06-05-1882
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Otto SOKAL (born on June 5th, 1882 in Czernowitz/Romania [Tscherniwzi/Ukraine]), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on June 7th, 1912 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'.
In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on July 17th, 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.