Alfred Spitzer

Born:	11-18-1888
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Alfred SPITZER (born on November 18th, 1888 in Teschen/Poland), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on May 17th, 1912 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'. In 1936 he worked as an advocate in Hamburg/Germany. In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on May 8th, 1941 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