Otto Stern

Born:	12-05-1896
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Otto STERN, born on December 5th, 1896 in Linz/Upper Austria, had graduated at the Philosophical School at the University of Vienna in Chemistry on July 25th, 1921 with the academic degree 'Dr. phil.' (dissertation: 'Zur Methylierung der Eiweißstoffe'). In September 1921 he moved back to his native city Linz. 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 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 January 1st, 1964. Lit.: POSCH/STADLER 2005.