Hans Tauber

Hans TAUBER, born on August 10^th, 1913 in Vienna/Austro-Hungarian empire [Austria] (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Alfred Tauber (1881-?, merchant) and Martha Tauber, née Pollak (1889-?), lived in Vienna's 18^th district, Bastiengasse 75, was last enrolled in the fall term 1937/38 at the Medical School in the 3^rd year of his studies.

In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism he was forced to quit his studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna.

Under National Socialism, he was forced to drop out of his studies and leave the University of Vienna after the Anschluss for racist reasons.
Hans Tauber was arrested in Vienna on May 31^st, 1938, and deported to the Dachau concentration camp in Bavaria, where he was given the prisoner number 9884 on June 3^rd, 1938, and then deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp on September 24^th, 1938. After a total of 10 months in the camp, he was released on April 14^th, 1939, on the condition that he leave the country within two weeks. He had to flee Vienna quickly and managed to emigrate to England with the help of the emigration department of the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG), where he was living with his parents in Porchester Street, Paddington, London, when the census was taken at the end of September 1939. On April 1^st, he managed to obtain his US visa at the London U.S. Embassy, whereupon he emigrated to the USA on the SS Scythia on April 6^th, 1940, arriving in New York, NY, on April 17^th, where his brother Kurt Tauber was already living - his brother Walter Tauber stayed behind in London for the time being.

Hans Tauber died on October 30^th, 1994, in New York/USA.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937–1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 488; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2025; information by courtesy of Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 10/2023.

Herbert Posch