Norbert (Nathan) Tischler

Born:	10-05-1879
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Norbert (Nathan) TISCHLER (born on October 5th, 1879 in Przemysl, Galicia/Austro-Hungaria (Przemysl, Poland), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on February 6th, 1903 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'. He worked as an advocate and was a member of the Vienna bar association from 1910 to 1938. In times of Nazism he emigrated from Austria in 1939 and 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'). At this point of time he resided in Mexico. 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, SAUER/REITER-ZATLOUKAL 2010, 345; Auskunft Meldearchiv; ÖStA VA 854; ÖStA Hilfsfonds, Archiv der Universität Wien RA 1416 ex 1939/40.

Herbert Posch