Franz Blumenfeld

Born:	04-05-1910
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Expelled student

Dkfm. Dr. merc. Franz BLUMENFELD, born on April 5^th, 1910 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of David Blumenfeld and Malvine Blumenfeld, née Grossmann (marriage dissolved on June 20^th, 1910), remarried Stroebl (stepfather: Franz Stroebl, finanial civil servant, captain a.D.), lieved in Vienna's 11^thSchool district, Lorystrasse 38/7. Franz Blumenfeld had attended the Commercial Academy of the Viennese Merchants' Association ("Handelsakademie der Wiener Kaufmannschaft"), where he passed the school-leaving examination (Matura), and after passing the supplementary examination for secondary schools (Realgymnasien), he studied economics at the Hochschule für Welthandel in Vienna [Wirtschaftsuniveristät Wien], where he obtained the academic degrees of "Dkfm." and "Dr. merc. and in the spring term of 1935/36 he took the course for book auditors at the Hochschule für Welthandel. From the fall term of 1937/38 on, he studied law at the Law School of the University of Vienna and was last enrolled in the 1^st year of his studies in the spring term of 1938. After the "Anschluss" in March 1938, he was allowed to continue his studies for at least two months in the spring term of 1938 within the framework of the 2% numerus clausus for Jewish students, but was then forced to abandon his studies for good for racist reasons and had to leave the University of Vienna (he had left the Jewish Community in April 1930 and converted to the Protestant H. B., but was persecuted under National Socialism as a "Jew"). He managed to escape from Austria in 1938 in time to emigrate to France, but was arrested there after the German occupation of France and interned in the Drancy camp.
On June 7^th/10^th, 1941, he was deprived of his German citizenship by the Third Reich - which meant not only statelessness but also the expropriation of all property in favor of the Third Reich and the loss of all academic degrees. He was deported from camp Drancy/France to extermination camp Auschwitz [Oświęcim/Poland] on November 4^th, 1942 where he was murdered. The exact date of his death is not known, but he was officially declared dead in 1947 as of November 4^th, 1942. His name is mentioned on the Mémorial de la Shoah Paris (2005), in the Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938 (2009), and on the Shoah Name Wall Memorial Vienna (2021).

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") IUR 1937-1938; Deutscher Reichsanzeiger Nr. 132 from June 10, 1941; Wiener Zeitung from December 19, 1946, 5; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 366; DOEW 2001; Yad Vashem | Shoah Victims' Names, cited there: Le Memorial de la deportation des juifs de France, Beate et Serge Klarsfeld, Paris 1978; www.genteam.at.

Herbert Posch