Ernestine Anna Weinschel

Born:	08-04-1908
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled student

DDr. iur. et rer. pol. Dr. Ernestine Anna WEINSCHEL, born on August 4^th, 1908 in Zimnawoda, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [later: Zimna Woda/Poland, today: Symna Woda Зимна Вода/Ukraine] (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Elias Weinschel (merchant, 1872-1942) and Hencie Weinschel (1866-1942), lived in Vienna's 1^st district, Rathausstrasse 8, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 2^nd year of her studies and took courses in psychology and anthropology. She had converted from Judaism to Catholicism on July 22^nd, 1937, but was forced anway to abandon her studies for racist reasons under National Socialism after the "Anschluss". In the spring term of 1938, she was first admitted to continue her studies until the end of the term under the numerus clausus for Jewish students, but was foced to leave the University of Vienna for good after a few weeks. Before studying psychology and anthropology, Ernestine Anna Weinschel had already earned a doctorate in law on June 10th, 1932, and a doctorate in political science on July 9^th, 1936 (dissertation: "The Nature of Dictatorship" submitted on July 13^th, 1934, approved on December 5^th, 1935, supervised by Prof. Adolf Julius Merkl and Prof. Ludwig Adamovich) and worked as a trainee lawyer in her brother's law firm from July 1933 to April 1937. Her older brother DDDr.iur. et rer.pol. et phil. Moses/Herbert Weinschel (b. 1902), who had received his doctorate in law from the University of Vienna in 1925, had already opened his law firm at the address they shared in 1933. While he succeeds in emigrating to the USA in the middle of 1940, Ernestine Anna Weinschel does not manage to do so. She and her parents had already lost their apartment and she last lived in Vienna's 9^th district, Porzellangasse 60/12. From there she was deported to Izbica/Poland on May 12^th, 1942 and murdered. A few months later, her parents Elias and Hencie Weinschel, who last lived in the Jewish Home for the Aged in Vienna's 9^th district, Seegasse 9, were also deported from there to Theresienstadt on August 27^th, 1942 and transferred from there to the extermination camp Treblika on September 29^th, 1942 and murdered.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; graduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") IUR 1924-1939 no. 2365, graduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") Staatswissenschaften 1919-1964 no. 920; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 497; SAUER/REITER-ZATLOUKAL 2010, 358; OLECHOWSKI/EHS/STAUDIGL-CIECHOWIC 2014, 198, 213f.; DOeW|Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, database Austrian Victims of the Holocaust; Yad Vashem | Shoah Victims' Names; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 04/2021.

Herbert Posch