Loti Breindler

Born:	03-28-1914
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Loti BREINDLER, born on March 28th, 1914 in Sniatyn/Poland [Ukraine] (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Theodor Breindler (textile merchant), lived in Wien 2, Wohlmutstraße 8/4, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Medical School in the 5th and last year of her studies. She had already passed the first Rigorosum (final examination) with certificates in biology and physics (1933), chemistry (1934), physiology (1935), anatomy and histology (1936).
A look in her student identification ("Meldungsbuch") gives an impression about the increasing process of administrative exclusion, that accompanied the more violent forms of perpetration: in the beginning she could inscribe to her last courses, after the so called "Anschluss" no more attend the lecture room, then neglected to finish her studies a one of the few in the very quick established numerus clausus for jewish students, a part of the student fees was returned, the term was cancelled. On June 27th, 1938 she was finally handed in a leaving certificate ("Abgangszeugnis"), without being allowed to apply for the second and third rigorosum. She had to leave the university without a chance to finish her medical studies. She was able to emigrate to Great Britain, but in London the certificates and diplomas were declared incompatible to British academic rules and she didn't have the opportunities to finalize her nearly finished medical studies under the conditions of emigration and worked as a dentist's assistant.

Lit.: information by her son Daniel Agdern, Paris 2012.

Herbert Posch