Alfred Bernhard Alexander

Born:	04-30-1909
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Alfred Bernhard ALEXANDER was born on April 30^th, 1909 in Vienna as son of Dr. Gustav Alexander (1863-1940) and Bertha Alexander (geb 1872). He had graduated at the Medical School at the University of Vienna on February 24^th, 1933 with the academic degree 'Dr. med.'. He lived in Vienna's 8th district, Skodagasse 15/9 and and worked as demonstrator and assistant doctor ("Hilfsarzt") at the university clinic for otolaryngology in the Central Hospital of Vienna until 1938. After the "Anschluss" he had to leave te clinic and looses is grants. He could emigrate to Great Britain and later to the USA. Because of this he was deprived of his citizenship on May 24^th, 1941. He was also deprived of his academic degree on July 14^th, 1942 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').   It took 13 years since the deprivation – and a very long time since the end of Nazism – until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on May 15^th, 1955. Alfred Alexander deceased on June 13^th, 1983 in the USA.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/RA GZ 118 ex 1941/42 No 28, GZ 561 ex 1944/45 No 15; Deutscher Reichsanzeiger No 119 from May 24^th; POSCH 2009, 386; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022, 1941; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 2016; www.geni.com.

Herbert Posch