Leo Allerhand

Born:	01-16-1889
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Leo ALLERHAND (born on 16th, 1889 in Vienna), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on July 16th, 1912 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'.
He lived in Brno, Czecoslovakia and was able to emigrate in 1938, presumably to Montevideo (Uruguay). In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on April 1st, 1943 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 unwuerdig'). It took 12 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 15th, 1955.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna, Rectorate GZ 151 ex 1942/43 (= S 127.9), Rectorate GZ 561 ex 1944/45; graduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") IUR 1911-1915 Nr. 371; POSCH 2009, 386.

Herbert Posch