Josef (Leopold) Citron

Born:
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Josef (Leopold) CITRON (born 1885 in Lipnik, Galizien), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on February 25^th, 1910 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'. In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on September 11^th, 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 15^th, 1955.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/registry of graduations ("Promotionsprotokoll") IUR 1908-1911 Nr. 783, Rectorate GZ 151/66 ex 1942/43 = S 127.9, Rectorate GZ 561 ex 1944/45; DOeW 6813; POSCH 2009, 402; POSCH/STADLER 2005.

Herbert Posch