Josef (Leopold) Citron
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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