Heinrich Engelberg

Born:	04-04-1909
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Heinrich ENGELBERG (born on April 4th, 1909 in Storozynetz, Bukowina [Storozhinets/Ukraine], entiteled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna), had graduated at the Philosophical School at the University of Vienna in Chemistry on July 20th, 1934 with the academic degree 'Dr. phil.' (dissertation: 'Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Kunstharze sowie über Silberkomplexverbindungen einiger Anästhetica').
In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on th, 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 66 years since the deprivation - and a very long time since the end of Nazism - until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place in 2008.