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Hubert Paul Leopold Fanta

Born: 09-08-1905
Faculty: Law School
Category: Deprivation of academic degree
Hubert Paul Leopold FANTA (born on September 8th, 1905 in Retz, NÖ), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on June 21st, 1929 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'.
In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on October 3rd, 1944 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 11 years since the deprivation - and a very long time since the end of Nazism - until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on July 4th, 1955.
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