Viktor Altmann

Born:	03-07-1900
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Viktor ALTMANN (born on March 7^th, 1900 in Vienna/Austro-Hungarian Empire), had graduated at the Philosophical School of the University of Vienna in Philosophy on July 22^nd, 1925 with the academic degree "Dr. phil." (dissertation: "Die paedagogischen Fragen der Jugendgerichtsbarkeit"). 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/graduation register ("Promotionsprotokoll") PHIL 1922–1931 No. 757, Rekcorate GZ 151 ex 1942/43, GZ 561 ex 1944/45 ONo. 15; Deutscher Reichsanzeiger No. 198 from August 25^th, 1942; POSCH 2009, 386; Heinz LUNZER and Victoria LUNZER-TALOS, Joseph Roth im Exil in Paris 1933 bis 1939, Vienna 2008, 211; Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online, wikipedia.

Herbert Posch