Franz Fischer

Born:	01-30-1889
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Franz FISCHER (born on 30^th, 1889 in Rokitzen, Bohemia/Austro-Hungarian Empire [Rokycany, Tschechien]), had graduated at the Medical School at the University of Vienna on April 22^nd, 1913 with the academic degree 'Dr. med.'. In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on July 14^th, 1942 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 13 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 registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") MED 1912–1919 Nr. 262, Rectorate GZ 118/67 ex 1941/4 and GZ 561/15 ex 1944/45; POSCH 2009, 409f.; POSCH/STADLER 2005; DÖW 6813.

Herbert Posch