Friedrich Flandrak
| Born: |
06-16-1893 |
| Faculty: |
Law School |
| Category: |
Deprivation of academic degree |
Friedrich FLANDRAK (born on June 16
th, 1893 in Vienna, died in 1944/45 in KZ Auschwitz [Oświęcim/Poland]), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on July 9
th, 1917 with the academic degree 'Dr. phil.' and on December 20
th, 1935 with the academic degree 'Dr.rer.pol.' and he had also graduated at the Philosophical School at the University of Vienna on March 29
th, 1920 with the academic degree 'Dr. phil.' in History (dissertation: 'Römische Wirte und Wirtshaeuser').
He was married to Hedwig Flandrak, née Mosczisker (b. May 3
rd, 1900 in Vienna) and in 1931 their son Hans Bernhard Flandrak was born. Friedrich Flandrak was enrolled in the Vienna List of Attorneys in 1934 and opened a law firm in Vienna 7
th, Mariahilfer Strasse 74a.
After the "Anschluss" he was persecuted for racist reasons. He had to flee and managed to emigrate to Switzerland and later to France in June 1938.
With an announcement in the newspaper "Deutscher Reichsanzeiger" of August 30
th, 1941, he and his wife Hedwig Flandrak, née Mosczisker, were forcibly expatriated from the German Reich. When their citizenship was revoked, they became stateless and their assets were confiscated by the German Reich.
In times of Nazism he was therefor deprived of his three academic degrees on July 17
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 unwuerdig").
He was arrested in southern France and imprisoned in the Drancy camp near Paris and deported from there on February 3
rd, 1944, with Transport No. 67 to the Auschwitz concentration camp [Oświęcim/Poland]. He did not survive.
It took 13 years since the deprivation – and a very long time since the end of Nazism – until the post mortem regranting of the three doctorates finally took place on May 15
th, 1955.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/graduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") PHIL 1913-1922 Nr. 898, IUR 1915-1919, Nr. 371, IUR/STAATSWISS. 1919-1964 Nr. 942, rectorate GZ 118 ex 1941/42, GZ 561 ex 1944/45 ONr. 15; Deutscher Reichsanzeiger Nr. 202 from August 30th, 1941; POSCH 2009, 269, 410; SAUER/REITER-ZATLOUKAL 2010, 134f.; OLECHOWSKI/EHS/STAUDIGL-CIECHOWIC 2014, 211.
Herbert Posch
