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Viktor Egon Fleischmann

Born: 08-22-1887
Faculty: Law School
Category: Deprivation of academic degree
Viktor Egon FLEISCHMANN (born on August 22nd, 1887 in Tulln, Lower Austria, the son of Leopold Fleischmann (1859-1923, merchant, soap manufacturer) and Anna Nina Fleischmann, née Freund (born 1861), died on December 27th, 1940 in Dachau), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on June 7th, 1915 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'. Fleischmann, who was active as an entrepreneur in the fields of chemical works, soap production and brush wholesale, lived in Vienna's 8th district, Breitenfeldergasse 17/20 and had married Marie Kalich in July 1924. He had to file for bankruptcy in January 1931 and the marriage was legally divorced at the end of October 1932. In 1938 he stated that he was a margarine wholesaler. After the Anschluss on April 12th, 1938, Viktor Egon Fleischmann had left the Jewish Community of Vienna and converted to the Roman Catholic faith. In August 1939, the Regional Court for Criminal Matters informed the University of Vienna that preliminary investigations were being conducted against Viktor Ludwig Fleischmann as a Jew for "Rassenschande" and whether his statements were true that he had studied medicine (surgery), philosophy and law at the University of Vienna (in the event of a conviction, one of the legal consequences would be the revocation of his academic degree). The University of Vienna immediately confirmed that he had only been awarded the degree of Dr. iur. However, it is no longer informed about the further course of the proceedings and the conviction. Viktor Egon Fleischmann was sentenced to one year in prison on January 23rd, 1940, under the "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor." After the end of his imprisonment, however, he was not released but was taken into "protective custody" on August 31st, 1940 and deported to the concentration camp Dachau, Bavaria, where he barely survived the prison conditions for four months and died on December 27th, 1940. At the end of December 1941, the University of Vienna asked the court whether a conviction had been handed down at the time. After the announcement of the conviction and unaware of his death, the University of Vienna deprived him of his doctoral degree on January 27th, 1942, as a legal consequence of the conviction under the Nazi blood protection laws. It was only during the investigation of his current address, to which the deprivation could be sent, that the University of Vienna learned from the Vienna Police Headquarters that he had already died more than a year ago in Dachau. Presumably for this reason, the revocation, which had already been posted on the notice board, was not specifically noted in the doctoral transcript.


Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/Promotionsprotokoll IUR 1911-1915 No. 1411, Rectorate GZ 1252 ex 1938/39; Archive of the Jewish Community Vienna, Birth and Marriage Matrices; POSCH 2009, 222, 275, 410f.; Official Gazette of the Wiener Zeitung of 31 January 1931.


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