Albert Hans Fuchs

Born:	10-25-1905
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Albert Hans FUCHS (born on October 25th, 1905 in Vienna, died on November 29th, 1946 in Vienna), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on January 31st, 1929 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'.
In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on May 8th, 1941 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 62 years since the deprivation - and a very long time since the end of Nazism - until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on April 10th, 2003 posthumously in a solemn ceremony.
He was a journalist, writer, historian and lawyer, a disciple of Hans Kelsen. He was co-organizer of the 'Hilfsstelle für deutsche EmigrantInnen' in Vienna. He emigriert to Czechoslovakia in April 1938 and later to London. In the exile he wrote the important book 'Geistige Strömungen in Österreich 1867-1918'. He was a member of the austrian Communists in Great Britain. Since 1942 he took part in the cultural work of the 'Free Austrian Movement'. In autumn 1946 he returned to Vienna but dies only short after his return.

Lit.: Hans Albert FUCHS, Ein Sohn aus gutem Haus. (Autobiographie), London 1943; Hans Albert FUCHS, Geistige Strömungen in Österreich 1867-1918. Wien 1946 [Neuauflage Wien 1984]; Ulrich WEINZIERL, Albert Hans Fuchs (1905-1946). Ein Intellektueller im Exil, in: Helmut Konrad u. Wolfgang Neugebauer, Hg., Arbeiterbewegung - Faschismus - Nationalbewußtsein, Wien, München u. Zürich 1983, 315-30; POSCH/STADLER 2005.