| Born: | 08-06-1900 |
| Faculty: | Law School |
| Category: | Deprivation of academic degree |
Eduard FUCHS (later FULTON), born on August 6th, 1900 in Innsbruck/Tyrol as the son of Leopold Fuchs (1866-1928) and his wife Lilly, nee Koenigsbacher, later Fulton (born in 1875), lived with his parents in Museumstrasse 6 in Innsbruck, where his father ran a jeweler's shop, in 1919/20 for one year in Munich/Germany and until the end of his law studies at the University of Vienna alternately in Vienna and Innsbruck. He had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on March 22nd, 1927 with the academic degree 'Dr. rer.pol.'.
After finishing his studies Eduard Fuchs returned to Innsbruck and took over the shop of his father, who died in 1928. He engaged himself for the Jewish community in Innsbruck, was elected member of its council in 1931 and became its secretary in 1935. Together with his wife Sara, their daughter Wally and his mother they lived in Museumstrasse 6.
After the "Anschluss" Fuchs was arrested in the police prison in Innsbruck in September 1938 for several days and the jeweler's shop was "aryanized" by SS-Oberscharfuehrer Ludwig Duftner in October. During the November pogrome (("Kristallnacht") the family's apartment was entered by force and depredated and Eduard Fuchs was injured. They fled from the city, at first to Vienna, where they were relocated on March 31st, 1939. Eduard Fuchs was deported to concentration camp Dachau.
By the end of 1939 he was able to flee from the persecution of the National Socialist regime and together with his family emigrated to the USA in May 1940, where he settled in New York and changed his name to "Fulton".
On April 1st, 1943 he was deprived of his academic degree 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 15th, 1955.
Lit.: Hohenems Genealogy - Jewish Family Research in Vorarlberg and Tyrol; Sites of the Novemberpogrom 1938 in Innsbruck.
