Marianne (Ruth) Ausch
| Born: |
05-21-1918 |
| Faculty: |
Philosophical School |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Marianne AUSCH, born on May 21
st, 1918 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Dr. Richard Ausch (1879-1945, dentist) and Mela Ausch, nee Fried (1886-1925). Marianne Ausch lived with her stepmother Fritzi (nee Brunner, widowed Brach, born 1897) and her father in Vienna's 7
th district, Mariahilfer Strasse 62, where her father also had his dentist's surgery.
She had graduated from highschool in 1936 (Maedchen-Realgymnasium Vienna's 6
th district, Linke Wienzeile 4) and enrolled at the Philosophical School of the University of Vienna in fall term 1937/38 to study German language and literature Studies, Pedagogics and Psychology. She was finally enrolled in spring term 1938 and after the "Anschluss" she requested to continue her studies in the context of the Numerus clausus of Jewish Students, but was rejected and was forced to leave Vienna University.
While her father could emigrate to Sydney/Australia in the end of 1938, Marianne Ruth Ausch could escape Nazi Austria in 1938 and went to England. She could not continue her academixcstudies but became a respected nursery school headmistress in Bristol at Springwoods Nursery School (today: Early Years Bannerman Road school).
She died in March 1977.
Lit.: POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 356; Archive of the University of Vienna/Enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; information from Ms. Ruth Rolle, GB 2016; information from Dr.in Barbara Sauer, 10/2016; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022; www.geni.com.
Herbert Posch
