Erwin Hacker

Born:	12-17-1913
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Expelled student

Erwin HACKER, born on December 17^th, 1913 in Wiener Neustadt/Lower Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Wiener Neustadt/Lower Austria, Citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Josef Hacker (1879-1947, merchant) and Adelheid Hacker (1878-1949), lived in Vienna's 8^th district, Zeltgasse 3. In the summer of 1932, he passed the school-leaving examination (Reifepruefung/Matura) at the Bundesreformrealgymnasium VIII (Vienna's 8^th district, Albertgasse 39) and subsequently began to study law at the University of Vienna in the fall term of 1932/33. After a two-years break in 1934-1936, he was last enrolled at the Law School in the spring term of 1938 in the 4^th and last year of his studies. In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism he was forced to quit his studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna. He had to flee Vienna and was able to emigrate to Great Britain in time with his parents and brother Robert (b. 1910) in 1939. In England they first lived in Finchley, Middlesex and in spring 1949 he married Miriam Riwlin (1926-1988) in Paddington, London. Erwin HACKER died in September 1994 in London, England/Great Britain.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") IUR 1933-1938; The National Archives Kew, London/HO 396 WW2 Internees (Aliens) Index Cards 1939-1947 HO 396/32, Register for England &Wales/RG 101/764F; General Register Office U.K./Deathindex & Marriageindex England & Wales; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 399.

Herbert Posch