| Born: | 12-26-1919 |
| Faculty: | Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Elisabeth HILD (married: HOPFER), born on December 26th, 1919 in Hermagor, Carinthia/Austria, (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), daughter of Siegfried Hild (bank director, accountant) and Anna Hild, née Wester, (1882-?), lived in Vienna's 8th district, Lenaugasse 10. She graduated from the Realgymnasium Wien 7, Neustiftgasse 95-97, in 1937 and began to study medicine at the Medical School of the University of Vienna in the in the fall term of 1937/38. In the psring term of 1938 she was enrolled at the Medical School in the 1st year of her studies.
She was discriminated as a so called "half-breed" ("Mischling") and during the National Socialist era was only able to continue her studies provisionally for racist reasons, subject to revocation at any time, but ultimately could not graduate, although she had successfully passed all the required examinations (Leaving Certificate ("Abgangszeugnis") issued on February 1st, 1943).
Only immediately after the end of Nazi rule was she able to obtain her doctorate on June 8th, 1945, with her diploma backdated to February 16th, 1944, the date on which she had fulfilled all doctoral requirements except for proof of pure "Aryan racial affiliation" (in National-Socialist terms).
She married Franz Hopfer, MD (1917-1996), in Vienna-Mariahilf in 1947 and lived and worked as a physician in Vienna. Her son Gerhard (1955-1990) also became a physician.
Dr. Elisabeth Hopfer, née Hild, died on October 24th, 1996 in Vienna and is buried at Neustift Cemetery in Vienna's 18th district.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937-1944, MED graduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") M 33.14 (1942-1949), No. 1235; Roman Catholic parish Hermagor/Baptismal register XI, fol. 174.
Herbert Posch
