Karl Hirschel

Born:	10-27-1883
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Karl HIRSCHEL (born on October 27th, 1883 in Vienna), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna  on November 14th, 1907 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'.

After the "Anschluss" he emigrated to California/USA.
In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on July 17th, 1942 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').  

Karl Hirschel died in February 1964.
It took 66 years since the deprivation – and a very long time since the end of Nazism – until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place in 2008 (posthumously).

Lit.: sysoon.com.