Hans Holzer

Born:	01-26-1920
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled student

Hans HOLZER, born on January 26^th, 1920 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Leo Holzer (master tailor) and Martha Holzer (née Stransky), lived in Vienna's 13^th district, Auhofstrasse 116/2 ans started to study history and classical archeology in fall term 1937/38. He was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 1^st year of his studies and took courses in History. 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. Hans Holzer was able to emigrate to the USA with his family and studied Japanese Studies at Columbia University and later Comparative Religion and Parapsychology, where he - according to his own statements - earned a doctorate at the London College of Applied Science.
Hans Holzer became a famous author and paraspychologist who wrote over 120 books on the occult and supernatural, as well as theatre, film and musical screenplays (e.g.: Amityville Horror) and he hosted his own television show ("Ghost Hunter"). He married Catherine Buxhoeveden in 1962, from the later divorced marriage came two children.

Hans Holzer taught parapsychology at the New York Institute of Technology and died on April 6^th, 2009 in New York City, New York, USA.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 407; wikipedia.

Herbert Posch