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Hermann Hundert

Born: 08-25-1909
Faculty: Law School
Category: Deprivation of academic degree
Hermann HUNDERT (born on August 25th, 1909 in Horodenka, Galicia (Horodenka, Ukraine), entiteled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna, died on September 25th, 1942 in KZ Auschwitz [Oswiecim/Poland]), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on July 16th, 1934 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'.
In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on February 28th, 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 unwürdig').
It took 13 years since the deprivation - and a very long time since the end of Nazism - until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on May 15th, 1955.
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