Kurt Kantor
| Born: |
09-07-1918 |
| Faculty: |
Law School |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Kurt KANTOR, born on September 7
th, 1918 in Vienna (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Dr. med. Richard Kantor (1886-1954, physician, dermatologist) and Felicia Kantor, née Halpern (b. 1893), lived in Vienna's 6
th district, Getreidemarkt 1. In 1937, he graduated from high school (he passed the "Matura"/"Reifenpruefung") at the Bundesgymnasium in Vienna's 8
th district (Albertgasse) and began his studies of law at the university in the fall of 1937. He was enrolled finally in spring term 1938 at the Law School in the 1
st 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 was able to leave Vienna together with his parents on November 8
th, 1938 shortly before the "Reichspogromnacht". His father, the dermatologist Dr. Richard Kantor (1886-1954), who had received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910, had a practice next to the apartment in Vienna 6, Getreidemarkt 1, and in Sept. 1938 was still licensed under the National Socialist regime as a "specialist treatment provider only for Jews" (skin and venereal diseases). The family arrived in England (Dover) via Belgium with the
Belgian State Railway and from there with the steamship
Duchess of Bedford of the
Canadian Pacific Steamship Line from Liverpool (England) via Quebec and Montreal (Canada) to Australia, where they lived in Sydney from December 1938 on. They became British/Australian citizens at the end of 1944. Kurt Kantor became an accountant and continued to live with his widowed mother in a shared household in Woollahra, Sydney, after the death of his father in 1954, at least until 1968.
Kurt Kantor probably died in 1975 in Sydney, Australia.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") IUR 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 412; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 12/2020; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022.
Herbert Posch
