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Georg Joseph Kien

Born: 05-10-1913
Faculty: Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category: Expelled teacher
Georg Joseph KIEN (born on May 10th, 1903 in Vienna was in 1938 employed as an unpaid assistant doctor ("Hilfsarzt ohne Stipendium") at the urological station of the  II. surgical universict-clinic (head: Prof. Denk) at the Medical School of the University of Vienna. He was persecuted in times of Nazism for racist reason as a Jew, lost his position and was forced to leave the university in April 1938. He had to flee from Austria and could emigrate to USA. >>> more detailled biography only in German - to be translated soon

He deceased on December 1st 1986 in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA.


Lit.: Vienna University Archive/Medical School graduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") 1929-1941, ONr. 672, Rectorate GZ 677 ex 1937/38, ONr. 91, GZ 680 ex 1937/38; WStLA/Historische Meldekartei; ÖStA/AdR/BMF/NHF 33372, AHF 16988 u. Abgf 8917; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer Vienna 11/2017 and 07/2019; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022; www.ancestry.de.


Herbert Posch


Georg Josef Kien, medical school graduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") from February 3rd, 1932, © Archive of the University of Vienna

Georg Josef Kien, certificate of dismissal, June 3rd, 1938, © Archive of the University of Vienna

Georg Josef Kien, licence to practice, 1942
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