Johann Felix Klappholz (Jarociński)
| Born: |
11-11-1917 |
| Faculty: |
Philosophical School |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Johann Felix KLAPPHOLZ (later: JAROCIŃSKI), born on November 11
th, 1917 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna, citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Dr. iur. Felix Klappholz (1879-1943, lawyer) and Irene Klappholz, née. Jarocińska (1897-1943), lived in Vienna's 4
th district, Gusshausstrasse 19, was last enrolled in the spring term of 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 3
rd year of his studies and attended lectures in chemistry.
Johann Klappholz was baptized Roman Catholic, but according to National-Socialist blood laws he was considered a Jew and after the "Anschluss" he was forced to quit his studies and to leave the University of Vienna for racist reasons.
His mother had left the Jewish Community at the end of 1916, his father in 1900. His father had received his doctorate in law from the University of Vienna in 1904 and had been registered as a lawyer in Vienna since 1912 with a law firm partnership with Dr. Ernst and Dr. Friedrich Bunzl in Vienna's 1
st district, Naglergasse 6 - he was removed from the list of lawyers for racist reasons in 1938. He and his wife lived fianally in Vienna's 1
st district, Opernring 11 and were still able to emigrate to Łódź, the birthplace of his wife, in early 1939, which was occupied by the German Reich soon after. Both were shot on May 23
rd, 1943 during a raid in Białołęka Dworska near Warsaw [Warszawa]/Poland.
Whether Johann Klappholz emigrated to Poland with his parents and how he was able to escape Nazi persecution there, or what other way he found to survive National Socialism is not known at present.
In any case, he took his mother's surname and returned to Vienna as Johann Felix Jarociński some time after the end of National Socialism: in 1960 he was living as a clerk in Vienna's 19
th district, Boschstrasse 24/4/7.
He had not been able to complete his studies under the conditions of emigration, deportation and murder of his parents, neither in emigration nor after his return to Austria. An application for compensation for his parents to the Settlement Fund in Vienna shows that his parents had last lived in a Jewish collective apartment and were not officially declared dead until December 31
st, 1948 by the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Matters with the date of death May 23
rd, 1943. It was not until 1959 that the estate could be closed after his parents.
Johann Felix Jarociński, née Klappholz, died in Vienna in January 1988 and is buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery in the grave of his grandmother and uncle.
Lit: Archive of the University of Vienna/National PHIL 1937/38; Austrian State Archives OeStA/ AdR/ E-uReang/ Hilfsfonds/ Abgeltungsfonds 143, OeStA/ AdR/ E-uReang/ AHF J Jarocinski Jan, OeStA/ AdR/ E-uReang/ VVSt/ VA/ 20165, OeStA/ AdR/ E-uReang/ FLD 10755; SAUER/REITER-ZATLOUKAL 2010, 201; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 12/2021; find a grave in Vienna; www.genteam.at; www.ancestry.de; www.findbuch.at; DOeW|Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, database Austrian Victims of the Holocaust; Yad Vashem | Shoah Victims' Names.
Herbert Posch
