Julius Erich Klinger

Born:	12-21-1904
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Julius Erich KLINGER (born on December 21st, 1904 in Vienna), son of Dr. Norbert (1865-1941, lawyer) and Seraphine Klinger (1871-1943), studied at the Law School at the University of Vienna from 1923 to 1929 and had graduated   on December 20th, 1927 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'. He worked as an advocate since 1934, had his lawyer's office together with his father Dr. Norbert Klinger in the 1st district of Vienna at Schottenring 9 and was a member of the bar association of Lower Austria. On October 14, 1936 he married Charlotte Haftel recte Kornblüh (divorced Morgenstern) from Lemberg/Poland [Lwiw/Ukraine]. In times of Nazism (1938) he was excluded from the bar association and emigrated to Breward in North Carolina, USA, in 1939. On May 8th, 1941, he was deprived of his academic degree 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 62 years since the deprivation – and a very long time since the end of Nazism – until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on April 10th, 2003 posthumously in a solemn ceremony. He deceased in January 1984 in New York/USA, his wife Charlotte in 2006. Lit.: POSCH/STADLER 2005; SAUER/REITER-ZATLOUKAL 2010, 204; GAUGUSCH 2011, 1423ff.; geni; information from Susanne Pils, Vienna 2017; obituary Charlotte Klinger in the NY Times.

Herbert Posch