Franz Kral

Born:	09-09-1909
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled teacher

Franz KRAL (born on September 9^th, 1909 in Vienna/Austria) was assistant doctor ("Hilfsarzt mit Stipendium") at the university clinic of syphilidology and dermatology (head: Prof. Wilhelm Kerl) at the Medical School of the University of Vienna. He had studied medicine at the University of Vienna (last examination on April 24^th, 1931), graduated there on June 8^th, 1934 and earned the academic degree "Dr.med.univ.". Since March 1^st 1936 he was salaried as assistant doctor ("Hilfsarzt mit Stipendium"). He was persecuted in times of Nazism for racist reason as a Jew, first ha was suspended in mid of March 1938, then lost his position and was discharged per end of April 1938 and was forced to leave the university. He had to flee from Austria and could emigrate to New Zealand, although physicians there were rather hostile to doctors from Germany and Austria. Besides this he was able to live and soon also work as a physician there. He died on November 30^th, 1969 in New Zealand.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna: Rectorate GZ 680 ex 1937/38, GZ 677 ex 1937/38, MED graduation register ("Promotiosprotokoll"); Paul WEINDLING, Restricted Refuge: Medical Refugees in New Zealand 1933-45, in: Anthony Grenville, Swen Steinberg, eds., Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 2019; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022.

Herbert Posch