| Born: | 11-20-1907 |
| Faculty: | Philosophical School |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Bella (Beila) BAUMINGER, born November 20th, 1907 in Stanislau, Galicia/Austro-Hungarian Empire [later: Stanisławów/Poland, today: Ivano-Frankivsk|Івано-Франківськ/Ukraine] (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Stanisławów/Poland, citizenship 1938: Poland) as daughter of Samuel Leib Bauminger (1879–1935) and Zipe Bauminger, née. Horowitz, she later lived in the Netherlands, where she also attended elementary school in The Hague when World War I broke out in 1914. In 1920 the family moved to Vienna and she attended the private Reformrealgymnasium des Elternvereins in Vienna's 16th district (Koflerpark/Ludo-Hartmann-Platz 7), successfully passing the school leaving examination (Matura) on June 22nd, 1928. She began studying pharmaceutics, chemistry and physics at the University of Vienna in the fall term of 1928/29, lived in Vienna's 7th district, Lindengasse 11/13 and was last enrolled at the Philosophcal School in the fall term of 1932/33. She had been in the final examination (viva voce) stage since then.
She had also already written her dissertation "On the Oxidation of Amino Acids and Proteins by Means of Potassium Permangate and Sodium Hypochlorite" at the Medical-Chemical Institute under the supervision of Doz. Fritz Lieben (1890–1966), which had also been approved by Prof. Ernst Späth and Prof. Hermann Mark (1895–1992) on September 29th, 1933. On July 7th, 1934, she passed the one-hour viva voce ("Philosophicum") under Prof. Karl Bühler (1879–1963) and Prof. Robert Reiniger. Only the two-hour viva with her two dissertation examiners was still open. During this time she also graduated as a pharmacist on May 11th, 1935 and acquired the title "Mag.pharm.", but because of her Polish citizenship she had to lodge a lapel that she would not practice in Austria.
After some uncertainty, she was able to take the two-hour viva on June 28th, 1938 (Prof. Hermann Mark had already been dismissed from the University of Vienna at that time and she was examined by Prof. Kailan instead) and to complete her studies in chemistry by passing the last examination. On July 21st, 1938, she was still able to obtain her doctorate under numerous symbolic discriminations in the context of a "non-Aryan doctorate", while at the same time being banned from working in the entire German Reich.
She had to flee Vienna and was able to emigrate to Great Britain in time with a "servant visa", where, although a doctor of chemistry, she only found employment as a housemaid with Mrs. Clark in "The Chestnuts", Furzenhilll Road, Elstree, Hertfordshire/England, and was exempted from internment as an "enemy alien" in December 1939. She later lived in Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, became a British citizen on 3 Jul 1947 and lived with Sarah R. Pickard at 23/1 Rotton Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham (from 1965 at Hagley Road E1, Brimingham).
Mag. pharm. Dr.phil. Bella Bauminger died in July 1987 in Edgbaston, Birmingham/England.
Lit: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1928–1935, final examination registry ("Rigorosenprotokoll") PHIL No. 11832, graduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") PHIL 1931–1941 No. 2821; FRITSCH 2007; POSCH 2009, 366; www.ancestry.de; www.myheritage.com.
Herbert Posch
