| Born: | 11-18-1912 |
| Faculty: | Law School |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Annie LANDAUER, born on November 18th, 1912 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Dr. Stephan Landauer (high finance officalat the Finanzprokuratur, 1873-1923) and Clara Landauer, née Bleier (1885-1942), lived in Vienna's 4th district, Schoenburgstrasse 3/7, was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the Law School in the 4th and last year of her studies.
In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism she was forced to quit her studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna.
Her younger brother Rudolf Landauer (Ralph Steven Landers) (1918-1982), who studied at the Philosophical School, was also expelled from the University of Vienna.
She had to flee Vienna and was able to emigrate to England/Great Britain with a "domestic permit" and initially lived and worked as a cook in Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex, southern England. After the beginning of the war, she was not interned as an enemy alien like her brother. On October 15th, 1947 she married in Hitchin, England, Alfred Spooner and became Annie Rose Spooner.
Her mother was unable to escape from Vienna in time and was deported on August 17th, 1942 from a Jewish collective apartment in Vienna's 2nd district, Hollandstr. 12 to Maly Trostinec/Belarus, where she was murdered upon arrival.
Little is known so far about her further life.
Annie Rose Spooner, née Landauer, died on November 20th, 1994 in Letchworth Herts near Stevenage, Hertfordshire/England.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") IUR 1937–1938; Austrian State Archives OeStA/AdR/E-uReang/VVSt/VA 8791; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 429; www.genteam.at; www.ancestry.de; www.doew.at; information from Susanne Held, Vienna 03/2022 and frim Roswitha Hammer, Vienna 01/2023.
Herbert Posch
