| Born: | 04-30-1918 |
| Faculty: | Philosophical School |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Rudolf LANDAUER (later: Ralph Steven LANDERS), born on April 30th, 1918 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Dr. Stephan Landauer (high finance offical at 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 Philosophical School in the 1st year of his studies and took courses in Chemistry and Physics.
In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism he was forced to quit his studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna.
His elder sister Annie Rose Spooner, née Landauer (1912-1994), who studied at the Law School, was also expelled from the University of Vienna.
He had to flee Vienna and was able to emigrate to England/Great Britain but was interned there as an enemy alien in April 1940 and was deported to Australia with the ship HMT "Dunera". After his release he returned to England in November 1941
He had to flee Vienna and was able to emigrate to England/Great Britain, but had no chance to continue his studies there. He was working as an electrician trainee at the General Cable Company in Leatherhead when, after the outbreak of war, he was interned as an "enemy alien" in June 1940 and deported to Australia on the ship HMT "Dunera". He was able to return to England via Singapore and Liverpool at the end of 1941 and was released from internment on November 29th, 1941.
His mother was unable to escape from Vienna in time and was deported on August 17, 1942 from a Jewish collective apartment in Vienna's 2nd district, Hollandstr. 12 to Maly Trostinec/Belarus, where she was murdered upon arrival.
Rudolf Landauer was naturalized in 1947 and changed his name to Ralph Steven LANDERS.
Ralph Steven Landers, née Rudolf Landauer, died in October 1982 in Surrey, England/Great Britain.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937–1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 426; www.ancestry.de; www.doew.at;information from Christine Kanzler and Elisabeth Lebensaft, Project "Dunera-Boys", 12/2015
Herbert Posch
