Hans Lehnstorff

Born:	04-28-1918
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Expelled student

Hans LEHNSTORFF, born on April 28^th, 1918 in Vienna/Austro-Hungarian Emire (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Dr. Theodor Lehnstorff, née Loewy (1886-before 1945, lawyer), lived in Vienna's 8^th district, Alser Strasse 10, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Law School in the 2^nd year of his studies. After the Anschluss in March 1938, he was allowed to continue his studies for at least two months in the spring term of 1938 within the framework of the 2% numerus clausus for Jewish students, but was then forced to abandon his studies for good for racist reasons and had to leave the University of Vienna. His father, who had also studied at the University of Vienna (Dr. iur. 1907) and had been admitted to the bar in Vienna since 1926 (office in Vienna's 1^st district, Habsburgergasse 1), was deleted from the list in 1938 for racist reasons, had to close his office and was only admitted for a few months as "Jewish counsel in the Ostmark" for the district of the Regional Court for Civil Matters Vienna and the District Court Korneuburg and emigrated to Riga/Latvia in the spring of 1939. He was probably evacuated by the Soviets to the USSR during the German attack in 1941, where he was deported as an "enemy alien" to the internment or forced labor camp in Karaganda (Kazakh SSR) [Qaraghandy|Қарағанды/Kassakhstan)] where he died before 1945. Hans Lehnstorff was unable to escape from Vienna in time and was deported to the Dachau concentration camp near Munich/Germany after the "November Pogrom" of 1938, where, according to the death certificate, he was shot while attempting to escape during transport in Prittlbach next to Dachau on November 14^th, 1938.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") IUR 1937–1938; Arolsen Archives/Incarceration Documents Camps and Ghettos/Dachau/01010602 oS; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 428; SAUER/REITER-ZATLOUKAL 2010, 226; DOeW|Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, database Austrian Victims of the Holocaust.

Herbert Posch