| Born: | 04-12-1916 |
| Faculty: | Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Hans Erich LINDNER, born on April 12th, 1916 in Debreczen/Hungary (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Dr. Karl Lindner M.D. (dentist, 1888-1943) and Martha, née Lipiner (1890-?, after divorce remarried to "Ayrian" Viktor Maschin). After the divorce of his parents in 1929, he continued to live with his father in Vienna's 13th district (today: 14th), Diesterweggasse 32/I/5, and was last enrolled in the 3rd year at the Medical School in the spring term of 1938. However, the term was cynically not recognized to him as validated due to "lack of frequency" (i.e. irregular lecture attendance - however, Jewish students were forbidden to enter the university buildings at the same time).
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 (Leaving Certificate ("Abgangszeugnis") was issued on May 19th, 1938).
Hans Erich Lindner had to flee Austria and in May 1938 tried to emigrate with his mother Martha Maschin, a dismissed seamstress, and his stepfather Viktor Maschin, a dismissed commercial agent, to the Netherlands or to Belgium, England, Argentina, Uruguay, USA or Palestine - in the end he succeeded in emigrating to England.
His biological father Karl Lindner, who had received a doctorate in medicine from the University of Vienna in 1914 and then worked as a dentist in Vienna Hietzing until the Anschluss in 1938, was deprived of his medical practice. However, he was still able to emigrate to the Netherlands (Utrecht), but after the German invasion of the Netherlands he was arrested there in August 1942, interned in the transit or concentration camp Westerbork and deported from Westerbork to the concentration camp Auschwitz [Oświęcim] in German-occupied Poland on October 19th, 1943 and murdered there immediately after arrival on October 22nd, 1943.
Hans Erich Lindner appeared in the September 1939 census with the occupational designation "unemployed, former medical student" at 22, Callow street, in Chelsea, London, England, and in October 1939 was exempted from the usual registration as an "enemy alien" and was not interned in a camp.
However, he was unable to resume and complete his studies under the conditions of emigration. He then lived and worked as John E. Lindner for a long time as a laboratory technician in Fulham, Middlesex (Greater London), England, where he had also already married Doris Margaret Tyler (1906-1984) in September 1941, with whom he had a son, John Eric. After the death of his wife, he lived until the end in Epsom, Surrey (Greater London), England.
John Eric Lindner, nee Hans Erich Lindner, died at the age of 80 on August 25th, 1996 in Surrey, England and he is buried at the Anglican Epsom Cemetery.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937–1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 430; www.genteam.at; www.ancestry.de; www.MyHeritage.at; collections.arolsen-archives.org; kind reference from Edith Heller, Vienna 09/2022.
Herbert Posch
