Masimo Carlo Lorenz (früher: Levi)

Born:	04-12-1884
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Masimo Carlo LORENZ (nee LEVI) (born on April 12th, 1884 in Vienna), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on July 17th, 1907 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'. In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on July 14th, 1942 with the racist argument, that he as a Jew was not considered dignified an academic degree of a German university ('eines akademischen Grades einer deutschen Hochschule unwürdig'). It took 66 years since the deprivation - and a very long time since the end of Nazism - until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place in 2008.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/graduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") IUR 1903-1908, Nr. 1234, Rectorate GZ 118 ex 1941/42; POSCH 2009, 275, 444.

Herbert Posch