Armin Luft

Born:	11-04-1903
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Armin LUFT (born on November 4th, 1903 in Lemberg/Galicia [L'vov/Ukraine]), was the son of Louis Luft und Nella Hoffmann. He had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna  on July 13th, 1929 with the academic degree 'Dr. rer.pol.'.

In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on July 17th, 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').  

In 1949 Armin Luft married Marie Henriette Noèle "Monique" Schlumberger (born in 1903) in Lausanne/Switzerland.

It took 13 years since the deprivation – and a very long time since the end of Nazism – until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on May 15th, 1955.

Luft died in 1957 in France.
Lit.: Geneva Genealogy Society.