Gertrud (Trudy) Müller (verh. Reinkraut)
| Born: |
09-10-1919 |
| Faculty: |
Law School |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Gertrud MUELLER (married Reinkraut), born on September 10
th, 1919 in Vienna (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Dr. Rudolf Mueller (senior law official 'Oberlandesgerichtsrat') and Berta (nee Deutsch), lived in Vienna's 5
th disctrict, Diehlgasse 42/11, was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the Law School in the 1
st year of her studies.
After the "Anschluss" she could not continue with her studies and was expelled from the University of Vienna.
In June 21
st, 1939, she married in the temple in Vienna-Leopoldstadt the physician Dr. Arthur Reinkraut (b. August 14
th, 1912) and lived in Vienna's 3
rd district, Weyrgasse 7/9 and fled Austria on October 8
th, 1940. Gertrud und Arthur Reinkraut arrived on November 17
th, 1940 in New York / USA.
Gertraud ("Trudy") and her husband Dr. Arthur D. Reinkraut lived in Brooklyn, New York, NY, until July 1
st, 1941, and then moved to Passaic, New Jersey. Her husband worked until 1945 at the Passaic General Hospital and then opened a private practice in the same city.
Trudy Reinkraut could not continue her studies in the USA. She worked from 1940 to 1943 as an office worker in a food company, from 1943 to 1945 as a laboratory employee in the hospital where her husband worked, and then supported him in his practice.
In 1964 she, meanwhile a US citizen, successfully applied for a grant for "educational damage" to the Austrian Aid Fund.
Lit.: Archiv der Universität Wien/Nationale JUR 1937-1938; Austrian State Archive/Archive of the Republic/06-Finances/Hilfsfonds; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 441; SAUER/REITER-ZATLOUKAL 2010; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 2018.
Herbert Posch
