Selma Münz (verh. Kreisky)

Born:	05-18-1915
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled student

Selma MUENZ, born on May 18^th, 1915 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Baruch Muenz (merchant), lived in Vienna 3^rd district, Custozzagasse 5/7, was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the Philosophical School in the 4^th and last year of her studies and took courses in pharmaceutics. She had registered for the final exams ("Rigorosen") on December, 20^th 1937 and passed the first rigorosum on February 26^th, 1938. After the "Anschluss" she applied for admission to further studies within the framework of the Numerus clausus for Jewish students in the spring term of 1938, which was rejected. She had to quit her studies. It was not until the end of National-Socialism that she was able to finish her studies in Vienna in 1949 - the inscription of the missing semester was issued "due to reparation" – but not the exams –. She submitted her dissertation: "'A contribution to the knowledge of the bromide substitution products of guajacol, veratrol, pyrocatechol, pyrogallol, 1,3-dimethyl ether and cedrirets". ("Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Bromsubstitutionsprodukte des Guajacols, Veratrols, Brenzkatechins, Pyrogalloll, 1,3-dimethylaethers und Cedrirets") - doctoral advisors: Wessely, Ebert - on February 11^th, 1949, which was approved on July 27^th, 1949. She also passed the second rigorosum on November 14^th, 1949 and graduated three days later, on November 17^th, 1949, with a delay of 11 years, but still at the University of Vienna. She married her classmate Dr. Fritz Kreisky (1911-1987), who was able to complete his studies in July 1938, albeit only under numerous symbolic discrimination in the context of a "non-Aryan promotion" at the same time pronounced professional ban throughout the German Reich. She was able to emigrate with her husband to Shanghai/China and in 1947 to Sweden, where they continued to live and work. Selma Kreisky, née Münz, died on July 22^th, 1987, aged 76 in Bergsjön, Gothenburg, Sweden (one day after her husband).
To this day, every year in autumn, the "Selma och Fritz Kreiskys stipendium" is donated to three medical students from the Sahlgrenska Academy of the University of Gothenburg, which is raffled among those applicants who have been studying for at least one year in the doctoral program.

Lit.: POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 441; FRITSCH 2007; Archive of the University of Vienna/Enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1949, Rigorosen Protocol 14.080, Doctoral Protocol 1941-1956 No. 1544; Selma and Fritz Kreisky-Stipendium at the University of Gothenburg.

Herbert Posch