| Born: | 10-02-1914 |
| Faculty: | Philosophical School |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Ernst Theodor OBERWEGER, born on October 2nd, 1914 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Siebenhirten/Lower Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Mag.pharm. Moriz (Moses) Oberweger (1882-?, pharmacist) and Regina Oberweger, née Löwy (1891-?), lived in Vienna's 3rd district, Sechskruegelgasse 10/6, was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the Philosophical School in the 5th and last year of his studies and took courses in Pharmaceutics and Chemistry.
He was forced to abandon his studies and leave the University of Vienna under National Socialism after the "Anschluss" for racist reasons (Leaving Certificate ["Abgangszeugnis"] was issued on May 10th, 1938).
He had to flee Vienna and managed to emigrate as a student to British Mandatory Palestine [Israel], arriving in the port of Tel Aviv on July 18th, 1938.
In Vienna, the family's apartment was expropriated ("Aryanized") and the parents had to wait in a sublet room with a friend in Vienna's 3rd district, Löwengasse 38/10 from May 1939 for the requested departure to Palestine [Israel]. The father, as a Jew, had no more been allowed to work in a pharmacy and had been dismissed. The parents also managed to emigrate to Palestine in November 1939.
Ernst Theodor Oberweger had married Krakow born Irene Pommer (b. 1919) in Jerusalem on December 8th, 1939, and they had two children. He served in the British Army from April 21st, 1942, and he and his wife were naturalized in Palestine on March 29th, 1946.
Ernst Theodor Oberweger died in Israel in 1993.
Lit: Archives of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 445; www.genteam.at, www.myheritage.at; kind reference from Gabriele Stawa, Vienna 06/2023.
Herbert Posch
