Carl (Karl Leopold) Furtmüller

Born:	08-02-1880
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Carl (Karl Leopold) FURTMUELLER (born on August 2nd, 1880 in Vienna), had graduated at the Philosophical School at the University of Vienna in German language and literature Studies on December 19th, 1902 with the academic degree 'Dr. phil.' (dissertation: 'Die Theorie des Epos bei den Brüdern Schlegel, den Klassikern und Wilhelm von Humboldt.').
In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on June 29th, 1944 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 unwuerdig').
It took 64 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.: Oskar ACHS, Hg., Carl Furtmüller (1880–1951), Sozialismus und Individualpsychologie, Wien 1997; Irmgard FUCHS, Carl Furtmüller: ein Politiker im Dienste der Jugend, in: LÉVY/MACKENTHUN 2002, 81-98; Carl FURTMÜLLER, Denken und Handeln: Schriften zur Psychologie 1905–1950. Von den Anfängen der Psychoanalyse zur Anwendung der Individualpsychologie, München 1983; Literaturarchiv der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek: Datenbank "Verzeichnis der künstlerischen, wissenschaftlichen und kulturpolitischen Nachlässe in Österreich"; Das rote Wien.

Katharina Kniefacz