| Born: | 11-17-1908 |
| Faculty: | Philosophical School |
| Category: | Expelled student |
David Lanner, born on November 17th, 1908 in Belz, Galicia/Austria-Hungary [later Poland, today: Bels|Белз/Ukraine] (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") 1938 for Belz/Poland, citizenship 1938: Poland), son of the late Baruch Lanner and the widowed Beile/Betty Lanner (grocery store, Vienna's 2nd district, Grosse Schiffgasse 5), lived in Vienna's 2nd district, Herminengasse 6/2, was last enrolled in the spring term 1938 at the philosophical school in the 4th and last year of his studies and took courses in geography, history and Hebrew.
He was forced to abandon his studies and leave the University of Vienna under National Socialism after the "Anschluss" for racist reasons.
He had to flee from Vienna and managed in time to leave Austria together with his mother and arrived in France via Belgium where he last lived in Nice before emigrating to Spain at the end of November 1942. There, after the end of the Spanish Civil War under the Franco dictatorship, many international refugees who fled across the Pyrenees to Spain after the occupation of France by German troops were interned - including David Lanner from January to March 1943 in the camp in Miranda de Ebro. It was not until April 1943 that he and his mother succeeded in obtaining exit visas to the USA in Barcelona and emigrated on June 8th from Lisbon [Lisboa]/Portugal on the SS Serpa Pinto to the USA, where they arrived in Philadelphia on June 22nd, 1943 and settled in the Bronx, New York City, NY, where David Lanner's sister Mali Zwiebel already lived.
David Lanner gave his job title as "theological student" and the family lived with his sister and brother-in-law Pinkus Zwiebel at 63 Prospect Ave.
Shortly thereafter, in June 1945, he married Augusta Rosa Parnes (1921–2007), who had also emigrated from Essen/Germany in 1933 and came via France, Spain and Portugal to the USA in 1944. Their son Bernard/Baruch Lanner (Rabbi) was born in 1949.
Little is known so far about his further life and career.
David Lanner died on December 26th, 1986 in Bronx, New York City, NY/USA.
He is commemorated at the University of Vienna in the "Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna in 1938" (2009) and at the "Memorial to the History Students and Teachers of the University of Vienna Expelled under National Socialism | When Names Shine" (2022).
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") 1937–1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 427; www.ancestry.de; USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, University of Southern California, interview 9690 with Augusta Rosa Lanner, née Parnes (November 16th, 1995, West Palm Beach, FL, USA, interviewer: Barbara Waskover); POSCH/FUCHS 2022, 122.
Herbert Posch
