| Born: | 11-19-1916 |
| Faculty: | Philosophical School |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Ernst Rudolf PHILIPP, born on November 19th, 1916 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Edmund Philipp (1870–1936, merchant) and Karolina Philipp, née Selinko (1878–1941), lived in Vienna's 19th district, Peter-Jordan-Strasse 64. He had passed the school-leaving examination (Matura) on June 19th, 1934, at the Bundesgymnasium in Vienna's 19th district and began to study physics at the University of Vienna in the fall term of 1934/35. He was last enrolled at the School of Philosophy in the 4th and last year in the spring term of 1938 and was in the dissertation stage of his studies.
He had registered for the final examination/viva voce ("Rigorosen") in physics on January 17th, 1938, and passed the "one-hour Rigorosum"/"Philosophicum" viva voce on January 21st, 1938 (examiners: prof. Buehler, Reininger). After the so called Anschluss, in the sprnig term of 1938, he was still admitted to continue his studies until the end of the semester within the framework of the 2%numerus clausus for Jewish students
On July 8th, 1938, he had also submitted his dissertation with the title: "Ueber die Winkelabhaengigkeit bei der Streuung von Neutronen und Protonen" (On the angular dependence in the scattering of neutrons and protons) (doctoral advisors: prof. Sexl, Schweidler). The dissertation had been approved on October 13th, 1938. On October 19th, 1938, he had also passed the second viva (examiners: prof. Sexl, Schweidler, Mayrhofer). Thus, after a longer period of uncertainty, he was able to complete his studies and to receive his doctorate on October 31st, 1938, but only under numerous symbolic discriminations and with the discriminating ceremony of a "non-Aryan graduation", which included at the same time that he was banned from his profession in the entire German Reich.
His older brother Franz (Adolf) (1914-1970) also studied at the School of Philosophy, but art history and was already working on his dissertation, but was unable to complete his studies at the University of Vienna and emigrated to Australia.
Ernst Rudolf Philipp had to flee Vienna and was able to emigrate to England/Great Britain in 1939, where he was exempted from internment as an "enemy alien" in October 1939 and worked as a farm laborer and chicken farmer at James de Rothschild's Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England and lived in nearby Upper Winchendon.
He died in November 1996 in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1934–1938, finalexamination registry ("Rigorosenprotokoll") PHIL Nr. 14130, graduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") PHIL 1931–1941 No 2872, PHIL GZ 8 ex 1937/38 ONr. 89; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 448; IKG Vienna Birth-, Marriage- and Dethregisters (www.genteam.at), The National Archives in Kew, London, England/1939 Register RG 101/2138J and /WW2 Internees (Aliens) Index Cards 1939-1947 HO 396/68 (www.ancestry.de), General Register Office in London, England/England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes (www.ancestry.de).
Herbert Posch
