Heinz Josef Wohlmann

Born:	05-10-1905
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Heinz Josef WOHLMANN (born on May 10th, 1905 in Krakau/Poland, entiteled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna), had graduated at the Law School at the University of Vienna on December 20th, 1927 with the academic degree 'Dr. iur.'. We worked as a lawyer in Berlin. In times of Nazism he emigrated to New York/USA. He was deprived of his academic degree on May 8th, 1941 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 unwürdig'). His wife Margarethe Wohlmann (nee Weis) was also deprived of her academic degree.
It took 62 years since the deprivation - and a very long time since the end of Nazism - until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on April 10th, 2003 posthumously in a solemn ceremony. Lit.: POSCH/STADLER 2005