Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938
Preamble
Following the advent of the National Socialist regime in the year 1938, more than 2,700 mostly Jewish affiliates of the University of Vienna were dismissed and subsequently driven away and/or murdered - lecturers, students and administration employees. Furthermore, over 200 people were stripped of their academic titles.
Jakob Buttermann
| Born: | 11-21-1908 |
| Faculty: | Philosophical School |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Jakob BUTTERMANN, born on November 21st, 1908 in Dobromil, Galici/Austro-Hungarian Empire [later Poland, today: Dobromyl|Добромил/Ukraine] (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), lived in Vienna's 2nd district, Lassingleitnerplatz 1, was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the Philosophical School in the 4th and last year of his studies and took courses in History anf Geography.
In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism he was forced to quit his studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna.
He had to flee from Vienna and was initially able to emigrate to France and lived in Bordeaux. After the occupation of France he was able to emigrate via Lisbon [Lisboa]/Portugal to the USA where he arrived together with his brother Ludwig (born 1910) with the SS Nea Hellas on August 11th, 1940 in New York City, NY. He declared as profession: "fur merchant", lived for the time being with his brother-in-law Nahum Brind in Manhattan, New York City, NY and applied for US citizenship in May 1941.
Jacob Buttermann presumably died on June 15th, 1941, in New York City, NY/USA.
He is commemorated at the University of Vienna here 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") PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 371: Herbert POSCH & Martina FUCHS, eds., Wenn Namen leuchten. Von der Universität Wien 1938 bis 1945 vertriebene Geschichte-Studierende und -Lehrende: ein Denkmal, Vienna/Münster 2022, 78; www.ancestry.de.
Herbert Posch
