Johann Karl Mattuschka

Born:	08-20-1900
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Johann Karl MATTUSCHKA (born on August 20^th, 1900 in Klagenfurt/Carinthia), had graduated at the Medical School at the University of Vienna  on October 15^th, 1937 with the academic degree 'Dr. med.'.

In times of Nazism the physician was registered by the Gestapo records department because of the "suspicion of activities for a pacifist sect" (wegen "Verdachts der Betaetigung für eine wehrfeindliche Sekte" on March 20th, 1942. He was deported to the concentration camp Dachau on June 6th, 1942, where he died on January 15^th, 1943.
He was deprived of his academic degree on July 2^nd, 1942 because of his political opinion.

It took 13 years since the deprivation – and a very long time since the end of Nazism – until the posthumously regranting of the doctorate took finally place on October 10^th, 1955.

More detailed biography only in >>> German - to be translated soon.

Lit.: POSCH 2009, 449; Archive of the University of Vienna, Rectorate GZ 130 ex 1942/43, GZ 131 ex 1942/43, GZ 276 ex 1942/43, GZ 561/19 ex 1944/45; grdauation journal medical school ("MED Promotionsprotokoll") 1937 Nr. 3587; Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DOeW): Gestapo victims database.

Herbert Posch