Kurt Bergmann

Born:	03-13-1919
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled student

Kurt BERGMANN, born on March 13^th, 1919 in Vienna/Austria as Kurt Reiter (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Barach Reiter (salesman) and Gisela Reiter (née Kohn) - the family changed its surname from "Reiter" to "Bergmann" on May 31^st, 1927 -, lived in Vienna's 5^th district, Ziegelofengasse 41. He had graduated from highschool (Realgymnasium "Rainer" in Mauer near Vienna) in summer 1937 and enrolled in fall term 1937/38 at the Philosophical School in the 1^st year of his studies and he took courses in History and Romance language and literature Studies. 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 Vienna after the Nazi takeover and managed to emigrate to Palestine [Israel] in 1938, from where he returned to Vienna in 1947 and lived in Vienna's 2^nd district, Tempelgasse 3. His collection of rare photographs from the "displaced person (DP)" camps in Austria between 1945 and the late 1940s went as a gift to the Jewish Museum Vienna in 2013 and was presented in their 2017 yearbook "Displaced in Austria. Jewish Refugees since 1945". He published books homself, including "Das synagogale Gebet am Freitag Abend" (edited by Kurt Bergmann and Hedwig Wahle), Vienna:IDCIV 1989. He died on September 15^th, 2003 in Vienna.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 361; Christine OERTEL, Displaced Persons - a Little-Known Aspect of Austrian Contemporary History. Kurt Bergmanns photo collection, in: Vienna Yearbook for Jewish History, Culture and Museums Studies, Vol. 11 - 2015/16, Vienna 2017, 14-53; www.gentem.ac.at, www.ancestry.de.

Herbert Posch