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Walter Zweig

Born: 10-30-1872
Faculty: Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category: Expelled teacher
Walter ZWEIG (born on October 30th, 1872 in Bruenn, Moravia/Austro-Hungarian Empire [Brno, Czech Republic]) was 1938 private lecturer with the title of an extraordinary professor ("'Privatdozent tit. ao. Prof.") for inner medicine at the Medical School of the University of Vienna. He was persecuted in times of Nazism as a Jew, lost his position and was forced to leave the university on April 22nd, 1938. More detailled biography >>> only in German (to be translated soon)


Lit.: Archive of the University od Vienna, rectorate GZ 677 ex 1937/38, ONr 123, personal record S 304.1455; MÜHLBERGER 1993, 36; MERINSKY 1980, 291-292; BLUMESBERGER 2002, 1527; Van Swieten Blog; www.geni.com; FISCHER 1932/1933, 1734, , REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 04/2020 and from Dr. Harro Jenss, Worpswede 11/2020.


Herbert Posch


Zweig Walter, deprivation of venia legendi, 1938 © Archive of the University of Vienna

Zweig Walter, deprivation of venia legendi, 1938 © Archive of the University of Vienna
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