Discipline:
- History
Faculty:
- Faculty of Philosophy
Kurt BERGMANN, born on March 13th, 1919 in Vienna/Austria as Kurt Reiter (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Barach Reiter (salesman) and Gisela Reiter (née Kohn) - the family changed its surname from "Reiter" to "Bergmann" on May 31st, 1927 -, lived in Vienna's 5th 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 1st 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 2nd 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 15th, 2003 in Vienna.
He is commemorated at the University of Vienna in the "Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna in 1938" (2009) (online) and at the "Memorial to the History Students and Teachers of the University of Vienna Expelled under National Socialism | When Names Shine" (2022).
Siehe auch
Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938.