Dkfm. Thedor (auch Teodor) Apteker
- Born on: 18.7.1901
- Birthplace: Stanislau (Iwano-Frankiwsk),
- Category: Doctorate program
- Right of domicile: Wien (Wien),
The English version is based on a translation by artificial intelligence. The authentic version is considered to be the German version.
At the time of Theodor Apteker's birth, his birthplace Stanislau/Ivano-Frankiwsk was in Galicia – and thus part of the Habsburg Empire. A high percentage of this multiethnic city was Jewish at that time. His mother was the merchant Klara Goldberg.
After attending the Stanislau Gymnasium, Apteker was enrolled at the University for World Trade between the summer semester of 1922 and the summer semester of 1923; three semesters from another university were credited to him, although this is not named on the student card. During his studies, he lived at Bauernmarkt 8/11 (1st District), not far from St. Stephen's Cathedral. On November 20, 1923, Apteker successfully passed the diploma examination. After the 'University for World Trade' received a study and examination regulation in 1930, he ordered his diploma certificate on March 20, 1934. In the meantime, he had already begun his doctoral studies; for this he was enrolled at the 'University for World Trade' in the winter semester of 1930/31 and the summer semester of 1931. At that time, he was registered at Dominikanerbastei 17/9 (1st District). After Apteker failed the Second Rigorosum on his first attempt in October 1934, he apparently made no further efforts to obtain the title of Doctor of Commercial Sciences. After the 'Anschluss' of Austria, such an opportunity was authoritatively denied to him by the Nazi state and the Nazified university. It stated succinctly on his student card: 'Since Jewish, not admitted to the further examinations.'
As early as 1933, Theodor Apteker married Clara (also Klara) Wagner (born September 9, 1911 or October 9, 1911 in Vienna as the daughter of Leo Leib Wagner and Irene, née Singer) in the Vienna Synagogue Seitenstettengasse. Between October 1934 and September 1937, he commuted several times between Tel Aviv, which apparently became his center of life, and Vienna, where he resided at Herrengasse 6/10 (1st District), exclusively during the summer months. It is suspected that after the German Wehrmacht's invasion of Austria (March 12, 1938), he did not return to Vienna, but remained in Palestine. It is certainly documented that Theodor Apteker, together with Leo Cohen and Robert Wand, received the power of attorney for a production company based in Tel Aviv in 1940. He then disappears from the records.
Author: Johannes Koll
Support in research: Regina Zodl
Source material
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Universitätsarchiv, Studierendenkarteikarten.
GenTeam. Die genealogische Datenbank, https://genteam.at [16. November 2020]: Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien: Index der jüdischen Matriken Wien und Niederösterreich, Nr. 192008 und 174932.
Meldeauskunft des Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchivs, GZ MA 8 – B-MEA-605932-2017.
The Palestine Gazette, Nr. 1019 vom 13.06.1940, S. 674.