Walter Mann

• Born on: 22.3.1918
• Birthplace: Vienna (Wien),
• Category: Diploma 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 one.

Walter Mann was the younger son of the chief city physician Dr. Max Mann. He was enrolled at the University for World Trade for three semesters between the winter semester 1936/37 and winter semester 1937/38. In the university administration's records, the Jewish student was handwrittenly deregistered for the summer semester 1938, and the tuition fee for that semester was refunded. After the written assignments during the compulsory exercises that Mann completed in June 1937, he was unable to take any more exams at the University for World Trade. During his studies, he lived at Hofferplatz 9 (16th district of Vienna). His further fate is unknown.

For his brother Kurt Mann (born October 16, 1916 in Vienna), the 'Anschluss' of Austria also marked the end of his studies: He had to abandon his medical studies at the University of Vienna in the summer semester 1938 due to racial persecution by the Nazi regime. It is confirmed that he left the parental home at Hofferplatz 9 later that same year, emigrated to France, joined the Foreign Legion the following year, and went to Algeria and Morocco – thus to two countries that were then part of the French colonial empire. In France and Algeria, he tried to continue a natural sciences degree, but he was unable to complete it. In the same year that the German Wehrmacht invaded France, Kurt Mann emigrated to the USA. Since 1940, he lived in the United States and later became a bank director.

Author: Johannes Koll
Support in research: Barbara Timmermann

Source material

Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Universitätsarchiv, Studierendenkarteikarte und Alte Prüfungsliste.
Gedenkbuch für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus an der Universität Wien 1938, Eintrag zu Kurt Mann, http://gedenkbuch.univie.ac.at [18. April 2017].