03:17

Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Innnsbruck

2008-08-10

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicole D´Incecco

1941

Meanwhile, the following happened: After I had to take leave from Vienna, I have a decree, I will as a student teacher first moved to Innsbruck and had to report myself there at the school. I went in uniform, the representative of the Board of Education, Professor Schadler, was a history teacher of mine. He has received me with the remark: "First, you are CVer, secondly, you have refused to go to the party, third, you do not even the Nazi Teachers Federation or teacher covenant" are, or how it was said that party. "They are teach in Tirol no single hour, will make sure I do. But you will be transferred to the victory in the Far East conquered. This has affected me, of course, because back then in 1941 the outcome of the war was still quite open. Since I arrived on the same day - that was God's blessing - my teacher from the university, Professor Leski. To this I have told what he has told me since the school board. And he told me: "We just got an assistant position at the institute. I offer the assistant position. Announce at the school. "For me it was a complete change in my career plans. I never thought then, taking up an academic career. There were only two conditions: I had at the rector and dean, the radical Nazi were, I had to audition and they ask for their consent. And second this: I had to, said Leski, renounce definitively to work as a high school teacher and my goal would be to habilitate me to be a university professor to be. I immediately decided this. When Rector and Dean I have found understanding, I must confess that. They said: "What matters is performance and not the decisive factor is the party." I know that other colleagues have had a different experience. But I have made this good experience.