ABSTRACT
When in 1922 the German Student Body presented a memorandum demanding increased efforts to safeguard the German nature of the University of Vienna, in particular by a numerus clausus of 10 percent for Jewish university teachers, the President (Rektor) of the University, Karl Diener, in his response deemed this request ‘understandable’, yet regretted that:
In this direction it will be difficult to find a remedy as long as according to the legal regulation of habilitations only the scientific qualification has to matter and … the affiliation to a specific denomination must not constitute an obstacle for attaining an office accessible to all Austrian citizens. 2
