Fritz Roubicek

Fritz Roubicek (born November 3, 1913 in Vienna ; † May 25, 1990 ibid) was an Austrian engineer and student historian .

Life

Roubicek spent his youth in Ottakring and attended the technical college for textile trade. He then studied at the University of World Trade . He was active in the Zionist technician association Jordania and in 1936 also became a member of the Jewish academic association Unitas . After the annexation of Austria , he fled with his wife via Switzerland to France, where he joined the Resistance . He was arrested by the French police and extradited to the German authorities. As a political prisoner, he spent three and a half years in Auschwitz . At the end of the war he had to take part in the death march to the Buchenwald concentration camp . Liberated there and returned to Vienna, he learned of the murder of his entire family in the Minsk ghetto .

In 1947 he married his second wife Liliane († February 7, 2019 in Hochegg / Grimmenstein ). He got a job with the Austrian Mineral Oil Administration . It was difficult for him to return to the old environment. After retiring , he found his actual home again in the milieu that had shaped him in his youth, with the student associations and the corporate student historians . In 1984 he became an honorary member of the Joint Vienna academic Corps Marchia, after its adjournment Free Corps Austro-Germania. "Brünndl" later founded the Fraternitas Vindobonensis.

Works

Vanished Viennese color goods shops. A childhood memory . Acta Studentica, 31, pp. 1-3 (1979).
The customs were so strict there! Memories of an old Jewish national couleur student . Vienna 1983; 2nd edition, Würzburg 1986; 3rd edition, Hilden 2000.
From Basel to Chernivtsi. The Jewish Academic Student Associations in Europe . Vienna 1986 (contributions to Austrian student history 12). GoogleBooks
As if it was yesterday! No autobiography - no nostalgia book , in: Peter Platzer, Raimund Neuss: Vienna - Auschwitz - Vienna. Fritz Roubicek in memory . Vierow 1997, pp. 13-92.

literature

Vienna Academic Corps Marchia: Silentium pro Fritz Roubicek . Vienna 1990. GoogleBooks
Peter Platzer , Raimund Neuss: Vienna - Auschwitz - Vienna. Fritz Roubicek in memory . Vierow 1997, ISBN 3-89498-050-8 . GoogleBooks
Harald Seewann : Fiducit Brünndl! Personal memories of a Jewish national weapons student , in: Peter Platzer, Raimund Neuss: Vienna - Auschwitz - Vienna. Fritz Roubicek in memory . Vierow 1997, pp. 103-105.
Roubicek Fritz, in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon on student and university history. A bio-bibliographical directory . (= Treatises on student and higher education, vol. 13), SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X , pp. 281–282.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Friedhelm Golücke: Author's lexicon on student and university history . Cologne 2004.
↑ Schlurfs, Schimmler, self-mutilators: Resistant sand sliding - Soho in Ottakring (Kerstin Kellermann)
↑ Austro-Germania consists mainly of Catholic couleur students in Austria and Germany. The corps does not have a fixed location, but declares that the connection point is wherever an Austro-German lives.

personal data
SURNAME	Roubicek, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brünndl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian engineer and student historian
DATE OF BIRTH	November 3, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	May 25, 1990
Place of death	Vienna

[Gol-1] A ^b Friedhelm Golücke: Author's lexicon on student and university history . Cologne 2004.

[2] Schlurfs, Schimmler, self-mutilators: Resistant sand sliding - Soho in Ottakring (Kerstin Kellermann)

[3] Austro-Germania consists mainly of Catholic couleur students in Austria and Germany. The corps does not have a fixed location, but declares that the connection point is wherever an Austro-German lives.