Lederer, W.
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Full Name[edit]
Wolfgang Lederer
Affiliation[edit]
University of California San Francisco
Other Information[edit]
Wolfgang Lederer was born in Vienna, in l9l9, into a well-to-do Jewish family. He graduated from the Akademische Gymnasium with honors in the spring of l937. That September, he entered the Austrian Army as a "one year volunteer", but upon the German occupation of Austria, in l938, he refused to take the oath on Hitler and was discharged to "service without a weapon." Facing deportation to a concentration camp, he fled to Paris, where his older brother offered him shelter. There he attended the Sorbonne, and in the spring of l939 was awarded the Certificat de Chimie Generale, "avec mention" (with honors). But his permit to stay in France was not likely to be renewed.