Hans Bader

Hans Bader was born in Vienna as the legitimate son of the salesman Wilhelm Bader and Cäcilie, née Batscha (or Batschka). The family is Jewish. After elementary school, he attended the Schophenhauer Realgymnasium in Vienna's 18th district, where he graduated in 1937. In the same year, he enrolled at the University of World Trade.

On March 12, 1938, he witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. With the occupation of Austria, German legislation was adopted and with it the 'Nuremberg Race Laws', according to which Hans Bader was considered a 'full Jew'. On March 29, 1938, it is decreed that students must declare in lieu of an oath that they are not Jewish when enrolling and that Jewish students are no longer allowed to enrol. Enrolments that had already been made were revoked.
Jewish students were also no longer admitted to final examinations and doctorates.

Hans Bader had to give up his studies and fled to Prague in August 1938. With the occupation of the rest of Czechoslovakia by the Third Reich in March 1939, he once again came under German rule. He tried in vain to emigrate to Peru.

On October 16, 1941, Hans Bader and 999 other people were deported to the Litzmannstadt ghetto [today: Łódź in Poland], where he was murdered after October 16, 1941.