Richard Schoeinger, an Austrian sportsman, and his son, Richard, Jr., were excluded from the Austro-German sports union because it was revealed that the wife and mother respectively of the two members was of Jewish origin.
When the Aryan members of the sports union management learned of Mrs. Schoeninger’s antecedents, they asked Richard Schoeninger to resign from the board. His wife and his son were equally excluded from the roster.
Richard Schoeninger brought action in the courts against the management’s decision. The court, though it rebuked the Aryan doctrine, ruled that the management had a right on the basis of the union’s statutes, to exclude the plaintiff.
Although they rejected a new application by Schoeninger, the sports union management admitted his son as a guest member, taking into consideration his suffering over the expulsion. He had suffered a nervous breakdown.
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