Isidor Alfred Amreich

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Isidor Alfred Amreich (born April 22, 1885 in Gars am Kamp ; † September 8, 1972 in Vienna ) was an Austrian gynecologist who was dismissed from the University of Vienna as a university professor due to his National Socialist involvement and was permanently appointed director of the "Second University Women's Clinic" was removed from office.

Life

Since 1939 Isidor Amreich has lived in an Aryanized apartment in this house built by Dionys Milch and Heinrich Hellin in 1882 (corner of Rathausstrasse / Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz), in which, by the way, Sigmund Freud rented two rooms and his first practice in 1886 and which is now the America House is located.

The son of the Gars community doctor of the same name Isidor Amreich (born January 22, 1853 in Deutschfeistritz , † August 17, 1892 in Gars) received his doctorate in medicine in 1910 and qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1923 in the subjects of gynecology and obstetrics. In 1934 Amreich joined the NSDAP, which was illegal in Austria, and became a member of the SA . In March 1938 he joined the SS , where he was appointed SS-Untersturmführer on September 10, 1939 and SS-Obersturmführer on January 30, 1942 . In December 1944 he applied for admission to the "Academic Legion at the Higher SS and Police Leader Vienna". Amreich is also a member of the National Socialist Medical Association , "Oberfeldführer" of the " German Red Cross " and has lived in an aryanized apartment at Rathausstrasse 7 since 1939 .

From January 1, 1940, Amreich is one of those doctors who are authorized to carry out the compulsory sterilization regulated therein according to the " Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring " (GzVeN) , which at Amreich also includes the compulsory sterilization of prison inmates. Furthermore, he works for the "Viennese Hereditary Health Supreme Court " as an expert in questions of the ability to conceive and (which is particularly beneficial to him after the Second World War) issued an expert opinion in favor of a victim, as mentioned by the University of Innsbruck , which Amreich made an honorary senator in 1969 , which she now classified as a “problematic honor”: “More important than Amreich's one-time report for the Vienna Higher Genetic Health Court, which was made in favor of those affected, is his involvement in the forced interventions themselves. Between January 1941 and March 1942, 62 forced sterilizations were carried out at his clinic. How many of them he carried out himself is (at the present time) just as unknown as the total number of interventions carried out up to the abolition of the GzVeN in 1945. What remains independent of this, however, is Amreich's legal responsibility for it. "

After Austria was liberated from Nazi rule, Amreich was dismissed from the University of Vienna as a university professor and permanently relieved of his post as head of the “Second University Women's Clinic”. Amreich is arrested and briefly imprisoned for his National Socialist involvement. After being banned from his profession for several months, he ran a private gynecological practice in Vienna and his birthplace Gars am Kamp, which made him an honorary citizen in 1954 .

Act

Amreich was a student of Friedrich Schauta in Vienna. In 1924 in Vienna, he worked out the actual surgical anatomy of the Schauta-Stoeckel operation as a radical total vaginal extirpation of the uterus in cervical carcinoma by showing the individual spaces and thus developed the procedure into an anatomical operation. In addition, he developed a vaginal operation method for organ-preserving therapy of the incident of the vaginal end after vaginal or abdominal hysterectomy , which is known today as the Amreich-Richter operation .

Awards

Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order with the war decoration
  • Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order with the war decoration (awarded: 1917)
  • Honorary Citizen of Gars am Kamp (Awarded 1954)
  • Honorary Senator of the University of Innsbruck (awarded: 1969) [has since been classified as a "problematic honor"]
  • Honorary member of the Austrian Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Honorary member of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Honorary member of the Spanish Society of Gynecology
  • Honorary member of the Italian Society of Gynecology

Fonts (selection)

  • The Radium X-ray Theory in Gynecology. Springer Verlag, 1926.
  • with H. Peham: Gynecological Operations. S. Karger Verlag, Berlin 1930.
  • The sterility, its causes, research and treatment. Hollinek Verlag, Vienna 1951.
  • Etiology and operation of vaginal stump prolapse. In: Wien Klin Wochenschr. 63: 74-77 (1951).
  • Biology and Pathology of Women. Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1953.
  • with H. Albrecht et al. (Ed.): Obstetrics and gynecology. Results of research for practice. Thieme Verlag, Leipzig, ISSN  0016-5751

literature

  • Ernst Navratil : Isidor Alfred Amreich 1885–1972. In: Obstetrics Frauenheilkd. 1973, 33, pp. 433-435. PMID 4581167
  • H. Högler: The vaginal radical operation of carcinoma colli uteri according to Schauta-Amreich. Urban & Schwarzenberg publishing house, 1960.
  • Roman Pfefferle and Hans Pfefferle: mildly denazified. The professorships at the University of Vienna from 1944 in the post-war years. Isidor Amreich's Nazi past is discussed on pages 175–178, 180, 183, 193–196 and 318.
  • Claudia Spring: Between war and euthanasia . Forced sterilization in Vienna 1940–1945. Full text pdf version. Thematizes Isidor Amreich's Nazi past.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Völkischer Beobachter . 15, March 1945, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Roman Pfefferle and Hans Pfefferle: Glowly denazified. The professorships at the University of Vienna from 1944 in the post-war years. P. 175ff.
  3. ^ University of Innsbruck: Honorary Senator Isidor Alfred Amreich (1885-1972).
  4. ↑ Roman Pfefferle and Hans Pfefferle: Glowly denazified. The professorships at the University of Vienna from 1944 in the post-war years. P. 175f.
  5. ↑ Roman Pfefferle and Hans Pfefferle: Glowly denazified. The professorships at the University of Vienna from 1944 in the post-war years. P. 175ff.
  6. ^ University of Innsbruck: Honorary Senator Isidor Alfred Amreich (1885-1972).
  7. ↑ CA Spring: Between War and Euthanasia. Forced sterilization in Vienna 1940–1945. Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78321-3 .
  8. ↑ O. cheesemaker, FA Iklé: Atlas of gynecological surgery. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1965, pp. 263-307.
  9. ^ M. Possover , S. Kamprath, A. Schneider: The historical development of radical vaginal operation of cervix carcinoma. In: Zentralbl Gynakol. 119 (1997), pp. 353-358. PMID 9340975
  10. ^ HJ Kaum, F. Wolff: The Amreich-Richter operation. Anatomical basics and operative procedure. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Gynecologist. 44 (2003), pp. 504-512. (PDF; 649 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frauenarzt.de
personal data
SURNAME Amreich, Isidor Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Gars am Kamp
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1972
Place of death Vienna