Anton Hafferl

Anton Hafferl (born March 26, 1886 in Vienna , † May 5, 1959 in Graz , Styria ) was an Austrian anatomist and university professor .

Life

Hafferl received his doctorate in Vienna in 1912 and qualified as a professor in 1921 (also in Vienna) in anatomy. From 1912 until his appointment to Graz at the 1st Anatomical Institute in Vienna, Hafferl was one of the most important representatives of the Vienna School of Anatomy. His scientific work includes a. Works from the comparative anatomy (e.g. arterial system of vertebrates , anatomy of the monkey foot), but also his well-known standard textbook of topographical anatomy , which appeared in 1953 and was later revised by his successor Walter Thiel .

Hafferl was full professor at the Anatomical Institute of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz from 1933 to 1959 (with interruptions) . During this time he took over the office of dean of the medical faculty several times, for example in 1937/38 and 1938 to 1945, most recently in 1952.

After the " Anschluss of Austria ", he joined the NSDAP in 1938 and became a shop steward for the National Socialist Lecturer Association . Hafferl was friends with the Gauleiter Siegfried Uiberreither and with the SS-Sturmbannführer Bernward Josef Gottlieb , head of the SS-Doctors Academy Graz, and was provided with bodies of Gestapo victims for the anatomical examinations . From April 24 to June 11, 1945, Hafferl was rector of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz.

In 1946 Hafferl was temporarily imprisoned because of his political stress. In December 1948 he was confirmed in his office as full professor of anatomy. In 1957 Hafferl retired. He is buried in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz .

Fonts

• The anatomy of the pleural dome . An anatomical contribution to thoracic surgery . Springer, Berlin 1939, OBV .
• Textbook of topographical anatomy . Springer, Berlin 1953, DNB 451763807 . (Third edition, 1969: ISBN 978-3-642-87342-3 ).
• -, Walter Thiel : Instructions for the dissection exercises of the second year students at the anatomy in Graz . Huallenz, Radkersburg 1955, OBV .

literature

• Petra Scheiblechner: "... politically he is impeccable ..." Short biographies of the scientists working at the Medical Faculty of the University of Graz from 1938 to 1945 . Akademische Druck- und Verlags-Anstalt, Graz 2002, p. 66 f. ( Digitized version )
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . 2., act. Edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Anton Hafferl in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 217.
2. ↑ Graz Blood Court carried out 155 death sentences. Freedom fighters were dissected - the Hafferl affair. In:  Weltpresse. Independent news and voices from all over the world , No. 213/1946 (Volume II), September 16, 1946, p. 5. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Scheiblechner: "... politically it is impeccable ..." , p. 66 f.