Anton Werkgartner

Anton Werkgartner (born June 5, 1890 in Mauthausen ; † November 1, 1970 in Graz ) was an Austrian forensic doctor .

Life

Werkgartner attended high school in Linz . During the First World War he was seriously wounded on the Italian front and was awarded the Silver Medal for Bravery and the Gold Cross of Merit. On July 10, 1919 , he received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Vienna and soon after became Albin Haberda’s assistant . He worked as a secondary doctor in the Sophienspital . After his habilitation in forensic medicine in 1927, he became a professor in 1928.

Werkgartner was close to National Socialism from an early age . In 1930 he was a member of a National Socialist company cell organization . In 1936 he became a member of the (illegal) NSDAP and SA and supported the NSDAP during the illegal period by donating money. After the so-called annexation of Austria to the German Reich , he was initially acting head of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Vienna . In 1939 he became an associate professor at the University of Graz and held this post until 1946. He was also a judge at the Hereditary Health Court and from 1940 to 1945 at the Hereditary Health Supreme Court for Styria and Carinthia. During his professorship in Graz he was friends with Bernward Josef Gottlieb , the head of the Graz Medical Academy of the SS , where SS doctors were trained.

After the end of the Second World War , Werkgartner was dismissed as professor in 1946, but was again associate professor and director of the Forensic Medicine Institute at the University of Graz from 1952 to 1956. Then he worked until his retirement in 1961 as a full professor of forensic medicine at the University of Graz , where he was also dean of the medical faculty in 1956 . In 1958 he became president of the German Society for Sexual Research . In 1959 he became chairman of the German Society for Forensic and Social Medicine. In 1962 he was awarded the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class .

Act

Anton Werkgartner wrote numerous publications in scientific journals, including several on the inheritance of blood groups .

In the trial against Philipp Halsmann , he acted as a court expert , also (together with his student and later successor Wolfgang Maresch ) in the 1960 trial of the Jaccoud affair .

On the night of July 25, 1934, he and his assistant Karl Szekely examined the body of the murdered Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in the Federal Chancellery in Vienna . In 1965, Werkgartner stated that the second ball was missing and that it was probably stuck in the spine. It is therefore not possible to deduce from the forensic medical report that was drawn up under time pressure at the time which was the first shot fired at Dollfuss.

Fonts

To determine the blunt cutting tools from the wound findings , 1938
Determination of the time of death from the vegetation at the corpse discovery site , 1929
Gunshot wounds in street fighting , 1928
Killing of wife by strangling and pretending to commit suicide by hanging. Also a case of coffin birth , 1926
Strange skin injuries caused by gunshots from attached self-loading pistols , 1924

literature

Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 .
Leopold Breitenecker : Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Anton Werkgartner on his 70th birthday . Volume 21 of articles on forensic medicine, Vienna: Deuticke, 1961
Leopold Breitenecker: Anton Werkgartner on his 70th birthday , in: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 72, 1960, p. 981

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 669, with reference to Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the Hakenkreuz , Leipzig 2002.
^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 , p. 134.
^ Wolfgang Freidl and Werner Sauer: Nazi science as an instrument of destruction. Facultas Universitätsverlag, Vienna 2004, p. 211.
^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 670.
↑ The section report is printed by Friedrich Herber: Forensic Medicine under the Swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 , pp. 380-381. There also contributions to the discussion about the missing second ball.
↑ Werkgartner's letter to the Austrian Institute for Contemporary History in January 1965, cited by: Gerhard Jagschitz: The Putsch: the National Socialists in Austria in 1934 , Styria Verl., Graz, 1976, pp. 117–122, ISBN 3-222-10884-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Werkgartner, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian coroner
DATE OF BIRTH	June 5, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mauthausen
DATE OF DEATH	November 1, 1970
Place of death	Graz

[Klee669-1] Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 669, with reference to Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the Hakenkreuz , Leipzig 2002.

[2] Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 , p. 134.

[3] Wolfgang Freidl and Werner Sauer: Nazi science as an instrument of destruction. Facultas Universitätsverlag, Vienna 2004, p. 211.

[4] Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 670.

[5] The section report is printed by Friedrich Herber: Forensic Medicine under the Swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 , pp. 380-381. There also contributions to the discussion about the missing second ball.

[6] Werkgartner's letter to the Austrian Institute for Contemporary History in January 1965, cited by: Gerhard Jagschitz: The Putsch: the National Socialists in Austria in 1934 , Styria Verl., Graz, 1976, pp. 117–122, ISBN 3-222-10884-6 .