Edwin Albrich

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Edwin Albrich (born July 13, 1910 in Schruns , † September 18, 1976 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian internist. He was a lecturer in internal medicine at the University of Vienna and a practicing internist in Schruns. During the Nazi era he was an early member of the NSDAP and the SA , for which he was convicted in 1946 and given an amnesty in 1948.

Life

Edwin Albrich was born as the son of the honorary citizen and state veterinarian Karl August Albrich in Schruns and graduated from the local elementary school. After graduating from high school in Dornbirn, he studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck . In 1929 he became a member of the Corps Gothia Innsbruck . After completing his doctorate in Innsbruck, he came to Professor Hans Eppinger in Vienna. Albrich joined the NSDAP and SA in 1933 and studied internal medicine with Eppinger, who committed suicide before his trial at the Nuremberg medical trial. He was most recently SA-Hauptsturmführer and is said to be the personal physician of the Romanian fascist prime minister during the Second World WarIon Antonescu .

In 1943 Albrich became a lecturer in internal medicine at the University of Vienna . Already in his inaugural address he spoke - ahead of his time - about the importance of early diagnosis and natural healing methods.

After the war he was banned from practicing his profession, but in 1948 he was again licensed as an internist due to the work of Vorarlberg Governor Ulrich Ilg .

From 1949 to 1950 Albrich headed a sanatorium for internal medicine in Bad Röthis . In 1950 he founded the “Kuranstalt Montafon” in Schruns , which was then the most modern health resort in Austria with Kneipp facilities, massage and therapeutic gymnastics, new types of physiotherapy facilities, medical laboratories and an internal practice. A year later this was expanded to include a spa hotel.

Albrich made many trips abroad to care for his numerous prominent patients. In view of the very important further medical training, he founded the Society of Doctors in Vorarlberg and was a co-founder of the Rotary Club Vorarlberg.

Albrich also dealt intensively with local political issues and took care of the local associations. In 1949, for example, he founded the Montafon Ski Club as the umbrella organization for the local winter sports clubs . Among other things, this was the prerequisite for international ski races in the Montafon (such as the gold key races ).

Awards

literature

  • Wolfgang Weber: Drhabil. Edwin Albrich. Can be used as a doctor at any time. In: Wolfgang Proske (Ed.): Perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Volume 5. Nazi victims from the Lake Constance area , Kugelberg, Gerstetten 2016, pp. 20–34. ISBN 978-3-945893-04-3 .
  • Krista Vonbank: Tafernen on Landstraß and Sömersteig ... Montafon inns with a history . Russ, Schwarzach 1997. ISBN 3-85258-036-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 44/209.
  2. ^ Online presence at Kulturforum Bregenzerwald Wolfgang Weber: The Bregenzerwald Doctors, National Socialism and Nazi Euthanasia , lecture October 12, 2007, pages 3 and 4, PDF
  3. ^ "Hiking suggestions" by Dr. E. Albrich (1965)
personal data
SURNAME Albrich, Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian internist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Schruns
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1976
Place of death innsbruck