Ferdinand Reinhardt

Ferdinand Reinhardt (born January 31, 1882 in Hackenbuch ; † February 8, 1948 in Linz ) was an Austrian politician and doctor . In 1945 he was a member of the Upper Austrian provincial government .

Life

Reinhardt put in 1903 at the Imperial State Gymnasium in Ried im Innkreis , the Matura , and then studied medicine at the University of Vienna . He received his doctorate in 1909 as a doctor of general medicine and took the physics examination in 1911. He found his first job in May 1909 as an inpatient doctor at the Children's Hospital of the City of Vienna in Bad-Hall, and in October he moved to the garrison hospital in Linz as a deputy assistant doctor. In October 1910 he briefly returned to the Children's Hospital of the City of Vienna in Bad-Hall as a secondary physician, after taking the physics examination he entered the service of the Upper Austria Lieutenancy, where he initially worked as a medical assistant and then until 1913 as a doctor for the district administration of Grieskirchen and from 1913 until 1919 was employed as a doctor for the district administration Eferding. In 1916 he was appointed district doctor.

During the First World War, Reinhardt served as an army bacteriologist and commander of an epidemic hospital. In 1919 he switched to the office of the Upper Austrian provincial government, but continued to work as a district doctor, where he was appointed senior district doctor in 1920. In 1923 he changed from his work in Eferding as deputy head of the bacteriological diagnostic state laboratory in Linz and worked from July 1923 to July 1935 as state medical inspector for Upper Austria. He then acted as the head of the health department of the Upper Austrian provincial government, where he was deposed in 1938/39. From December 1939 he was head of the Linz-Land health department. In addition, he was an expert at the Oberversicherungsamt, clerk at the Reichsstatthalterei Oberdonau and clerk for medical matters in the health department. From 1944 he worked as the head of the health department, and from 1940 he was also a medical assessor at the Hereditary Health Supreme Court. After Johann Hager's death , he took over his seat in the Hereditary Health Court and was therefore represented in both instances of inheritance jurisdiction. As a result, he had to decide on judgments by the Hereditary Health Supreme Court in which he was already involved in the Hereditary Health Court.

Reinhardt was appointed state medical director during his activities in 1935, and in 1936 he was given the professional title of Hofrat . From 1939 he carried the official title of Upper Government and Medical Councilor. From 1937 to 1939 he also worked as director of the federal midwifery training institute in Linz, was chairman of the association of local doctors in Upper Austria and head of the state nursing school.

After the Second World War, he continued his career from May 1945 as a state medical director, where he was also a member of the Eigl state government (government officials) from May 17, 1945 to October 25, 1945 , where he was responsible for health care. He was on leave in November 1945 and decommissioned in 1946 and retired in 1947.

Awards

• Signum Laudis (1914)
• Medal of honor II class from the Red Cross
• Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order with the war decoration

literature

• Harry Slapnicka : Upper Austria - The political leadership from 1945. Linz 1989 (Contributions to the contemporary history of Upper Austria 12), p. 236 f.

Web links

• Biography of Ferdinand Reinhardt on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .