Ferdinand von Neureiter

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Ferdinand Edler von Neureiter (born July 23, 1893 in Budapest , † June 7, 1946 in Bad Peterstal in the Black Forest ) was a forensic doctor, medical officer in the Reich Health Office and professor at the University of Strasbourg .

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Coat of arms of the von Neureiter family, 1918.

Ferdinand von Neureiter junior was the son of the engineer Ferdinand Neureiter senior, director of the Austrian Siemens-Schuckertwerke , to whom the Austrian Emperor Karl I had bestowed the hereditary nobility on April 9, 1918 as Nobler von Neureiter . The corresponding nobility diploma was issued on July 9, 1918 in Vienna.

Ferdinand von Neureiter jun. completed his school days up to the Matura in Vienna . He began studying medicine at the University of Vienna in 1912 , which he interrupted from August 1914 to May 1919 due to the war due to his participation in the First World War . In July 1920 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . After his assistantship at the anatomical institute of the University of Vienna, Albin Haberda (1868–1933) became assistant at the forensic medical institute there. In January 1923 he was appointed full professor of forensic medicine at the University of Riga , where he worked until 1937. Among other things, he wrote two textbooks in Latvian. In 1927 he became - alongside the criminal lawyer Adolf Lenz from Graz and the Straubing prison doctor Theodor Viernstein - one of the founders and deputy director of the Criminal Biological Society .

He was a member of the NSDAP and the National Socialist Medical Association . In 1933 he was elected a member of the Forensic Medicine Section of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

From 1937 to 1938 von Neureiter headed the forensic biology research center in the Reich Health Office and from 1937 the forensic biology service of the Reich Justice Administration. He also held a professorship in forensic biology at the University of Berlin . In July 1939 he became a full professor at the newly created chair for forensic medicine at the University of Hamburg . He gave his inaugural lecture on “Crime and Inheritance”. During the Second World War in 1941 he was appointed to the University of Strasbourg, which was founded by the National Socialists in the same year. At the beginning of 1944 he fell seriously ill due to cancer and tuberculosis and had to go to a sanatorium, where he died on June 7, 1946.

Ferdinand von Neureiter is regarded as an important theoretician of criminal biology and at times also an enforcer of National Socialist criminal policy. As early as 1929 he advocated the compulsory preventive detention of dangerous habitual criminals .

Fonts (selection)

  • Knowledge of foreign knowledge, acquired in an unknown way: An experimental investigation. Klotz, Gotha 1935.
  • Forensic biology (= handbook for the public health service. Volume 14). Heymanns, Berlin 1940.
  • Concise dictionary of forensic medicine and scientific forensics. Edited and edited in association with numerous experts at home and abroad. by Ferdinand von Neureiter, Friedrich Pietrusky , Eduard Schütt . Springer, Berlin 1940.

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  1. ↑ Arno Kerschbaumer, Nobilitations under the reign of Emperor Karl I / IV. Károly király (1916–1921) . Graz 2016, ISBN 978-3-9504153-1-5 , p. 149.
  2. ^ A b Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , pp. 166-167.
  3. ↑ Wolfram Fischer: Exodus von Wissenschaften aus Berlin , Volume 7 of the research report of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, 1987, Walter de Gruyter, 1994, ISBN 3-11013945-6 , p. 520.
  4. ↑ Christian Bachhiesl, The case of Josef stretch. A convict, his professor and the study of personality (= field research, vol. 1), LIT-Verlag, Vienna a. a .: 2006, p. 234f.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 434.
  6. ↑ Member entry of Ferdinand von Neureiter at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 23, 2013.
  7. ↑ Michael Zimmermann : Rassenutopie und Genozid , 1996, p. 140.
  8. ↑ Jürgen Simon: Forensic biology and forced sterilization. Eugenischer Rassismus 1920-1945 , Münster et al.: Waxmann, 2001, p. 183ff.
  9. ^ Heidrun Kaupen-Haas, Christian Saller: Scientific racism: Analyzes of a continuity in the human and natural sciences , Campus Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-59336228-7 , p. 279.
  10. ^ Fischer, Hierholzer & Hubenstorf: Exodus of sciences from Berlin. S. 559 Gruyter, 1994 ISBN 3110139456 full text .
  11. ^ Neureiter: On the law project on the workhouse, on preventive detention and on the appointment of welfare workers for those released from prison. Rigasche Z. Lawyer. 3, 234: - 244 (1929). (Referred to in: International Journal of Legal Medicine 15 (2); 1930 doi: 10.1007 / BF01759859 ).
personal data
SURNAME Neureiter, Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neureiter, Ferdinand Edler von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Forensic doctor, medical officer in the Reich Health Office and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1946
Place of death Bad Peterstal in the Black Forest