Franz Wurst

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Franz Wurst (born March 20, 1920 in Vienna ; † April 9, 2008 ) was an Austrian pediatrician . In 2002 he was tried and convicted of inciting the murder of his wife and the sexual assault of numerous underage patients.

Medical career

Wurst studied medicine with Hans Asperger and acquired his Dr. med. univ. at the University of Vienna . Even later he was proud to have been "the youngest doctor of the Third Reich ". Then he allowed himself to healing educationally oriented specialist for pediatrics and children neuropsychiatrie train. He practiced as a pediatrician and curative teacher . In 1948 he became director of the 1st Institute for Educational Aid in Vienna, and in 1951 he took over the management of the youth welfare and curative education service of the federal state of Carinthia in Klagenfurt .

In 1964 Wurst completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna in the field of paediatrics. In 1968 he became Primarius of the curative education department of the Klagenfurt Regional Hospital . Wurst was the author of several medical books. In 1971 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Vienna . He was also a visiting professor at the University of Klagenfurt and worked as a court expert .

Wurst, which was considered a "courted capacity", bore the title of Hofrat . In 1981 he received the Golden Medal of the City of Klagenfurt, which was revoked on November 18, 2003 by decision of the Klagenfurt City Senate and had to be returned to the city. In 1987 he received the Great Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Carinthia , and in 1998 the Paracelsusring . He was buried at the Döblinger Friedhof .

Criminal proceedings

For almost two decades, children reported sexual abuse through sausage to the staff of the curative education department , but they were not believed. A victim's lawsuit in 1982 against the sausage, which was considered “socially inviolable”, was “covered up” by the authorities. Only after some of his former patients had reported attacks to the Klagenfurt psychology professor Jutta Menschik-Bendele , in 2000, she made the ethics committee of the Carinthian State Association for Psychotherapy aware of the cases. Sausage justified his behavior as attention therapy to overcome fear of contact.

On December 8, 2000, Wurst's wife was found dead. In the course of the investigation, remand against Wurst was ordered on December 19 . In 2002 he was charged with inciting his godson Thomas H., whom he had sexually abused for years, to murder his wife because she stood in the way of this relationship. The reported occupational sexual assaults by sausage were also charged during the trial. In their plea , the public prosecutor's office accused Wurst of having acted out his pederastic inclinations during his medical work and of exploiting the helplessness of his victims to satisfy his own instincts. 38 former underage protected patients Wursts testified in court. They said they had been abused by him in several reform and convalescent homes.

Wurst was found guilty on both counts and sentenced on December 20, 2002 to 17 years in prison. The Paracelsus ring was withdrawn from him. The federal state of Carinthia and the responsible hospital operating company paid compensation totaling 540,000 euros to 48 victims of abuse.

After serving four years, Wurst was released due to incapacity to custody, which caused a great public stir. The then Carinthian Governor Jörg Haider described the early release as a “judicial scandal and an affront to the many victims of abuse”. Wurst spent the last year of his life in a nursing home in Vienna.

An opera about the Wurst case with a libretto by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek was planned for the 2006 Salzburg Festival . The project was not implemented.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Hansjörg Wassertheurer and Karla Kimeswenger: Development and Environment of the Country Child . A medical, psychological and sociological study from Carinthia. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna and Munich 1961.
  • The difficult child in the SOS Children's Village. SOS-Kinderdorfverlag, Innsbruck, Munich and Vienna 1962 (= New Paths. Contributions to current educational problems . Volume I. 7.)
  • as editor: The country child today and tomorrow. Contemporary questions of rural youth. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna and Munich 1963.
  • Environmental influences on growth and development. City and country children in Carinthia. Barth, Munich 1964 (= scientific youth studies . 8)
  • with Anna H. Hartmann and Günther Hartmann: Biological foundations of development and upbringing. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1971 (= publications on teacher training and teacher training . 3), ISBN 3-215-01236-7 .
  • Language development disorders and their treatment. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1973 etc., ISBN 3-215-02623-6 .
  • as editor with Heinz Rothbucher: Show me how life goes! Publication of the Salzburg International Pedagogical Working Conference: Conference report of the 33rd Working Conference 1984. Vol. 39. Salzburg 1985.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian Journal of History 14: 2 (2003), p. 107.
  2. ↑ a b Reinhard Müller: Friedrich Johann Latscher-Lauendorf (1884-1964). The "Priv. 'Austrian Sociological Institute" and the "Austrian Sociological Society" . In: Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria Newsletter 10 (1994), pp. 18f. Note 53.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Simone Seppele: A Question of Credibility - The representation of sexual abuse in the print media using the example of the pediatrician F. Wurst. Diploma thesis University of Klagenfurt 2005, pp. 77–87.
  4. ↑ a b c d Criminal case Wurst (report of March 14, 2007) on kaernten.orf.at (accessed on May 16, 2011).
  5. ^ Statistical yearbook of the state capital Klagenfurt 2005, p. XXIX; Simone Seppele: A question of credibility. Diploma thesis University of Klagenfurt 2005, p. 110; City of Villach: Statistisches Jahrbuch 22 (2003), p. 4 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. ). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.villach.at
  6. ^ Franz Wurst in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at
  7. ^ Hans Weiss: Crime scene children's home. An investigation report . Deuticke in Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-552-06198-9 , p. 84–86 ( Google preview ).
  8. ↑ Simone Seppele: A question of credibility. Diploma thesis University of Klagenfurt 2005, p. 109f.
  9. ^ Case Franz Wurst , report of March 15, 2007 on kaernten.orf.at (accessed on May 16, 2011).
  10. ↑ Haider outraged about Franz Wurst's release from prison: No mercy for child molesters! (Press release March 15, 2007; accessed May 16, 2011)
  11. ^ Franz Wurst died in a nursing home in Vienna (report of July 9, 2008) on kaernten.orf.at (accessed on May 16, 2011).
  12. ↑ Jelinek Neuwirth opera on "Fall Wurst" again before failure. Press agency release of June 30, 2004 (accessed May 16, 2011).
personal data
SURNAME Sausage, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2008