Günther Weyrich

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Günther Weyrich (born July 6, 1898 in Ried am Riederberg ; † May 30, 1998 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was an Austrian forensic doctor , SS-Obersturmführer and university professor .

Life

Weyrich was the son of the school principal Otto Weyrich and his wife Emilie, née Bauseck. He took part in the First World War as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army and after the end of the war was taken prisoner by the Italians. He holds a medical degree and a doctorate after passing the state exam in 1925 at the University of Vienna Dr. med. He then completed his specialist training as a forensic doctor at the Forensic Medicine Institute of the University of Graz . He completed his habilitation and worked at the University of Graz from 1933, initially as a private lecturer and from 1936 as an associate professor.

After the annexation of Austria he became a member of the NSDAP and the Schutzstaffel (SS), where he rose to SS-Obersturmführer in 1944. He was also a member of the Nazi Lecturer Association .

During the Second World War , from 1940 to 1945 he was a full professor and director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology at the German Charles University . Together with the pathologist Herwig Hamperl, he autopsied the body of Reinhard Heydrich after the assassination attempt on the deputy Reich Protector .

After the end of the war he was an American prisoner of war until 1947 and then worked as a pathologist in Klagenfurt . From 1954 he was an associate professor and from 1960 a full professor and director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Freiburg . Weyrich retired in 1966 .

literature

  • Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 .
  • Petra Scheiblechner: "... politically it is impeccable ...". Short biographies of the female scientists working at the Medical Faculty of the University of Graz from 1938 to 1945 (= publications from the archive of the University of Graz. Volume 39). Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 2002, p. 270 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Scheiblechner: " ... politically he is impeccable ... short biographies of the female scientists working at the Medical Faculty of the University of Graz from 1938 to 1945 , Graz 2002, p. 270f.
  2. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 , p. 481.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 674.
  4. ↑ Defalque RJ Wright AJ. The Puzzling Death of Reinhard Heydrich. (PDF; 1 MB) Bull Anesth Hist 2009; 27: 1-7. PMID 20506755 .
  5. ↑ Nicolas Hardt: The attack in Prague in 1942 and surgery - between science and politics , in: German Society for Surgery (ed.): Mitteilungen , Heft 2/2012, pp. 157-164. ( PDF p. 53–60 ( Memento from March 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ))
personal data
SURNAME Weyrich, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian forensic doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Ried am Riederberg
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1998
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau