Johann Baumgartner (medical doctor)

Johann Baumgartner (born October 14, 1900 in Payerbach ; † June 1, 1976 in Linz ) was an Austrian medic and Nazi functionary.

education and profession

After attending elementary school in Payerbach, Baumgartner graduated from the state high school in Wiener Neustadt , where he passed his Matura on December 12, 1918 . From September 1919 he studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in medicine on May 7, 1926. He completed his hospital practice at St. Johanns Spital in Salzburg , where he was initially an aspirant in the medical department and then was employed in the gynecological-obstetric department for around six months. From November 1926 to September 1927 he was then a secondary doctor in surgery, after which he worked in gynecology until January 1928. His last position was from January to July 1928 in the medical department, from July 1928 to October 1928 as a secondary doctor in the children's department and again in October 1928 in the medical department.

After his hospital practice, Baumgartner went to the community of Neukirchen an der Enknach as a community doctor and worked there from 1929 to 1938. Furthermore, from March to July 1938 he was employed as a contract employee in the rank of medical council for the Upper Austrian provincial administration and was entrusted with the provision of medical services . From May 1, 1938, he also acted as provisional Gauamtsleiter at the Office for Public Health at the Gau leadership of the NSDAP Upper Danube.

After retiring as a contract employee of the governorate, Baumgartner gave up his work as a community doctor and moved to Waltherstrasse 20 in Linz in October 1938. From January 1939 he practiced as a general practitioner in Linz and on July 1, 1939 became an employee of the Reichsstatthalterei Oberdonau. After he had applied in November 1939 for the position of Head of Department III (People's Care), he was appointed Acting Head of Department III on May 11, 1940. However, as early as May 17, 1940, he had to enlist in Vienna for military service, where he was assigned to Substitute Medical Department 17.

After his discharge from military service on March 1, 1941, Baumgartner was appointed Medical Councilor and Government Director on April 8, 1941. On January 2, 1942, he was drafted a second time into the Wehrmacht and appointed medical officer on February 1, 1942. However, he retained his position as head of Department III. In addition to his function as head of department III, he also worked in sub-department III a (racial hygiene selection) from the end of 1943 due to the war-related staff shortage.

In his functions, Baumgartner was responsible for issuing marriage bans and permits in the Upper Danube Gau, and he also pushed for sterility .

After Baumgartner was taken prisoner of war as a member of the Wehrmacht at the end of the war, he was dismissed from the medical service on June 30, 1945 on the instructions of the American military government as an "illegal NSDAP member". He then completed a specialist training in dentistry and opened a private dental practice in Linz in 1949 after working at the Linz dental clinic at the Upper Austrian regional health insurance fund. In 1958 he was given an amnesty .

Functions

Baumgartner was not politically active until 1932, but that year he joined the NSDAP on May 29, 1932 (membership number 1,081,439). He was active in the local group Enknach and also joined the SA in 1932 . There he became chief medical officer in the SA group Alpenland and later medical brigade leader. He also joined the National Socialist Medical Association and became its district chairman for Upper Austria. After the " Anschluss of Austria " he took over the office of President of the Medical Association for Upper Danube in 1938 and in this function was also Gauamtsleiter for Public Health.

Web links

• Biography of Johann Baumgartner on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .