Johannes Poigenfürst

Casa Austria, Timișoara 2010

Johannes Poigenfürst (born March 19, 1929 in Vienna ) is an Austrian trauma surgeon .

Life

Poigenfürst studied in Vienna and completed his specialist training from 1955 to 1962 in Vienna, Berlin , Sweden and England , and in 1967 and 1968 in New York . Poigenfürst has been a university professor since 1983, and one year later he became head of trauma surgery at the Lorenz Böhler Hospital in Vienna. He is co-editor of the magazines “Current Traumatology ” and “Trauma Surgery”. In 1993, Poigenfürst initiated the construction of the Casa Austria accident hospital in Timișoara .

In 1994, measures taken by his employer, as part of which his retirement was announced, sparked a debate on the Working Hours Act in hospitals (" Poigenfürst affair "). This public controversy was also reflected in the legal literature, which dealt with the situation of the constitutional state of Austria and its representatives at the time between freedom of the media and abuse of law . The dispute, in which the public was not always fully aware of the actual circumstances and their legal basis, is treated in the literature "... as a hard-to-beat example of the endangerment of the rule of law by the mass media ...".

Awards

July 4, 1995 he was named an honorary citizen of Timisoara appointed
2001 Poigenfürst was with the King Award Cardinal awarded
In 2005 he was awarded the Viktor Frankl Prize of the City of Vienna
2007 Commander of the Order of Faithful Service

On July 4th, 2008, he was awarded the Elisabeth Medal in gold, the highest award from Caritas Austria

Individual evidence

^ Theodor Tomandl , Heinz Mayer : The abused constitutional state, presented in the Poigenfürst case. Vienna 1995. Publications of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Legislative Practice and Legal Application. Volume 3. ISBN 3-214-06975-6 and
Theodor Tomandl: Rechtsstaat Österreich. Illusion or reality? Vienna 1997. ISBN 3-214-06978-0 . Pages 231-236.

^ Tomandl, Rule of Law. Page 231.

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personal data
SURNAME	Prince of Poigen, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian trauma surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna

[1] Theodor Tomandl , Heinz Mayer : The abused constitutional state, presented in the Poigenfürst case. Vienna 1995. Publications of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Legislative Practice and Legal Application. Volume 3. ISBN 3-214-06975-6 and
Theodor Tomandl: Rechtsstaat Österreich. Illusion or reality? Vienna 1997. ISBN 3-214-06978-0 . Pages 231-236.

[2] Tomandl, Rule of Law. Page 231.