Josef Wastl

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Josef Wastl (born December 4, 1892 in Vienna , † October 11, 1968 there ) was an Austrian swimmer and anthropologist.

Life

Wastl attended elementary school in Vienna VIII and the secondary school in Vienna V. After completing a commercial course at the New Vienna Commercial Academy, he joined the civil service as a telegraph assistant at the telegraph directorate.

As a 19-year-old, Wastl took part in the Olympic Summer Games in Stockholm in 1912 as a member of the eight-person Austrian swimming team. In the competition over 200 meters chest he failed to make it to the semi-finals as fourth-placed in his preliminary run. He did not finish his run over 400 meters chest.

From June 1915 to December 1918 Wastl took part in the First World War. In 1919 he began studying anthropology and ethnography as well as prehistoric archeology with the approval of his superior authority ; he was a student of Rudolf Pöch and his successor Otto Reche . He supplemented his studies by attending medical, zoological, psychological and philosophical lectures. During this time, Wastl became a member of the Corps Hansea Vienna . In July 1925, with his dissertation on anthropological studies on 525 prisoners of war Bashkirs, he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In 1928 he was taken over as an official of the scientific service to the staff of the Federal Ministry of Education and assigned as a scientific assistant to the ethnographic department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna.

In 1932 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) and became the NSDAP organization leader for the Vienna Inner City district . Later he founded an illegal NSDAP company cell.

Since 1934 he was curator at the Natural History Museum and spy of the NSDAP. After the death of the previous director Viktor Lebzelter , he took over the scientific management of the anthropological department in 1936 and became head of the department in 1938. In September 1939 he headed the anthropological survey of 440 Jews interned in the Vienna stadium. On October 20, 1942, he was appointed director of the anthropological department. In 1945 he was removed from service "for political reasons" and retired in 1948. He was denazified as “less charged”. In 1949 he became a “judicial expert for human genetic biology” and headed the working group of anthropological-erbiological experts .

Wastl had been a member of the Anthropological Society in Vienna since 1919 , its treasurer from 1916 to 1928 and its 1 secretary from 1929 to 1945. From 1952 to 1958 and from 1966 until his death he was 1st Vice President of the company.

literature

  • Josef Wastl Hanseae Vienna EM † . In: Deutsche Corps-Zeitung 71 (1970), pp. 165f.
  • Johann Jungwirth: Director i. R. Dr. Josef Wastl †. In: Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna No. 74 (1970), pp. 685–688. ( Online ; PDF file; 803 kB)
  • Ernst Klee : German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-039310-4 , p. 138 f.
  • Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2nd edition of the updated edition Frankfurt a. M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 656.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Jungwirth: Director i. R. Dr. Josef Wastl †. , P. 685.
  2. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-039310-4 , p. 138.
  4. ^ Johann Jungwirth: Director i. R. Dr. Josef Wastl †. , P. 686.
  5. ^ Johann Jungwirth: Director i. R. Dr. Josef Wastl †. P. 687.
personal data
SURNAME Wastl, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian swimmer and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1968
Place of death Vienna