Karl Niederberger (politician, 1891)

Karl Niederberger (born February 20, 1891 in Kleinmünchen , Austria-Hungary , † November 5, 1975 in Linz , Austria ) was an Austrian politician and doctor .

life and career

Karl Niederberger was born on February 20, 1891 in the municipality of Kleinmünchen, a district of Linz that has been incorporated into Linz since 1923, as the son of an innkeeper. After attending high school in Linz, he began studying at the Faculty of Medicine of the German Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague , he in 1916 as a medical doctor from the doctorate was. On October 9, 1911, during his studies, he also joined the K. a. V. Saxo-Bavaria Prague in Vienna , where he carried the couleur name Gunnar and was a senior in the winter semester 1914/15 . His body fox during this time was the later Governor of Upper Austria, Heinrich Gleißner . In February Niederberger was sent to Chrudim in East Bohemia for hospital care before he was called up for military service with the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment "Ernst Ludwig Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine" No. 14 , the Linz House Regiment, after completing his studies . After the First World War , he worked as a community doctor in Mauthausen from 1918 and was involved in the medical profession at an early stage.

As early as 1920 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Economic Association of Doctors in Upper Austria and was also its chairman from 1934 to 1938. As a member of the board in 1924, he also founded the welfare fund that still exists today , which was actually only founded for Upper Austria, but is now being imitated throughout Austria. From that same year to 1938 Niederberger was also a member of the board of directors of the Reich Association of Austrian Medical Organizations and from 1934 to 1938 he was a board member of the Upper Austrian Medical Association and a member of the Upper Austrian Provincial Health Council. These functions in public life, as well as his close connection to Heinrich Gleißner, who is meanwhile acting as governor, are sometimes considered to be the reason that Niederberger, as a representative of the liberal professions, was appointed to the Upper Austrian state parliament . He then belonged to this in the XV. Election period from November 1, 1934 to March 18, 1938. In addition, he also acted in the local council of Mauthausen, whose local doctor he was from 1918 to 1945.

After the Second World War , Niederberger appeared as a general practitioner and head of an institute for physical therapy in Linz. Since he no longer worked at the K. a. After 1945 due to a divorce and remarriage. V. Saxo-Bavaria Prague in Vienna and had reported to the Austrian Cartel Association, he left the Austrian Cartel Association. In Linz he was again involved in the medical professional representation and ran for candidates with his own list of names. From 1950 to 1970 he was President of the Upper Austrian Medical Association and was also President of the Austrian Medical Association from 1953 to 1956 , of which he was Vice President from 1958 to 1959. His successor as President was Konrad Eberle , a member of the KÖHV Leopoldina Innsbruck , who also worked briefly in politics. During his time as President of the Austrian Medical Association, Niederberger held the office of President of the World Medical Association from 1955 to 1956 and was a member of the Supreme Medical Council from 1954 to 1956 .

In 1958 he was made an honorary member of the Medical Society for Upper Austria and in 1961 he was awarded the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . In addition, he was awarded honorary citizenship by the market town of Mauthausen. After suffering a stroke , Niederberger died on November 5, 1975 at the age of 84 in Linz and was buried at the St. Barbara cemetery there .

literature

• Academia 27. 1914/15, p. 614
• Edmund Guggenberger: Upper Austrian medical chronicle . Oswald-Möbius-Verlag , Vienna 1962, p. 268 .
• Harry Slapnicka : Upper Austria. The political leadership 1918 to 1938 (= contributions to the contemporary history of Upper Austria 3) . Linz 1976, p. 197 .
• Ernst Göttinger / Alfred Plettenbauer: Upper Austrian Medical Chronicle 1962–1997 . Linz 1999, p. 255 f .

Web links

• Karl Niederberger on the official website of the Austrian Cartel Association