Karl Ursin

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Karl Ursin (born April 21, 1901 in Vienna , † February 3, 1973 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian physician and a leading figure in the völkisch wing of the Austrian migratory bird .

Life

Karl Ursin was the son of the Tulln neurologist and member of the National Council Josef Ursin and the grandson of the Tulln member of the Reichsrat and anti-Semite Josef Ursin of the same name .

Karl Ursin grew up with his parents, his brother Fritz and his sister Herta in Vienna and attended the Piarist high school . In 1913 Ursin first came into contact with the migratory birds and in 1916 joined the elite group 'Landfahrer'. In 1918/19 he became a school delegate at the head of the so-called 'middle school movement' in Vienna. In 1920 he passed the Abitur and studied medicine in Innsbruck and Marburg an der Lahn .

In Marburg he was a member of the Deutsche Burse founded by Johann Wilhelm Mannhardt , to which he remained lifelong. At Pentecost 1920 he entered into a relationship with the Young German Federation and made lifelong friendship with Hans Harmsen and Hans Wolf. Ursin took part in the Ludwigslust Bundestag of the Young German Confederation in 1920 and represented Young German ideas in Austria. From 1921 he published the magazine Der neue Bund together with Frank Glatzel and Karl Fischer .

In 1921, during his military service with the Upper Silesian Border Guard, he was involved in the suppression of the uprisings in Upper Silesia . Ursin was part of the Sturmzug Tirol of the Freikorps Oberland , which from 1921 formed the core of the Sturmabteilung (SA) in Bavaria . He was also imprisoned in Italy for a while because of his involvement in the South Tyrol conflict.

In 1921 he became Federal Leader of the Austrian Wandering Bird as Emil Hehenberger's successor. At that time he had left the 'Landfahrern' and had formed his own youth group called 'Wiking' in Vienna. In 1922 he headed the Salzburg Bundestag of Wandering Birds in the old style, but in the following year 1923 he held his own so-called 'boys' event', which took place without older members of the association. In the following years Ursin converted the old Austrian wandering bird in the spirit of the Bündian youth. In 1923 his office as federal youth leader was suspended for the sake of studies, which was represented by an office consisting of Ernst Ebner, Karl Thums and Rudolf Winkler . In 1924 Ursin was elected spokesman for the youth in Graz , was then again Federal Youth Leader and published the magazine Der Lehnsmann with Hehenberger . In the same year he joined the German university guild 'Freischar' with Norbert Gürke and Karl Thums under the leadership of Spann's student Walter Heinrich .

1925 joined Ursin as National Youth leader back in 1927 his doctorate he in Vienna Dr. med. and then went through further medical training in hospitals in Vienna and Zurich . From 1929 to 1938 he was a community doctor in Langau near Gaming in Lower Austria . In 1938 he returned to his parents' house in Tulln and ran a doctor's practice there until 1945.

During the Nazi dictatorship , Ursin combined several racial political functions in his person: He held the position of 'Gau Main Office Leader in the Racial Policy Office of the Gauleitung Niederdonau', he was also 'Landesleiter i. V. of the Reichsbund German Family '(RDF) and head of the German Society for Racial Hygiene for the Tulln section. In lectures he occupied himself z. B. with the "keeping the blood clean" and the "genetic health care and anti-social eliminations" as "positive measures of the National Socialist population policy". All of his lectures were essentially linked to the 'Jewish question'. "He qualified everything from the culture of the Aryan race Deviante as inferior, Jewish, or degenerate" and praised "the species-specific culture, which developed from the hereditary material of blood and spirit over centuries and millennia has become so and not otherwise."

1939 made Ursin military service as a doctor in a pioneer - Battalion , 1944-45, he was Volkssturm -Bataillonsarzt and head of the Federation courses . After the end of the Second World War , Ursin was imprisoned in Vienna and Kufstein because of his National Socialist connections . Then he went to Alpbach in Tyrol. From 1952 he was co-editor of the magazine Der neue Bund together with Herwigh Rieger and Karl Thums and in 1958 he was editor of the Mannhardt Festival together with Karl Kurt Klein and Franz Hieronymus Riedl . In 1961 he was again Federal Youth Leader of the Austrian Wandering Bird. In 1967 he received the title of Medical Councilor from the Federal President of Austria , and a few years later he was awarded the Hippocrates Medal for General Practitioners. He was a permanent member of the Free German Convention. In 1970 Ursin closed his practice and moved to live with his daughter in Lienz in East Tyrol . In 1972 he took part in the commemoration ceremonies for Rolf Gardiner in England and at Stettenfels Castle as a representative of Austria's wandering birds .

Ursin was married to the Tyrolean hiking bird guide Hilde Friedl and had four children with her.

Fonts

  • 1926: On the Austrian question . Augsburg: Bärenreiter-Verlag.
  • 1961: Ed. Fifty Years of the Austrian Wandering Bird. Festschrift 1911-1961 . Vienna: Austrian wandering bird.
  • 1958: Ed. With Karl Kurt Klein & Franz Hieronymus Riedl. Worldwide science of the people. People, world, education. Johann Wilhelm Mannhardt on his 75th birthday . Vienna / Wiesbaden: Rohrer.
  • 1958: "The Marburger Burse - a path to cosmopolitan Germanism". In: Karl Kurt Klein & Franz Hieronymus Riedl & Karl Ursin (eds.). Worldwide science of the people. People, world, education. Johann Wilhelm Mannhardt on his 75th birthday . Vienna / Wiesbaden: Rohrer. Pp. 23-36.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schwarz, Peter (1997). Tulln is Jewish! The history of the Tulln Jews and their fate from 1938 to 1945: persecution - expulsion - extermination . Vienna: Löcker. P. 151 f.
personal data
SURNAME Ursin, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian medic and personality of the völkisch wing of the Austrian wandering bird
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1973
Place of death Salzburg