Leopold Breitenecker

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Leopold Breitenecker (born April 14, 1902 in Vienna ; † November 22, 1981 there ) was an Austrian forensic doctor .

Life

Leopold Breitenecker studied at the University of Vienna and obtained his doctorate in 1928. med. During his studies he worked for Carl Sternberg at the Vienna General Policlinic ; In 1929 he became his assistant. In 1930 he switched to Albin Haberda (1868–1933) at the Vienna Institute for Forensic Medicine , where he later became a student of Fritz Reuters (1875–1959). He was a member of the fraternity Markomannia and the Free Corps "Ostmark". In 1931/32 he joined the NSDAP . He completed his habilitation in 1939 and became an associate professor at the Institute for Forensic Medicine in 1944. During the time of National Socialism in Austria he was an employee of the Racial Politics Office of the Gauleitung Vienna and a doctor for racial and hereditary training for the Hitler Youth .

After the end of the Second World War , he was suspended from university service. He then worked from 1945 to 1956 as a prosector in the Wiener Neustadt KH. In 1956 he was appointed head of the Public Health Office in the Federal Ministry for Social Administration .

From 1953 he was a private lecturer, from 1956 an associate professor and from 1959 to 1973 as a full professor on the board of the Forensic Medicine Institute in Vienna. He was also a regional court doctor and dean of the medical faculty in 1964/65 . In addition, he was President of the State Medical Council and founded the Austrian Society for Forensic Medicine , of which he became Honorary President. He was followed by Wilhelm Holczabek . In 1967 he was President of the V International Academy of Legal Medicine Congress in Vienna.

Breitenecker wrote writings on the pathology of sudden death, violent death, carbon oxide and alcohol intoxication, medical malpractice, silicosis , medical training and articles on medical history. He was editor of the "Contributions to Forensic Medicine", co-editor of the "German Journal for Forensic and Social Medicine", member of the Supreme Sanitary Council , the international academy for forensic and social medicine and the Austrian study society for atomic energy.

Breitenecker said in an exonerating report in 1967, reimbursed for a trial against gassing doctors about gas chamber death : "It is certainly one of the most humane types of killing ever."

He was buried at the Döblinger Friedhof .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Registration form: Leopold Breitenecker, born April 14 , 1902 , Vienna Archive Information System, accessed on November 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b IALM President (1961 - 1964): Professor Leopold Breitenecker (Austria) , website of the International Academy of Legal Medicine, accessed on November 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ Ingrid Arias: The Viennese forensic medicine in the service of National Socialist biopolitics. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . 2nd Edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 74.
  5. ↑ April 13, 1967: Leopold Breitenecker's 65th birthday , Rathauskorrespondenz (rk), website of the City of Vienna, accessed on November 19, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ks 1/66 GStA General Public Prosecutor Frankfurt a. M.
  7. ^ Grave site Leopold Breitenecker , Vienna, Döblinger Friedhof, Group 26, No. 28.
  8. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
  9. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Breitenecker, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian coroner
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1981
Place of death Vienna