Otto Reisch

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Otto Reisch (born October 23, 1891 in Linz , † 1977 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian psychiatrist and T4 expert .

Life

After completing his school career, Reisch studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck and was awarded a doctorate in 1924 at the university there. med. PhD . At the anatomical institute he was a demonstrator during his student days. From 1924 to 1926 Reisch was a Rockefeller Foundation fellow . He then worked from 1926 to 1936 as an assistant doctor at the Physiological Institute and later at the Psychiatric-Neurological Clinic.

Reisch became involved in the NSDAP early on . Before the party was banned in 1933, he submitted the NSDAP membership application to the local branch in Kitzbühel . He was dismissed from the University of Innsbruck in 1936 for his National Socialist activities. At the end of 1936 he went to Berlin , where he was recognized as a "political refugee". In Berlin he then worked until March 1938 as a senior physician in the neurological department at the Robert Koch Hospital .

time of the nationalsocialism

After the " annexation of Austria " to the German Reich , he returned to Austria, where he was initially charged with rebuilding the health system during a two-year activity in Vienna as a city ​​councilor . He was a consultant for the implementation of the Ordinance on Professional Civil Servants in all schools, universities and medical centers in the Ostmark . With effect from January 1, 1940, he was appointed associate professor and in March 1940 began his work as director of the Psychiatric-Neurological Clinic in Graz , which he held until May 1945.

From April 30, 1940 to July 2, 1940, he worked as a T4 expert as part of the T4 campaign . From 1940 to 1945 Reisch was a member of the Hereditary Health Supreme Court for Styria and Carinthia and therefore actively involved in the implementation of the Sterilization Act .

After the end of the war

Between 1950 and 1977 Reisch resumed his work as a psychiatrist in Innsbruck.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Eberhard Gabriel and Wolfgang Neugebauer: From forced sterilization to murder. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. Part II. Böhlau, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-99325-X , p. 407.
  2. ↑ a b University of Granz, University Archives: Clinic and Chair for Neurology and Psychiatry - Otto Reisch , accessed on December 19, 2019.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Freidl et al. (Ed.): Medicine and National Socialism in Styria. 2001, Innsbruck: Studien-Verlag.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 490.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee : "Euthanasia" in the Nazi state . 11th edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt / M. 2004, ISBN 3-596-24326-2 , p. 228.
  6. ^ Wolfgang Freidl and Werner Sauer: Nazi science as an instrument of destruction. Facultas Universitätsverlag, Vienna 2004, p. 211.
personal data
SURNAME Reisch, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychiatrist and T4 reviewer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH 1977
Place of death innsbruck