Philipp Schneider (doctor)

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Philipp Schneider (born April 20, 1896 in Vienna , † February 9, 1954 in St. Johann im Pongau ) was an Austrian forensic doctor and university professor.

Life

After attending elementary school and high school, Schneider completed his school career in his hometown in 1914 with the Matura . He then began studying medicine at the University of Vienna , which he interrupted after the outbreak of World War I because he was a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army . After the war and release from Italian prisoner of war he took his medical studies again, which he in 1921 with state examination and doctoral Dr. med. completed. He then worked as an assistant at the II. Surgical University Hospital and from the beginning of January 1923 at the Institute of Forensic Medicine under Albin Haberda busy, where he joined in February 1923, a record of thallium poisoning habilitated .

Schneider, who had been a National Socialist since the early 1930s, joined the NSDAP shortly before the NSDAP was banned in Austria in early May 1933. Since the summer of 1934 he was a member of the SS , where he was on the staff of the SS-Ober-section doctor Donau. Because of his Nazi activities, he had to leave Austria at the time of Austrofascism and moved to the National Socialist German Reich . From January 1937 he worked as an introduction to the Forensic Medicine Institute of the University of Göttingen , where in August 1938 he temporarily took over the chair of forensic medicine as the successor to Berthold Mueller who had moved to Heidelberg .

After the annexation of Austria , he was appointed to the chair of forensic medicine at the University of Vienna instead of acting head Anton Werkgartner in November 1938 and became head of the local institute for forensic medicine . Schneider, who after the annexation of Austria unsuccessfully asked the party leadership for a low party membership number ( membership number 6,143,333) corresponding to his early entry into the party in Austria, was also deputy chairman of the Vienna Medical Society. In addition to managing the institute, he took over the management of the electropathological museum attached to the institute. Schneider also worked as an appraiser for the Vienna Higher Hereditary Health Court . Within the SS he rose to SS-Obersturmführer in June 1939.

"The thesis that science has nothing to do with politics and worldview ultimately led to the fact that alien influence spread and universities could become breeding grounds for intellectual education."

- Philipp Schneider 1939 in the Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Schneider was also a member of a twelve-person forensic medical commission that examined the exhumed corpses of the Vinnitsa massacre in the Soviet Union in July 1943 and confirmed the autopsy findings of the local forensic doctor Gerhard Schrader . As a result, the commission members signed a protocol that established the Soviet perpetrators for this crime. During the war he was a medical officer in the Wehrmacht's reserve and was also one of the advisory forensic doctors in the army.

During the Second World War , examinations for the Reich Criminal Police, the Wehrmacht and other authorities were carried out at the Vienna Institute for Forensic Medicine . In the course of expanding his area of ​​responsibility, Schneider was transferred to his chair in the fall of 1943 as head of the Central Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Security Police . Schneider, who was supposed to investigate the serial killer Bruno Lüdke during his stay in Vienna, rejected human experiments on Lüdke and his liquidation in January 1944.

After the end of the war, Schneider was immediately dismissed from university and was then briefly interned in America. As part of the War Victims Welfare Act, he was certified as completely incapable of work and, after his objection to the classification as an offender under the Prohibition Act , he was classified as a minor offender in November 1948. He moved to Sweden with his Swedish wife, where he worked at the Forensic Medicine Institute in Stockholm. Schneider died on his return to Austria. One of his main research areas was toxicology. He was the author of over 50 publications.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , pp. 136-137.
  2. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 142.
  3. ^ Claudia Andrea Spring: Between War and Euthanasia: Forced Sterilization in Vienna 1940–1945 . Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78321-3 . P. 226
  4. ↑ Quoted from Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , St. Johann im Pongau 2007, p. 553
  5. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 315.
  6. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 381.
  7. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , pp. 250-251.
  8. ^ Ingrid Arias: The Viennese forensic medicine in the service of National Socialist biopolitics - project report (PDF; 850 kB)
  9. ^ Claudia Andrea Spring: Between War and Euthanasia: Forced Sterilization in Vienna 1940–1945 . Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78321-3 . P. 289
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian forensic doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1954
Place of death St. Johann im Pongau