Rudolf Pertassek

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Rudolf Pertassek (born December 30, 1917 in Graz ; † May 11, 2007 there ) was a doctor and writer .

Life

Rudolf Pertassek spent most of his life in the city of his birth. In 1935 he passed the matriculation examination at the Academic Gymnasium in Graz and began studying medicine at the Karl-Franzens University . He deepened his training at the medical faculty of the University of Vienna and received his doctorate from the University of Graz on June 21, 1940 as a doctor of general medicine.

First Pertassek was Burgenland provincial hospital in Oberwart worked, he was in 1941 for the Wehrmacht convened and Styria Zeltweg in the Air Force trained for the war effort. Further stations were Romania, Crete and Saloniki in Greece, where he was deployed as a military doctor. He last fought in the spring of 1945 on the Oder Front and in northern Germany, where he was taken prisoner. After his release from captivity, which he had to spend in Schleswig-Holstein , he returned to his hometown and worked as a regular doctor at the regional hospital in Graz until the summer of 1948 .

In January 1949, Dr. Rudolf Pertassek self-employed as a general practitioner and opened his own ordination in Graz- Straßgang . He ran this doctor's practice until he retired in April 1987.

After his retirement, Pertassek devoted himself more to studying the history of Lower Styria . His maternal ancestors owned a large leather factory in Pettau (now Ptuj in Slovenia ) until the expropriation in 1945, and he himself regularly spent his holidays there as a teenager. He knew from his own perspective the political, social, economic and cultural life of this city and the former "Styrian Unterland" from the time between the two world wars.

Honors

  • Appointment to the Medical Council
  • Golden doctoral degree from Karl Franzens University
  • Citizen of the City of Graz

Works