Eine typische österreichische Ärztebiographie? Annotationen zu Medizinalrat Dozent Dr. Edwin Albrich

This essay investigates the political biography of one of the leading Austrian post Warinternists. Edwin Albrich was an internationally acknowledged sanatorium doctorwhose patients originated from many countries and from all classes, kings as well asfarmers and workers. It is argued that it was the academic and professional medicaltraining he received under Nazi rule that made his postwar professional careerpossible. To prolong his career in the Second Austrian Republic Albrich had to pass afew obstacles. He did this with the support of the new democrat establishment ofwhich he became am member in due course

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