Heinrich Schur

Born:	05-11-1871
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled teacher

Heinrich SCHUR (born on May 11th, 1871 in Nachod, died on November 21st, 1953 in Vienna) was lecturer ('Dozent') for “Innere Medizin” at the Medical School of the University of Vienna. He was persecuted in times of Nazism as a Jew lost his position and was thrown out of the university on April 22nd, 1938. He had studied medicine at the German University in Prague (Dr. med. 1894) and had moved to Vienna's Central Hosptial (AKH) as "Aspirant" and "Sekundararzt". 1902-1905 he was "Assistent" at the "Allgemeine Poliklinik" in Vienna. In 1905 he habilitated in internal medicine at the University of Vienna and became head of the medical department of the "Mariahilfer Ambulatorium" (1905-1910). From 1910 on he was head of the first medical clinic at the "Krankenhaus der Wiener Kaufmannschaft" - until 1938. In 1915 he became extraordinary professor (außerordentlicher Professor) at the University of Vienna. He published about 100 articles in medical handbooks and journals. Protected through a marriage with his non-jewish wife Maria Josefa he could survive in Vienna. In times of National-Socialism he was head of the internal medical department at the Jewish hospital in Vienna (Malzgasse). After the end of National-Socialist regime he was announced to the first president of the re-established Jewish Community of Vienna by Sate Secretary Ernst Fischer in May 1945 (in September he resigned).

Lit.: MERINSKY 1980, 244-246; UB MedUni Wien/van Swieten Blog, Evelyn Adunka, Die Vierte Gemeinde. Die Wiener Juden in der Zeit von 1945 bis heute, Wien u. Berlin 2000, TEICHL 1951, information from Barbara Sauer (Projekt "Ärzte und Ärztinnen in Österreich 1938-1945. Entrechtung, Vertreibung, Ermordung")

Herbert Posch