This text outlines the process by which Jewish members of the College of Physicians in Vienna (Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien) were disenfranchised and excluded subsequent to Austria's annexation to the German Reich (euphemistically called the Anschluss) in March 1938. At the beginning of 1938, 60% of the members and about one third of the board were of Jewish origin. The provisional director, Adolf Irtl (1867-1947), along with members of the Medical Faculty at the University of Vienna and the Nazi Party, discussed how to deal with and expel the Jewish members. Their membership rights were restricted from the outset. Following the Anschluss, the College of Physicians retroactively demanded "unpaid membership fees" from Jewish members, threatening their already precarious financial situation. In February 1939, the Medical Society of Vienna (Wiener Medizinische Gesellschaft) was founded as a Nazi replacement organization. Jewish members were no longer accepted. As part of the project "History of the College of Physicians in Vienna: the critical years 1930-1960", the names of all those who were expelled for antisemitic or political reasons have been documented. Some of these victims are presented here as examples.
Hlade et al. (Tue,) studied this question.