[Between "aryanization" and liquidation. The fate of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association after the "Anschluss" in March 1938].
The "Anschluss" of Austria into Hitler-Germany was the temporary end of the Vienna Association (WPV). It was closed by the Gestapo, Hans Ehlich from the SD becoming the special commissioner and the chemist Anton Sauerwald the provisional administrator. The WPV's only chance to avoid losing all its property was to ask their colleagues of the German Psychoanalytic Society (DPG) for help. They were to take over the trusteeship of the WPV and incorporate it into the so-called Goring Institute. Carl Müller-Braunschweig was sent to Vienna as a representative of the DPG. This attempt failed because of the resistance of Rudolf Ramm, head of the Austrian Medical Association, of psychiatrist Heinrich von Kogerer and of Ehlich. In April 1938 Ehlich and Ramm decided on the liquidation of the WPV.
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Christiane
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Institut für Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte der Universität Wien. christiane.rothlaender@univie.ac.at
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