Unv.-Prof. DDDr. Albert Niedermeyer

Albert Niedermeyer spent his youth in Silesia. After graduating from high school, he first studied biology in Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1910, before moving to Wroclaw to study medicine, which he completed with a doctorate in 1916. After the First World War, he enrolled at the Faculty of Law in Wroclaw and was awarded his doctorate in law in 1924. He then began his medical career as a doctor in Greifswald [Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania]. From there he returned to Silesia, first to Schönberg (Lauban district)/Lower Silesia [Sulikow] and then to the women's clinic in Breslau. From 1927, he worked as a registered specialist in gynaecology in Görlitz.

Because Albert Niedermeyer protested against the forced sterilization carried out in the German Reich in 1934 and rejected abortions, he was stripped of his beds and then also his license to practice. This jeopardized his continued medical practice and he fled to Austria. From 1934 to 1938, he was employed by the Welfare and Welfare Office of the City of Vienna. His family followed him to Vienna when he was granted Austrian citizenship.

At the time of the Anschluss, Albert Niedermeyer was working in the Family Office of the City of Vienna. He was arrested by the Gestapo on March 25, 1938 and taken to the police building on Rossauer Lände. In his autobiography "Wahn, Wissenschaft und Wahrheit" (Delusion, Science and Truth), one of the reasons given by Albert Niedermeyer for his arrest was that the National Socialists had accused him of having "opposed the sterilization law on religious and scientific grounds". In his autobiography, he had "given a completely falsified and 'Romanized' account of the Reich idea and thus sabotaged the centuries-long struggle of the German people for the 'Reich'."

The pastoral medicine and social hygiene he advocated was - according to the further accusation - "an 'ongoing assassination attempt on the spiritual foundations of the Third Reich'". His autobiography was banned in the German Reich and Austria from 1938.

On June 16, 1938, Albert Niedermeyer was transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After his release on September 19, 1938, he was banned from publishing Since the Gestapo objected to Albert Niedermeyer's conscription by the military district command at the beginning of 1940, he was then obliged to work as a civilian contract doctor in a military hospital until 1943. He also ran a private practice at home.