Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hans Langer

Hans Langer is born as the son of a k.k. state railway officer who is the last station manager at the Kaiser-Franz-Josephs-Bahnhof in Vienna and who died deadly at the beginning of December 1912 when Langer just became five years old. After his Matura at the Klosterneuburger Gymnasium in 1926, he began his studies at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna (Dr. med. 1932), where he joined the student association Welfia.

After studying, Hans Langer starts training as a specialist in dentistry and in 1934 receives an assistant office at the Vienna University Hospital for Dentistry. In the same year he is sent for the public service to the congregation of Klosterneuburg, to which he belongs until 1937. He is also a member of the Patriotic Front. Because of his political attitude, he will be released after joining and declared invalid.

After the end of World War II, Hans Langer is rehabilitated at the University Hospital. As a result, he embarked on a scientific career and joined the Department of Dentistry in 1959. In 1961, he is appointed as the ordinary university professor of dentistry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna and exercises this function until his death.