Dr. Friedrich Muschl
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Suspension from medical studies in 1938
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Curriculum Vitae
Friedrich Muschl was born in Vienna, the son of a printer at the National Bank. He attended elementary school in Vienna and then the Bundesrealgymnasium Wien XVII, where he graduated in 1935. In the same year, he enrolled in medicine at the University of Vienna and joined the student fraternity Rudolfina in Vienna.
As a medical student, Friedrich Muschl witnessed the fall of Austria as a result of the invasion of the German Wehrmacht in March 1938. As a member of a Catholic student fraternity, he was very critical of National Socialism. He shares this view with four other fellow students who are also members of Catholic student fraternities. The five of them attend lectures and make no secret of their opposition to National Socialism.
On Monday, November 28, 1938, when the five medical students Erich Pakesch and Norbert Klech, both members of the Franco-Bavaria student fraternity, René Grundmann and Friedrich Muschl, both members of the Rudolfina student fraternity, and Walter Ruff, a member of the Amelungia student fraternity, attend a lecture at the University of Vienna, word has already spread about their decidedly dissident behavior. They are observed by the later SS-Hauptsturmführer Viktor Marounek, the later SS-Hauptsturmführer Wolfgang Rabe, the SA-Rottenführer Josef Lack and the SS men Ignaz Artner, Lothar Böhm, Ernst Zartl and Friedrich Völkl.
I was informed by various party comrades that in Prof. Schürer's lecture, the CVers caused public annoyance with their obstinate behavior. Since it has been customary since the upheaval for the audience to stand up at the beginning of the lecture and return the professor's German greeting, the former leading C.C. members believed they had to express their hatred of National Socialism by not giving this greeting, not standing up and expressing their disapproval of such new introductions with hand gestures. [
In fact, the university students Muschl, Pakesch, Ruff and Rene Grundmann, who behaved in the manner described, were sitting on the last bench. [...] After Prof. Schürer had finished his lecture with the German salute, the CVer Norbert Klech also did the rest by putting on his hat during the salute and turning his back on the professor.
After the lecture, the five fellow students are confronted by the mob, beaten up and thrown down the stairs of the university. After their names were recorded, they were suspended from the university and disciplinary proceedings were initiated. They are banned from entering the University of Vienna, which is why they are no longer able to sit any examinations this semester.
In the course of the disciplinary proceedings, they are found guilty on February 23, 1939 of "not having properly rendered the German salute to Prof. Schürer [...] after the end of the lecture". They were punished with an admonition and warning from the dean and were not given credit for the semester.
After this, Friedrich Muschl was able to continue his studies despite being called up, obtained his doctorate in 1940, became an assistant doctor at Lainz Hospital and specialized in gynaecology. In the year of his doctorate, he married and subsequently became the father of two children.
After the end of the war, he moved to Krems with his family in 1949, opened a practice for gynaecology, became a consultant in the obstetrics department at Krems hospital and ran the nursing school there.
He finally retired in 1981. In 2001, he suffers a stroke and is initially cared for at home by his wife, but later has to move into a nursing home in Krems. He died there at the age of 90.
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Archiv der Universität Wien,
Privatarchiv Bernhard Muschl
