Dr. med. univ. Karl Fellinger

Karl Fellinger was born the son of an iron turner and graduated with distinction from the humanistic grammar school in Linz in 1923. He then studied at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Vienna, was accepted into the Norica student association and graduated in 1929.

After completing his doctorate, Karl Fellinger spent two years as an assistant doctor at the Institute of Pathology and Anatomy in Vienna. In 1931 he came to the II. Medical University Clinic. In 1937, Karl Fellinger became head of the Metabolism Department at the Municipal Hospital in Vienna-Lainz and habilitated at the Vienna Medical Faculty for Internal Medicine in the same year.

After the Anschluss, Karl Fellinger was dismissed as a primary physician and his teaching license was revoked. He continued to work as a doctor and was drafted into the German army as a reserve doctor in 1940. He initially took part in the Russian campaign, was wounded and from 1943 was a doctor in the reserve hospital in Vienna-Boerhavegasse. He was barred from promotion for a long time, but eventually became a staff physician.

Immediately after the war, Karl Fellinger was the supporting director of the Medical University Clinic in Graz, but returned to Vienna in the fall of 1945 as head of the Medical Polyclinic and the cardiac ward. He also regained his teaching license. In 1946, he was appointed full university professor and head of the Second Medical University Clinic. He later became dean and one of the most internationally renowned doctors of the second half of the 20th century. The "Fellinger infusion" is named after him.