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I n late November 1920, one of the few pre-war chaired Jewish professors of Vienna's University Medical School was appointed to head the municipality's newly created public health and welfare office. Dr. Julius Tandler was a professor of anatomy, a founding member of the Austrian Society for Population Politics, and the creator of a scientific journal dedicated to research into improving the human constitution. He had served on various health committees in the fledgling Austrian Republic before ascending to his new title as amtsführenden Stadtrat für Wohlfahrtswesen und soziale Verwaltung der Stadt Wien. Tandler's unofficial title was no less impressive: within a few years, he was popularly known as "the medical pope of Social Democracy." 1 As head of interwar Vienna's Welfare Office, Tandler shaped municipal health and welfare policy into a particular form of social medicine designed to strengthen and replenish the city's population. To do so, he stressed public sexual hygiene and private responsibility as crucial to the city's collective health.World War I dramatically altered political and material conditions in Vienna. At the end of the war, Vienna stood as the capital of a tru

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Published

2022

Language

EN