Josef Weninger

Josef Weninger ( born May 15, 1886 in Salzburg, † March 28 1959 in Vienna ) was an Austrian anthropologist and university professor.

Life

Josef Weninger, who had studied with Rudolf Pöch, led to the annexation of Austria by the Nazis as the Professor Anthropological Institute of the University of Vienna. In 1938 he had to give up his chair because his wife Margaret, also an anthropologist, was Jewish. Your mother should be deported in 1941 from Vienna, but was by the anthropologist and SS -Hauptsturmführer Univ. -Prof. Dr. Viktor Christian (1885-1963) protected. Weninger had previously been Christian conveyor, which is why this protected him now and obtained for Weninger, that the Ministry of Science entrusting him with the evaluation of the anthropological surveys from the POW camps.

After 1945 until his retirement in 1955 Weninger had again been head of the Anthropological Institute, and sat with his wife continued the classic tradition of morphology. In 1948 he was appointed professor of the philosophy department.

Weninger was real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, former president of the Anthropological Society, member of the German Society for Anthropology, Prehistoric Society and the Vienna until his sudden death of the Association of Folklore in Vienna Honorary President.