The future anatomist and social democratic healthcare politician Julius Tandler was born on 16 February 1869.
In the inter-war period, Tandler was head of the First Anatomical Institute of the University of Vienna. Beginning in 1920, anti-Semitic attacks regularly occurred there, and became more radical towards in 1933. The many riots, designed to intimidate Tandler, his colleagues, and his students, claimed numerous injuries and helped create an atmosphere of civil war at the University of Vienna. After the Austrofascists came to power in 1933/34, the terror by National Socialist students was fought more efficiently, but Tandler himself was also not wanted by the new rulers: In March 1934 he was arrested and forced into retirement for political reasons.
