80 years ago, on 25 August 1936, the renowned Viennese anatomist and Socialist health politician Julius Tandler died in exile in Moscow.
During the inter-war period, Tandler headed the 1st Anatomic Institute of the University of Vienna, where severe anti-Semitic riots regularly took place since 1920. The countless violent excesses that should intimidate Tandler, his staff and his students, resulted in dozens injured victims and contributed to a kind of a civil war atmosphere at the University of Vienna in the First Republic.
After the banning of all social democratic unions by the Austro-fascist regime Julius Tandler was arrested in March 1934 and forced to retire for political reasons.
