Friedrich Dworschak (27 February 1890 – 7 September 1974) was an Austrian numismatist and art historian, and museum director during the Nazi era.
[1] After passing the state examination at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in the same year, he worked as a volunteer at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he was hired in 1915.
Supported by the weapons expert Leopold Ruprecht, who had already been active in the NSDAP since 1932, Dworschak administered the central depot for confiscated collections set up in the Neue Burg in the fall of 1938 "as a depository for objects from Viennese collections confiscated from Jews by the Nazi regime from mid-March 1938 onwards for subsequent dispersal in various museums.
They included artworks belonging to the collectors Emmy Aldor, Bernhard Altmann, Alois Bauer, Leo Fürst, David Goldmann, Rudolf Gutmann, Felix Haas, Felix Kornfeld, Moritz Kuffner, Wally Kulka, Otto Pick, N. Pilzer, Valentin Viktor Rosenfeld, Alphonse Rothschild, Louis Rothschild and Alfons Thorsch [de], as well as objects of unknown origin."
In addition to these functions, Dworschak became an expert for the acquisition office for cultural property of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in August 1941.