General Polyclinic Vienna

The General Polyclinic (Allgemeine Poliklinik) was a hospital in Vienna where many well-known Austrian physicians worked.

The polyclinic was founded in 1872 by twelve young university assistants, making it the first of its kind in Europe.

Originally located on Wipplingerstrasse in the First District, these were outpatient clinics designed primarily to improve care for poor patients and to facilitate teaching and research work.

The costs of the operation were initially borne by the founders themselves, but four years later an association was established to raise funds.

Reporting on March 28, 1938, shortly after Austria's Anschluss with Nazi Germany, Time magazine wrote of the devastating impact of the anti-semitic persecution of the many Jewish doctors on the polyclinic and other medical establishments in Vienna, listing the suicides.

On the site, which apart from the building in Mariannengasse included other adjacent areas as far as Lazarettgasse, the Vienna Competence Center was built as a location for research institutions and companies from the fields of medicine, biomedicine, medical technology and complementary service areas.

The building of the former polyclinic in Vienna-Alsergrund, Mariannengasse 10
Inscription above the entrance
The leading figures of the Vienna Polyclinic, 1902, from left, August Leopold von Reuss, Auxiliary Bishop Godfried Marschall, Princess Pauline von Metternich, Alois Monti and Julius Mauthner
The department heads of the General Polyclinic in Vienna around 1885, from left, seated: Alois Monti, Johann Schnitzler, Robert Ultzmann, Jakob Hock and Samuel Siegfried Karl von Basch;
From left, standing: August Leopold von Reuss, Emil Stoffella, Wilhelm Winternitz, Leopold Oser, Anton von Frisch, Hans von Hebra, Ludwig Fürth, Moriz Benedikt, Viktor Urbantschitsch, Max Herz, Anton Wölfler and Ludwig Bandl.