Dr.-Fritz-Rihl-Way

Friedrich (Fritz) Rihl was born on December 19, 1878, in Villach. After completing his medical studies in Vienna, he began practicing in St. Gilgen in 1909. Already in 1934, he became a member of the Heimwehr, and subsequently joined the Vaterländischen Front as well as the Frontmiliz. His former housekeeper and presumably lover filed a complaint in 1943; Rihl is said to have heard of “enemy broadcasters” between 1939 and 1943. He was sentenced in August 1943 to three years of imprisonment in the Schwäbisch-Hall prison camp, which he did not survive. Rihl died on November 25, 1943. Only four days after his death did the University of Vienna posthumously award him his academic title, which he was finally granted again in 1955.