act. Since the world-view, the rightness of which he recognized even then and out of which he committed his act, is now the ruling national ideology, he considers it a hardship if he still has to remain in a disadvantaged position because of an act which sprang from his world-view." Because the Senior Public Prosecutor concluded that Nelböck's act was accompanied primarily by personal motives, Nelböck was only released on probation on October 11, 1938. From 1938 on, Nelböck worked in the geological department of the wartime economic oil authority. When the period of probation ended in 1943, he worked as a technical employee in the Main Measurement Office. In 1951, Nelböck sued Victor Kraft, a member of the Vienna Circle, who had called Nelböck a "paranoid psychopath" in his (Kraft's) book Der Wiener Kreis. Kraft agreed to an out-of-court settlement. Works Die Bedeutung der Logik im Empirismus und Positivismus. Dissertation, Vienna 1930. References External links Internationale Mathematische Nachrichten, Vienna 2006 Karl-Peter Schwarz: 'Das Ende des Wiener Kreises: "So Hund, jetzt hast du es"' (Die Presse 2 Nov 1997) Christian Köllerer: 'Die Errungenschaften der Postmoderne als Theorie: Eine philosophische Kritik' 1903 births 1954 deaths Austrian people convicted of murder People convicted of murder by Austria People with schizoid personality disorder University of Vienna alumni 1936 murders in Austria