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With this issue the Wiener klinische Wochenschrift is completing its 130th year. The Journal has been continuously published since 1888 with the exception of the year 1945. Its presence in different historical epochs has been delineated in review articles by Otto Kraupp [1] and Helmut Wyklicky [2] on the occasion of 100 years of the Wiener klinische Wochenschrift and in 1998 by Wilfred Druml, who reflected on the fate of the Wiener klinische Wochenschrift in the years 1938–1945 and the 50th anniversary of its reappearance in 1946 [3]. In this commemoration year, the Gedenkjahr 2018, Austria is remembering the end of the First World War, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Austrian Republic, the Anschluss of 1938 and the consequences of the Nazi regime. The Wiener klinische Wochenschrift is contributing to this with two supplements concerning medical ethics after the Nuremberg Code [4] and the aftermath on medicine and society [5]. In the very first issue of the Wiener klinische Wochenschrift in 1888, the editorial board announced the program expected to be realized with this journal (see Fig. 1). The basic aims of the original program still correspond well to our current goals—here are two sentences that have been selected and rendered in free translation: