Ingrid Leodolter

Ingrid Leodolter (born August 14, 1919 in Vienna ; † November 17, 1986 there ) was an Austrian doctor and politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

Ingrid Zechner was the daughter of the teacher and school councilor and later politician Leopold Zechner . In 1937 she graduated from the Hietzingen Girls' High School with distinction and began studying medicine, which she completed with a doctorate in 1943. In 1946, like her father, she joined the re-established SPÖ. Since 1938 she was married to the economist Josef Leodolter, who later worked, among other things, as a financial advisor for the Viennese hospitals. A son from this marriage was the future gynecologist Sepp Leodolter .

Leodolter began her medical career in 1944 under Reinhold Boller at the Sophienspital in Vienna. In 1950 she became a specialist and in 1951 senior physician in the department of internal medicine. In 1958 she became a primary school graduate and from 1961 to 1971 she was the medical director of the Sophienspital.

In 1971 the Federal Government Kreisky II introduced the new Federal Ministry for Health and Environmental Protection, of which Leodolter became the first Federal Minister on February 2, 1971. She introduced the mother-child passport , which with regular, mandatory examinations brought about a significant reduction in child mortality . She also introduced preventive health checks.

In 1979 she was accused of wasting taxpayers' money by the opposition and votes from her own party; Due to these allegations, she resigned from her ministerial office on October 8, 1979. She returned to the Sophienspital and worked there again as chief physician until 1985.

In 2015 in Hietzing (13th district) in the Speising district, the Leodolterpromenade was named after her, which connects the former Lainzer Spital with the local geriatric center.

The Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus nursing home opened in September 2015 in the 15th district of Vienna was named Ingrid Leodolter Haus .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ingrid-Leodolter-Haus on the website of the Vienna Hospital Association

literature

• Karl Heinz Tragl: Chronicle of the Vienna hospitals

Web links

• Ingrid Leodolter. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
• Radio reports with Ingrid Leodolter in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library
• Ingrid Leodolter in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Ingrid Leodolter on the website of the Austrian Parliament