Alois Stacher

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Alois Stacher (born February 16, 1925 in Vienna ; † July 20, 2013 there ) was an Austrian physician and politician ( SPÖ ).

education and profession

Stacher served in Italy during World War II , where he was seriously wounded in 1945 and could only be kept alive through several operations. This led to Stacher giving up his original professional goal of being an architect in order to become a doctor.

After his release from American captivity in 1947 studied Stacher medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1952 for Dr. med. univ. Stacher subsequently worked as a visiting doctor and after a year as a secondary doctor at the Vienna Hanusch Hospital , practicing in the departments for surgery and internal medicine. After his appointment as senior physician in 1955, he was recognized as a specialist in internal medicine in 1959.

In 1955 he was entrusted with setting up the hematological station at the Hanusch Hospital, and in 1968 he took over the management of the newly established Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Leukemia Research and Hematology . As a result, Stacher was able to achieve success in researching genetic, viral and environmental influences in the development of leukemia and in its treatment. Stacher also completed his habilitation in 1967 and was appointed associate professor in 1974. As a doctor, Stacher published several independently published works as well as around 300 essays and several collected works.

In April 1975 Stacher was elected President of the Austrian Committee for Social Work and from May 1976 was President of the Vienna Red Cross. In 1978 Stacher was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In 1988 he founded the Vienna International Academy for Holistic Medicine (Gamed), of which he was President until 2003. Most recently he was their honorary president . He was buried in an honorary grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

politics

On November 23, 1973, on the proposal of Mayor Leopold Gratz, Stacher was elected as the incumbent city councilor by the Vienna City Council and until 1989 belonged to a total of five city senates (see City Senates Gratz II to Zilk II ); until December 9, 1987 as City Councilor for Health and Social Affairs, from then on as City Councilor for Health and Hospitals.

Stacher expanded the social services (e.g. the city retirement homes) and had foreign nurses acquired for the Viennese hospitals. Stacher also had marriage advice and family planning offices set up, introduced a laundry care and visiting service for old and helpless people, and founded a hospital and nursing home commission in 1975. He also presented a target plan for health care and elderly care to the public. Furthermore, Stacher carried out the Viennese psychiatry reform, introduced improvements in the field of preventive medicine. In addition, Stacher was involved in the planning of the Social Medical Center East . On December 15, 1989, Stacher resigned from his position as a city councilor.

On the occasion of his death, it was remembered that during Stacher's tenure in office the AKH scandal that had already begun surrounding the new building of the General Hospital of the City of Vienna became virulent and that a care scandal about Lainz's angels of death occurred in the Lainz hospital and old people's home , which led to a much-noticed murder trial led. The news of the series of murders prompted Stacher to resign as a city councilor.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Long-standing City Councilor for Health Alois Stacher has died
  2. ↑ Alois Stacher's membership entry at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on August 10, 2015.
  3. ^ Vita of Alois Stacher on Vienna History Wiki (City of Vienna), accessed on March 4, 2020
  4. ^ Alois Stacher grave site , Vienna, Central Cemetery, Group 77, Group Extension A, Row 24, No. 37.
  5. ^ Ex-City Councilor for Health Alois Stacher died , in: Der Standard daily newspaper , Vienna, July 22, 2013, p. 8

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personal data
SURNAME Stacher, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and politician (SPÖ)
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 2013
Place of death Vienna