Gerheid Widrich

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Gerheid Widrich (born September 9, 1937 in Vienna ; † August 11, 2019 in Salzburg ) was a doctor in Salzburg, a politician of the ÖVP and the first woman in the Salzburg state government .

Career

Gerheid Widrich born Kupelwieser came from the Kupelwieser family, which was important for Austrian industry and culture in the 19th century. Due to the war, she experienced a troubled elementary school time in Vienna, Hohenems and Serfaus in Tyrol . After moving to the family castle on Mönchsberg in 1947, she attended the girls' high school in Salzburg, where she graduated from high school in 1955. She also studied violin at the Mozarteum University . After graduating from high school, she devoted herself exclusively to music for a year. In 1956 she began studying medicine at the University of Graz and received her doctorate in 1964. med. univ. From the 5th semester onwards, she financed her studies mainly by herself with rigorous courses in medical chemistry. In 1963 she married the journalist Hans Widrich . Children: 1964: Theresa (gynecologist), 1967: Virgil (film director), 1968: Mechtild (art historian).

Working life

From November 1, 1964, she went through the cycle at the Salzburg Regional Hospital and on April 11, 1968, she received her diploma as a general practitioner. On April 1, 1970, she opened a practice in the old town of Salzburg, and in January 1978 she also became a school doctor . When she joined the state government, she passed these tasks on to colleagues. Widrich gave numerous lectures on the topics of raising children, problems with students and partners, and health care.

Voluntary work

For years Gerheid Widrich was in the school community committee and in the school forum of the Academic Gymnasium Salzburg , also member of the board of the Salzburg relief organization, 1996 delegate of the Salzburg Diocesan Forum.

Medical association functions

  • 1973 co-founding of the non-profit medical association AVOS (working group for preventive medicine), which she led for years on a voluntary basis and in which she worked primarily on melanoma prevention and stroke follow-up care.
  • 1974 co-founding of the “Free Doctors” parliamentary group and election to the medical association
  • 1986 elected as the first woman to the board of the medical association

Political functions

In 1984, Governor Wilfried Haslauer invited the doctor, who had been independent until then, to run for the Salzburg State Parliament. She joined the economic association and the women's movement of the ÖVP and, as a member of parliament, was primarily concerned with social, family and health issues. Governor Hans Katschthaler appointed her in 1989 as the first woman to join the Salzburg provincial government. Until 1994 she was in charge of the family, women (newly established), kindergarten, toddler care, health and nature conservation departments. She took key initiatives in the areas of state family support, more kindergarten places, day care law, strengthening preventive medicine and health promotion. Fundamental amendment of the Nature Conservation Act through the introduction of contractual nature conservation with funding guidelines. Finally she prepared the legal basis for the outsourcing of the state hospitals and pushed for the construction of the West Surgery and the expansion of the St. Veit State Hospital, which were implemented after her departure.

Awards

  • 1992 Medical Councilor
  • 1994 Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Salzburg
  • 1994 Gold Medal of the Red Cross
  • 1994 Gold Medal of Honor of the Blue Cross
  • 1994 Gold Medal of Merit from the Salzburg Mountain and Nature Guard
  • 1994 Gold Medal of Honor from the Salzburg Fisheries Association
  • 1995 Gold Medal of Honor from the ÖVP Salzburg
  • 1995 Julius Raab Medal from the Austrian Economic Association
  • 2002 Golden Badge of Honor from the Austrian Aid Organization
  • 2004 Federal Medal of Honor
  • 2007 Gold Medal of St. Rupert and Virgil of the Archdiocese of Salzburg
  • 2007 honorary member of the working group for preventive medicine
  • 2013 Placement of the plaque "Dr. Gerheid Widrich, Regional Health Councilor from 1989 to 1994, initiated the expansion of the St. Veit im Pongau regional hospitals" by the economic director Hubert Hettegger
  • 2014 Golden Doctoral Diploma (med. Univ.) From the Medical University of Graz

Web links

literature

  • Margret Friedrich, "The art of living and survival of the Kupelwieser". In: Hannes Steckl (ed.), Bürgerliche Familien, Böhlau Wien-Köln-Weimar 2000
  • Who is Who in Austria 1993
  • Salzburger Landeszeitung No. 11/1989
  • Salzburg Window No. 13/1993
  • Herbert Dachs, "The moderate reformer. Gerheid Widrich Regional Councilor in Salzburg 1989-1994". Salzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-200-03739-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerheid Widrich passed away on www.pressreader.com, accessed on August 13, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Widrich, Gerheid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 11th August 2019
Place of death Salzburg