Helene Lecher
Helene Lecher née von Rosthorn (born September 8, 1865 in Vienna , † October 2, 1929 in Vienna) was an Austrian philanthropist .
Helene Lecher, a daughter of Josef von Rosthorn , did a great job in nursing during the First World War , where she particularly benefited from her knowledge of nutrition through her earlier experiences on the mother's estate. So she headed the diet kitchen of the war hospital of the American Red Cross in Vienna- Meidling . She set up another such diet kitchen in the war barracks hospital in Grinzing , which was headed by the physiologist Arnold Durig . This war hospital had 6,000 beds. Many of the patients suffered from dysentery .
After the war hospital was closed in 1919, she ran two barracks with private funds as a day care center for children at risk of health.
She was married to the physicist Ernst Lecher .
Appreciation
She embodied the woman of society as a servant . Jakob Wassermann may have immortalized them and their children's home in his novel Faber, or the lost years , which appeared in 1924.
literature
- Fichna: Lecher, Helene; born from Rosthorn. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 70 f. (Direct links on p. 70 , p. 71 ).
- Allan S. Janik and Hans Veigl : Wittgenstein in Vienna , pages 22, 34, 79, 83 ISBN 3-211-83077-4
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| SURNAME | Lecher, Helene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | von Rosthorn, Helene (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian philanthropist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 1929 |
| Place of death | Vienna |