Ivo Fischer (doctor)

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Ivo Frithjof Fischer (born December 17, 1927 in Bregenz ; † December 27, 2016 there ) was an Austrian gynecologist and obstetrician .

Life

Youth and education

Ivo Fischer came from a medical family. He was the son of the dermatologist Erich Fischer and the gynecologist Erna Sylvia Fischer. He attended the Belruptstrasse elementary school in Bregenz, then the Jesuit Stella Matutina in Feldkirch and, after the Jesuit college was closed, from 1934 the high school for boys in Bregenz. At the time of National Socialism he was in the Hitler Youth , was an air force helper in Friedrichshafen during the war and completed the Reich Labor Service . Then he became a radio operator and telephone operator in the Wehrmacht in Salzburg, and later in the mountain artillery. At the end of the war he was stationed at Lake Balaton and was sworn in again under General Dönitz after Hitler's death on May 1, 1945 .

Fischer studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Vienna . On February 7, 1953, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. Further training stations were the US universities in Pittsburgh , Yale and Harvard . In the United States, he worked with Carl Djerassi and Gregory Pincus when they developed the birth control pill . He also studied postgraduate philosophy, law, natural sciences and computer science in Innsbruck and English law in Pittsburgh.

He was married to the gynecologist Gertrude Fischer, née Weber.

Act

He worked as a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics and was primary at the Mehrerau sanatorium of the Wettingen-Mehrerau Territorial Abbey in Bregenz. He was also a court sworn and certified expert specialist in gynecology and obstetrics. He retired in 1993.

He was visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh . After the idea of dedicating a lecture hall in the Cathedral of Learning to his native Austria at the local university around 1950 , Fischer picked up the idea again and founded the Austrian American Cultural Society (AACS) at the university in November 1978 . For the 250,000 US dollars necessary for the construction of the baroque lecture hall, he arranged, among other things, a benefit concert with some members in the Carnegie Music Hall on the main campus for the “Austrian Nationality Room” in 1979.

Fischer held numerous honorary positions. In 1945 he was a founding member of the European Forum Alpbach . In 1946, then a student, he was one of the founders of the Bregenz Festival with his “Bregenz Festival Weeks” . He was medical advisor and in the post-war years he was Leopold Figl's private secretary . He was also a long-time director of the AHLB-Vorarlberg / Vorarlberger Cartellverband and a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons (ICS), Chicago . He was honorary consul for Italy in the Austrian administrative area of Vorarlberg . In 1976 he founded the short-lived student association KÖAV Vindemia Feldkirch in the ÖCV.

Ivo Fischer was involved in numerous social projects in the Holy Land , in particular for the schools in Gaza and the Austrian hospice in Jerusalem's old town. In 1977 he was accepted into the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Maximilien de Fürstenberg and invested in the Papal Lay Order on September 25, 1977 by Jakob Weinbacher , Grand Prior in Austria, in Graz Cathedral . Most recently he was a Grand Officer of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. In 1978 he founded the Bregenz Commandery of the Papal Order of Knights together with Ernst Kolb (Head Commander) and the Abbot of the Territorial Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau Kassian Lauterer OCist (Prior). From 1978 to 1994 Fischer was Chief Commander in Bregenz.

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b OB Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ivo Frithjof Fischer passed away , OESSH , accessed on January 5, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e In Memoriam MR Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ivo Frithjof Fischer. In: doctor in the country. Notifications from the Medical Association for Vorarlberg. 2017, H. 2 (February), p. 30 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Fischer, Ivo. In: Who's Who in Austria. 1983, p. 178 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ Martin Begle: “I'm the uncle of the birth control pill , so to speak” , Vorarlberg Online , May 1, 2016.
  5. ↑ Bernadette Bayrhammer: The doctor who saved Franz Fischler's life. In: The press . August 30, 2015. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  6. ^ Matthias Daum: Vorarlberg. Remaining in the canton. Die Zeit , July 25, 2013.
  7. ↑ Fischer, Ivo. In: Who's Who in Austria. 1996, p. 162 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ^ A b History of the Society: People who created the Austrian Nationality Room. Austrian American Cultural Society, June 9, 1996.
  9. ^ History. In: Guide to the Austrian Nationality Room Committee Collection, 1977–2002. University of Pittsburgh Library System.
  10. ↑ Timeline. In: A History of the Austrian American Cultural Society of Pittsburgh. Austrian American Cultural Society.
  11. ↑ Univ.Prof. Dr. Ivo Frithjof Fischer ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , European Forum Alpbach , accessed on January 5, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.club-alpbach-vorarlberg.at
  12. ↑ We mourn Ivo Fischer , European Forum Alpbach , accessed on January 5, 2017
  13. ↑ Dislocations in the run-up to the opening of the festival , Vorarlberger Nachrichten , July 14, 2016, accessed on November 27, 2017
  14. ↑ Markus Barney: The Sehnsuchts Festival. In: museum magazin 14/2016, vorarlberg museum , p. 4.
  15. ↑ Event: Figl Matinée. Event information for the exhibition on Figl in the Museum Niederösterreich , artmagazine, 2015.
  16. ^ Ivo Fischer: Memories of Leopold Figl. On the occasion of the exhibition "Figl von Österreich", April 19 to October 26, 2015, Museum Niederösterreich, April 22, 2015.
  17. ^ Austrian official calendar for 1998 , p. 111
  18. ↑ Excerpt from the OESSH Austria membership directory , 2012 edition
  19. ↑ List of all bearers of the honorary badge , response to the Federal Chancellor's question on April 23, 2012, accessed on November 29, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Ivo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Ivo Frithjof (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2016
Place of death Bregenz