Martha Kyrle

Martha Kyrle (born Schärf ; born April 17, 1917 in Vienna ; † July 15, 2017 there ) was an Austrian doctor and philanthropist .

Life

Martha Kyrle's mother was Hilda Schärf , who had suffered from severe cardiovascular disease since 1944 and died in 1956. Her father was the lawyer and later Federal President Adolf Schärf (1890-1965).

After graduating from high school , Martha attended the Reinhardtseminar in autumn 1935 , but also studied English . In 1937 she was engaged at the Schauspielhaus Zurich ; from mid-1940 she studied medicine and became a specialist in dermatology . The daughter of Federal President Adolf Schärf acted as First Lady of Austria during the tenure of her widowed father from 1957 to 1965 and was host to Jacqueline Kennedy and Nina Khrushchova on the occasion of the American-Soviet summit in Vienna in 1961 . She also took care of state visits and a. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, the kings of Sweden and Denmark and the Thai king Bhumibol with his wife Sirikit .

After studying medicine , she married the doctor and university professor Paul Kyrle . Her older son Johannes Kyrle was ambassador and, as Secretary General for Foreign Affairs (2002-2013), the highest-ranking official in the Austrian Foreign Ministry. The younger son Paul Alexander Kyrle is a university professor for internal medicine at the Vienna General Hospital .

As early as January 1 , 1939, she was involved in Vienna as a carer for children in socially vulnerable families. In 1962 she was significantly involved in the founding of UNICEF in Austria and was president of this organization until 2009; even after that, she continued to be closely associated with UNICEF as honorary president. As the long-time president and protector of the Austrian UNICEF committee, she was particularly committed to sick and disabled children. In 1993 she received the Bruno Kreisky Prize for services to human rights .

literature

Carl-M. Piswanger: ... and became First Lady: Dr. Martha Kyrle. In: Contributions to the past and present of the IX. Bezirks , 37th vol., H. 144 (June 1996), pp. 14-16, ISSN 0017-9809 .
Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 2: I-O. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 1877–1878.

Web links

Florian Mader: 90th birthday of Dr. Kyrle. SPÖ Alsergrund, archived from the original on June 29, 2007 ; Retrieved July 19, 2017 .
Annual report UNICEF Austria 2007 . UNICEF Austria , June 2, 2009, p. 2 (pdf, 1.25 MB)
Can the sister's very long life make up for the brother's short one? die-frau.at, April 26, 2012

Individual evidence

↑ UNICEF Austria mourns the loss of its long-time President and Honorary President Dr. Martha Kyrle . UNICEF Austria , July 19, 2017, accessed on July 19, 2017.
↑ Austria's first First Lady Martha Kyrle died. kurier.at , July 19, 2017, accessed on July 19, 2017.
↑ Top diplomat Johannes Kyrle has died. derstandard.at , January 14, 2018, accessed on January 15, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Kyrle, Martha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schärf, Martha (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian physician and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 17, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	15th July 2017
Place of death	Vienna

[1] UNICEF Austria mourns the loss of its long-time President and Honorary President Dr. Martha Kyrle . UNICEF Austria , July 19, 2017, accessed on July 19, 2017.

[2] Austria's first First Lady Martha Kyrle died. kurier.at , July 19, 2017, accessed on July 19, 2017.

[3] Top diplomat Johannes Kyrle has died. derstandard.at , January 14, 2018, accessed on January 15, 2018.