Ingrid Leodolter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian politician and physician
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Ingrid Leodolter
- Ingrid Maria Margarete Leodolter (14 August 1919 – 17 November 1986) was a physician and Austria's first Minister of Public Health and Environmental Protection. Ingrid Zechner was born on 14 August 1919 in Vienna.
- She attended the Medical School of the University of Vienna and earned her medical degree in 1943.
- She completed training in internal medicine in 1951.
- She was the medical director of the Sophia Hospital in Vienna from 1961 to 1971.
- Following the establishment of the Ministry of Public Health and Environmental Protection, Leodolter was selected as the first minister in 1972.
- She served in that role until 1979.
- During her tenure, the mother-child-pass examination programme was passed in 1974, resulting in a reduction in infant mortality from 23.5 per thousand in 1974 to 7.4 per thousand in 1992.She married Josef Leodolter in 1938.
- She died on 17 November 1986 in Vienna.
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