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Ingrid Maria Margarete Leodolter (14 August 1919 – 17 November 1986) was a physician and
Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
's first Minister of Public Health and Environmental Protection. Ingrid Zechner was born on 14 August 1919 in
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. She attended the Medical School of the
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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 Infant mortality is the death of an infant before the infant's first birthday. The occurrence of infant mortality in a population can be described by the infant mortality rate (IMR), which is the number of deaths of infants under one year of age ...
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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1919 births 1986 deaths Health ministers of Austria Physicians from Vienna University of Vienna alumni 20th-century Austrian physicians Women government ministers of Austria 20th-century Austrian women physicians {{Austria-med-bio-stub