Emilie Lederer (verh. Kulshreshtha)
| Born: |
07-06-1912 |
| Faculty: |
Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Emilie LEDERER (married MENSCHER, remarried KULSHRESHTHA), born on July 6th, 1912 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Teutschen-Rust/Bohemia [Podbořanský Rohozec/Czech Republic, Citizenship: Czechoslovakia), daughter of Karl Otto Lederer (salesman), lived in Vienna's 2nd district, Schrottgiessergasse 1/Zirkusgasse 20, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1936 at the Medical School in the 5th and last year of her studies ('Absolutorium' was certified on September 9th, 1937) and since than she was in preparation of the final examinations.
After the so called "Anschluss" in March 1938 she was no more allowed to take the examinations and to get an academic degree and was forced to leave the university.
Emilie Lederer married around 1937 or 1938 and became Emilie Menscher. During her medical studies she learned to know Dr. Kedar Nath Kulshreshtha, a medical post-graduate doctor from British-India (Baroda [Vadodara]) who took courses at the Medical Faculty, organized by the Faculty in cooperation with the "American Medical Association in Vienna" (AMA). He came to Vienna about 1936/37 shortly after receiving his medical degree FRCS in Edinburgh in Scotland/Great Britain. He not only became a simple member of the AMA but Vice-president and chairman of the Executive Committee of the AMA around 1938. He was fascinated by psychoanalysis and was interested to get in contact with Sigmund Freud. He worked in the university clinics at the central hospital of Vienna (AKH) were the two of them met.
Kedra Nash Kulshreshtha helped Emilie Menscher, nee Lederer, that later became his wife to flee from Vienna after the "Anschluss" and to emigrate to Baroda [Vadodara]/British-India. He was personal physician of the Maharajah of Baroda and Kedra and Emmy Kulshreshtha together instituted their own mini National Health Care in the hospital they together established and ran. Emmy Kulshreshtha practised medicine for the poorest and brought the highest standards of medical care to them until her dying day, although she could never finish her medical studies.
She had three children: Dr. Maya Lederer (lawyer, USA, England, Sweden), Gita Kedar Voivodas Brenner (born 1942, psychologist, USA), and Arvind Kulshreshtha.
Lit.: information from her daughter Maya Lederer, Stockholm and Oxford 2016; from Prof. Franz X. Lackner, Vienna 2016; Dr. Margit Franz, Graz 2017; Archive of the University of Vienna/Medical School: Nationale from fall term 1931/32 to 1936/37; Josephinum, Collections and History of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna; Franz X. Lackner, Zur Geschichte der Wiener "American Medical Association/Society".
Herbert Posch
