Ludwig Bieder: correspondence and papers

Ludwig Bieder: correspondence and papers 

Ludwig (Lewis) Bieder, the depositor's father, born in Vienna in 1910, he graduated with distinction from the University of Vienna in 1935 and was appointed resident then university tutor at Vienna's Rosenhugel Hospital. In 1938, after the annexation of Austria, the hospital was taken over by the SS. All Jewish personnel were dismissed and patients forcibly discharged. Dr Bieder fled to Switzerland, where he worked in a psychiatric hospital for 15 months. In 1939 his application for an entry permit into New Zealand was accepted and he sailed for Wellington during the week that war was declared. See 1618/9 for a more detailed biography. 

Ludwig Bieder: correspondence and papers