Dr. Rudolf Winkelbauer war in Wien geboren und später ein amerikanischer Spitals-und Militärarzt mit zuletzt eigener Ordination . Gestorben 2014.
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Dr. Rudolf Winkelbauer, retired obstetrician- gynecologist from Brunswick, died peacefully on Oct. 20, 2014, at the age of 88, at Cadigan Lodge (The Highlands) in Topsham.
He was born on April 9, 1926, in Vienna, Austria the youngest of four children. His father, Adolf Winkelbauer, was professor of surgery at the University of Vienna. His mother, Edina Countess Clam-Gallas, was of noble lineage and had forestry and agricultural estates in the Sudetenland, now the northern Czech Republic. It was during the summers spent on his mother's land that Rudy developed his deep and enduring love of nature and wildlife. Even as a young boy he was a gifted sportsman, and often stayed up through the night, sitting in a high stand, waiting for the arrival of game in the moonlight.
Rudy had considerable music talent. He started his musical training on the violin, and did an audition for the Vienna Philharmonic as a young boy. Later he taught himself how to play the piano and cello, and enjoyed playing in a string quartet with friends. Music was woven firmly into his life, and even towards the end he played the piano every evening.
Despite the chaos of the post war period, Rudy managed to finish four years of medical school in Austria, and then immigrated to the U.S. and finished his post- graduate training in 1952 at the Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas.
While in Dallas, he set his eye on a beautiful red head, Marion Fahey of Kansas City, Mo., and married her in 1954. After completing his specialty training in 1956 and the birth of the couple's first daughter (Lori,) he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in a number of large OB-GYN military facilities at the height of the post-war baby boom. This service included a two-year posting in Stuttgart, Germany where their second daughter (Chrissi) was born in 1959. Following completion of his military tour, the family moved to Brunswick, where he established his practice in obstetrics and gynecology, and spent the next 30 years ushering thousands of babies into the world before retiring in 1990. Rudy rarely went anywhere in Brunswick without bumping into former patients, or the 'babies'
