Dr. Karl Nowotny
Dr. Karl Nowotny was born in Vienna in 1895 and studied medicine at the University of Vienna. When he completed his studies he joined the University Clinc for Psychiatry and Neurology and ran the psychiatric-neurological station.

One of his teachers was the Nobel Prize winner, Professor Wagner-Jauregg, from the school of Alfred Adler, the founder of Individual Psychology.

Dr. Nowotny became very well-known in the field of Individual Psychology. He was co-founder of the “International Association for Individual Psychology” and for years was on the Board of Governors of the “Austrian Society for Psychic Hygiene”.

After the end of World War II he took over the management of the Vienna City Mental Home, “Maria Theresia Schloessl” and ran it until he retired. Among his patients were many famous people from the world of art and politics.

He also lectured psychiatry and neurology at the Vienna University and over the years published a great many scientific papers, particularly on Individual Psychology.

In 1960 he was awarded the Golden Badge of Honour for outstanding services to the Austrian Republic.

In April 1965 Dr. Nowotny left the material world, but several months after his passing he made mediumistic contact with it once again.

Grete Schröder
Grete Schroeder, according to an Austrian television programme in 1982, was one of the most important mediums in the German-speaking world.
She was born in 1904 in Graz, and after her studies she worked as a tax consultant, first in Germany, then in Vienna. After World War II she built up a very big practice in her offices near the prestigious Rathausplatz. But as her initial workload had overtaxed her, she came to Dr. Nowotny as a patient at the beginning of the nineteen fifties. A warm and lasting friendship developed between them, and Dr. Nowotny became her client.

Grete Schroeder had never had any contact with spiritual teachings. But two days before Nowotny passed she had a dream. She saw a figure who spoke only three words: “Nowotny is dying”.
After his death she was led to a contact with him through a medium, learned automatic writing and wrote the six volumes he dictated to her. Their working contact continued for twentythree years.
In this time, with Nowotny’s help and based on the teachings in his books, she helped countless people who had been diagnosed as schizophrenic or “only” had psychic problems. For many of them this meant they no longer had to be confined to a psychiatric institution, for she had taught them how to free themselves from their obsessions. In the light of her work the word schizophrenia in the sense of a division of consciousness is no longer tenable, and the concept “incurable” is negated when a distinction is made between insanity as an organic sickness of the brain and mental disturbance as an exterior influence.

Grete Schroeder passed in December 1987.

Alfons Heim
Alfons Heim was from 1989 till his return to the spiritual dimension on September 16th. of 2008 director of the board of the Dr. Karl Nowotny foundation e.V. and the sole contact person.

He was born on February 13. in 1947 in Bad Reichenhall. In his own saying he was up to his 31st. year mainly interested in his progressing career as a banker. 1978 being a member of the alpine rescue team he got into an avalanche and experienced his soul exiting his body which impressed him immensely He read Moody's book about experiences of clinical dead people who returned to life and began to think that life might have a deeper meaning. Two years later he survived safely a spectacular helicopter crash.

Stimulated by a friend Alfons Heim became interested in penduluming and discovered that by means of his pendulum he was able to remove his four months old daughters tooth ache. Several successes also with ill persons became known. Soon he could oppressive a pendulum since an invisible force guided his hands.

A friend of his, a medical doctor, indicated to him the books of Nowotny. Alfons Heim tried henceforth successfully medial writing, sometimes for many hours a day and also at night. He became suspicious if his writing partner from the other world was really Karl Nowotny. So he got into touch with Grete Schröder who proved that he had been cheated. In this way a fruitful common work with Grete Schröder started. Three years later Nowotny explained in his 6th. volume of his "Medial writing" in chapter "Different ways of unjust treatment with spiritisme" how he freed Alfons Heim of his mental disturbance. In 1985 both of them founded the association Dr. Karl Nowotny Foundation e.V.

His public speeches about the advices of Nowotny and seminars for medical and psychological therapists as well as alternative practitioner lead to numerous transfers of people suffering of psychical disturbances. He was able to help those people by talking about Nowotny's dogma which was followed by developing a better understanding and strengthening of the own personality and often resulted in a relieve from the symptom. Also quite often his ability as a magnetopath was asked.

He was forced to end his activity because of cancer. His fight fought eagerly and full of hope against his illness, actively supported by his wife Barbara, shadowed his last ten years. After the decease of Alfons Heim the members elected Heinz Bolliger as deputy managing director and Cordula Schacht as second in command.