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 on the prestigious Opernring. 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
The Foundation’s spokesman is the chairman Alfons Heim
