Louis Wienholt

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Dr
Louis Wienholt
Secretary of the Department of Social Security
In office
9 January 1973 – 26 July 1973
Personal details
Born Louis John Wienholt
1918
Died 1973
Nationality Australia Australian
Spouse(s) Hilda Hamilton (m. 1946; d. 1949)[1][2]
Occupation Public servant

Dr Louis John Wienholt (1918–1973) was a senior Australian public servant, including as Secretary of the Department of Social Security in 1973.

Life and career

Wienholt was born in 1918.[3] He was a Queenslander who went into practice with his wife, Hilda Wienholt in Red Hill, Queensland. Hilda died suddenly on 14 September 1944; the couple had a child aged just 11 months at the time of Hilda's death.[4] The doctors who performed Hilda's autopsy were unable to determine the cause of her death.[5][6]

Wienholt began his Australian Public Service career in 1950.[7] He was promoted to Senior Medical Officer, grade 2, third division in 1957.[8]

Between 1968 and 1973 he was a Deputy Director-General at the Department of Health.[3] In January 1973 he was appointed Director-General of the Department of Social Security.[3] During his time as head of social security, Wienholt organized for his desk clerks to attend two-week courses in the slums of Melbourne and Sydney to "sensitise" them to the problems of departmental clients.[9]

Wienholt retired due to ill health early into his term at the Department of Social Security,[10] he had suffered a heart attack in April 1973.[11] He died later that year.[3]

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Government offices
Preceded by Secretary of the Department of Social Security
1973
Succeeded by
Laurie Daniels

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