George Salmond described him in a memorial tribute as, 'one of the most significant public health figures in New Zealand in the last half century'.
[2] Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary in 1917, Geiringer escaped Nazi Germany in 1938, going first to Belgium and later the United Kingdom, attending medical school in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
[7] He was instrumental in the IPPNW's campaign in seeking an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice questioning the legality of nuclear weapons.
[9] Geiringer was accused of raping a young female patient during a gynecological exam in 1976,[10] the case was thrown out by the court.
[11] In 2014, conservative politician Deborah Coddington wrote that she recalls she was required to undergo a gynaecological inspection by Geiringer to be prescribed the contraceptive pill, which she said made her 'ashamed'.