Sabine Bergmann-Pohl

Sabine Bergmann -Pohl, nee Schulz ( born April 20, 1946 in Eisenach ), is a German politician ( CDU).

She was 1990 President of the People's Chamber, and - since the function of the State Council was transferred to the People's Chamber President - so that the last head of state of East Germany, 1990-1991 Federal Minister for Special Tasks and 1991-1998 Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health.

Work and private life

After graduation in 1964 Bergmann -Pohl was not initially admitted to the program and therefore completed a two year internship at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1966 she was allowed to begin a study of medicine, which she finished in 1972 as a graduate physician. Since 1979 she is a specialist in lung diseases. In 1980 she graduated as MD from 1980 to 1985 she medical director of Poli Division of Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis in Berlin -Friedrichshain. From 1985 to 1990, she was Medical Director at the District Office for lung diseases and tuberculosis in East Berlin.

Since 1990, Bergmann -Pohl is the patron of the General Confederation of Disabled People in Germany e V. ( Abid eV ) and was from 2003 to 2012 president of the Berlin Red Cross. When a new Berlin DRC 's Bureau in the fall of 2012, she has not a candidate at his own request. In recognition of their special services for the Berlin Red Cross Bergmann -Pohl was appointed Honorary President of the DRC National Association Berlin Red Cross. Since 2003 she is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation and since 2007 she has been vice president there. Since 2012 she is one of the oldest city of Berlin.

Sabine Bergmann -Pohl is married and has two children.

Political activity

In 1981, she joined the CDU, a block of the political parties. In 1987 she became a member of the District Board Berlin.

In the first free parliamentary elections on 18 March 1990, she moved to the CDU deputies to the People's Chamber, and was elected on April 5 for their President. Due to the adopted on the same day the new Article 75a of the Constitution of the GDR they also exercised the powers of the previous Council of State, and was, therefore, to October 2, 1990, the last head of state of East Germany.

With German reunification on 3 October 1990, she was a member of the German Bundestag, which they then belonged until 2002. She was last (14th legislature, 1998-2002) over the national list Berlin drafted into the German Bundestag.

On 3 October 1990 she was appointed Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the run of Chancellor Helmut Kohl Federal Government. After the first all-German Bundestag elections 1990, she lost her ministerial office, and was appointed on 18 January 1991 on the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Health. After the 1998 election she resigned from the federal government on 26 October 1998.

Offices

  • Member of the People's Chamber of the GDR (1990 ) President of the People's Chamber (1990 )
  • Federal Minister for Special Affairs (1990-1991)
  • Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health (1991-1998)

Writings

  • Frequency - history of clinical findings chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases in childhood, their relationship to lung function and determination of reference values ​​for ventilation and distribution parameters on Pneumotestgerät. Results of a school survey. Dissertation Academy of Postgraduate Medical Education of the GDR Berlin, 1981, Berlin- Karow 1976, 1981, 88 pp., 17 graph. representations
  • Goodbye without tears. Looking back on the year of the unit. Recorded by Dietrich von Thadden. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin and Frankfurt / Main 1991, ISBN 3-550-07802-1
  • Issuer with Paul B. Wink: Panel Discussion 1953-1989 Germany on the way to unity and freedom on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the popular uprising in the GDR on 17 June 2003 in the Academy of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin. Konrad -Adenauer -Stiftung, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-937731-00-8
  • Issuer with Wilhelm Staudacher: " The cry for freedom." The Hungarian uprising in 1956. Konrad -Adenauer -Stiftung, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-939826-46-0
State Council of East Germany Specialty (medicine) German Red Cross East German general election, 1990 Third Kohl cabinet Deutsches Historisches Museum Johannes Dieckmann Horst Sindermann Waldemar Kraft Robert Tillmanns Heinrich Krone Horst Ehmke Rudolf Seiters Bodo Hombach Peter Altmaier Friedrich Zimmermann Hans A. Engelhard Gerhard Stoltenberg Helmut Haussmann Ignaz Kiechle Dorothee Wilms Rupert Scholz Ursula Lehr Walter Wallmann Christian Schwarz-Schilling Gerda Hasselfeldt Heinz Riesenhuber Integrated Authority File
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