Alfred Beyer

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Alfred Erich Gerhard Beyer (born December 24, 1885 in Woldenberg ; † October 9, 1961 in East Berlin ) was a German physician, civil servant and social democratic member of parliament in Prussia and later a leading health care official in the early GDR as well as a university professor .

Life

Beyer came from an educated middle class family, the father was a judge and senior civil servant. After graduating from high school in Stade , Beyer studied medicine at the universities of Jena , Göttingen and Kiel from 1906 to 1911 . After the state examination in 1911, he was awarded a Dr. med. doctorate and approved in 1912 . From 1911 to 1912 Beyer was an assistant doctor at the children's clinic and at the Hygiene Institute at the University of Kiel . He then worked until 1919 as an institution doctor in the Provincial Sanatorium and Nursing Institution in Schwetz and Neustadtin West Prussia interrupted from continuous military service as a military doctor during the First World War . He completed his specialist training as a specialist in neurology in 1916.

From 1919 to 1933 Beyer was in the civil service as a consultant (insane affairs, industrial hygiene, venereal care, forensic medical service, accident and old age insurance, human resources, pharmaceuticals), first in the Prussian Ministry of Welfare and later in the medical department of the Ministry of the Interior; initially as an unskilled worker, then from 1920 as a councilor, from 1922 as a senior government councilor and finally from 1925 as a ministerial councilor . He organized the medical trade inspectorate introduced in Prussia in 1921. In addition, until 1933 he was editor of the medical magazine Medical World and employee of the magazine for hygiene . From 1927 to 1933 he was a lecturer at the Lessing University in Berlin.

Politically, Beyer had been a member of the SPD since 1919 and joined the Association of Socialist Doctors . For the SPD he was a member of the Prussian state assembly and the state parliament from 1919 to 1924 . He was a member of the State Health Council, for which he sat from 1920 in the "Committee for Racial Hygiene and Population".

In the course of the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he was dismissed from civil service in February 1933 and was banned from working until 1939. During the Second World War he took over a practice for stomach and intestinal diseases.

After the end of National Socialist rule , in 1945 he briefly ran his own practice for gastrointestinal diseases in Berlin-Tempelhof . He joined the SED in 1946 and made another career in the health sector in the Soviet occupation zone and the early GDR. From 1945 to 1949 Beyer was most recently Vice President of the German Central Administration for Healthcare . In 1948/49 he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR. In addition, from 1947 until his retirement in 1956, he was Professor of Social Hygiene at Humboldt University . From 1948 to 1949 he was dean of the medical faculty and from 1949 to 1951 he was vice rector of the university. He was also director of the Institute for Social Hygiene at HU Berlin from 1949 to 1956 and medical director of the Charité from 1955 to 1958 . He temporarily chaired the Scientific Council of the Ministry of Health . Beyer was also the editor of the German health system and author of numerous scientific and popular scientific medical publications.

He was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1956 .

Publications

  • Human economy ; 1922
  • The medical trade inspection ; 1926
  • Contributions to lead analysis using dithizone ; 1938
  • The victory of thought ; 1920 German book community
  • The technique of thinking ; approx. 1921 German book community

Journal articles (selection)

In: The Socialist Doctor .

  • Industrial hygiene. Volume 1 (1925), Issue 2–3 (July), pp. 16–18 digitized

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ October 9th is the anniversary of the death in Wer was who in the GDR? , 5th edition. Volume 1, Berlin 2010 stated, whereas Udo Schagen, Sabine Schleiermacher: 100 years of history of social hygiene, social medicine and public health in Germany. A documentation of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP) , CD-Rom, Berlin 2005 and Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt: The way to the "Law on the Unification of Health Care" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and Municipal health system in Germany , Part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, p. 382 is given as the day of death of October 16
personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beyer, Alfred Erich Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, university professor, civil servant and politician, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Woldenberg
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1961
Place of death East Berlin