Bernhard Opitz

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Bernhard Opitz (* 1936 in Meiningen ) is a German doctor, synodal and politician.

Life

job

After completing his studies, Opitz obtained a doctorate in medicine in Jena . During his state examination he was arrested by the security authorities of the German Democratic Republic, and a court convicted him in the 1960s of a “political crime”. The judgment was overturned on June 30, 1992 after German reunification. After completing the state examination, he trained as a specialist in internal medicine in Bad Salzungen . From 1969 to 1978 he was a senior physician at the Institute for Hygiene of the Medical Academy Erfurt (MAE). During this time, in addition to his hospital hygiene work, he was also engaged in experimental studies on microclimatology. With a thermo psychological work to Opitz habilitated in 1978 ( Promotion B ) and received the teaching certificate in human medicine. From 1978 he was chief physician in the internal department and chief physician at the Evangelical Hospital Wittenberg (Paul-Gerhard-Stift) . On September 15, 1990, he was appointed honorary professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg , and has since carried out theoretical work in the field of biothermodynamics .

Church and Politics

From 1966 to 1978 Opitz was synodal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia and from 1984 to 1990 chairman of the conference of the regional committee of the Evangelical Church Congress in the GDR . In 1989 he took part in the civil rights movement in the GDR and was elected deputy chairman of the newly founded German Forum Party from January 1990 , which joined the liberal electoral alliance of the Bund Free Democrats (BFD) in February 1990 . The alliance received 5.3 percent of the vote in the first free Volkskammer election in 1990 and thus achieved 21 seats. Opitz also received a mandate and was a member of the People's Chamber from April to October 1990 in its last legislative period in the Liberal parliamentary group. During this time he was also the chairman of the special committee of the People's Chamber to investigate the events in the Saxon mental hospital in Waldheim . An investigative commission set up for this purpose under the leadership of Ehrig Lange and Wilfried Rasch (FU Berlin) established sufficient suspicions for the mistreatment of patients and the abuse of the institution by the disbanded State Security Service . In 2005 Opitz ran for the party Free Voters for Wittenberg (FWW) and was elected to the city council. In the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt in 2006 , Opitz ran together with the chairman of the FWU, Stefan Kretschmar, in the Federation of Citizens' Initiatives and Free Voters of Saxony-Anhalt (BBW). In the local elections on June 7, 2009 he was re-elected to the city council of Wittenberg. The FWU formed together with the FDP and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen the parliamentary group of Free Voters / FDP / Bündnis90 / DIE GRÜNEN.