Christoph Brückner (medical doctor)

Christoph Brückner (born  December 25, 1929 in Zwickau ; † June 4, 2019 ) was a German occupational physician . From 1972 to 1992 he worked as a professor of industrial hygiene at the University of Jena and from 1980 to 1987 at the Humboldt University in Berlin at the Charité Institute for Occupational Medicine . In addition, he was a functionary of the LDPD block party and from 1967 to 1990 a member of the People's Chamber . From April to December 1990 he was the last President of the German Red Cross (DRK) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and from 1991 to 2003 Vice President of the all-German DRK. From 2004 he represented the DRK as honorary president.

Life

Christoph Brückner was born in Zwickau in 1929 and studied medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1949 to 1954 , where he also received his doctorate in 1954 . He then worked from 1955 to 1965 as a company doctor in the Zwickau coal mine , during which time he qualified as a specialist in occupational hygiene in 1959 . Until 1972 he worked as head of the health and safety inspection at the council of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district . In 1973 he received his habilitation at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , and a year earlier he was appointed full professor for industrial hygiene at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , where he worked until 1992. In addition, from 1980 to 1987 he held the chair for occupational medicine and head of the occupational hygiene department at the Berlin Charité.

Christoph Brückner also belonged to the GDR bloc party Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD), of which he was a member from 1945, from July 1967 to March 1990 as a member of the People's Chamber . In addition, he was the successor to Günter Wiedemann from November 1967 to 1989 chairman of the committee for health care of the people chamber and from 1976 district chairman of the LDPD in the district of Jena . On June 29, 1978 he became a member of the central board of the LDPD and in April 1982 a member of the political committee of the central board of the LDPD.

From April 1990 to December 1990, Christoph Brückner succeeded Gerhard Rehwald as the last President of the German Red Cross of the GDR . After the merger of the two German Red Cross societies to form the all-German DRK, he was elected one of its vice-presidents in 1991. He was confirmed in this office in 1997 and held it until 2003. From 2004 he was honorary president of the DRK. He was a member of the honorary council of AMCHA Germany , the central organization for psychosocial help for survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants in Israel .

Awards in the GDR

• 1975 Honorary title of Honored Doctor of the People
• 1985 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
• 1989 Gold Star of Friendship of Nations

Publications

• The company sister. Three editions. Dresden 1968, 1969, 1971 (as co-author).
• The nurse in company health protection. Two editions. Berlin 1982, 1987 (as editor).
• Health, safety and fire protection in the health sector. Six editions. Dresden 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977 and Berlin 1983, 1987 (as co-author).
• Hygiene. Three editions. Berlin 1984, 1986, 1989 (as co-author).

literature

• Rainer Schlösser, Volkmar Schön (ed.): Tutti fratelli - tutte sorelle: Together for the Red Cross - In memory of Christoph Brückner . Academic Publishing Association Munich, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-95477-113-4 .
• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Brückner, Christoph . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 , p. 137.
• The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 5th electoral period. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1967, p. 211.
• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 35.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary: DRK mourns its honorary president Professor Christoph Brückner. German Red Cross, June 4, 2019, accessed June 5, 2019 . 
2. ↑ 6th meeting of the LDPD central executive committee in Berlin . In: The morning of June 30, 1978.