Dieter Thomae

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Dieter Thomae (born June 23, 1940 in Dahlem near Bitburg ; † March 14, 2020 in Sinzig ) was a German health politician ( FDP ).

Thomae was a vocational school teacher and lived in Sinzig-Bad Bodendorf . He joined the FDP in 1972. From 1974 he was a member of the city ​​council of Ahrweiler and later the district council of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler . The doctorate headmaster ran from 1984 to January 1987, the commercial vocational school in Neuwied , the name under his leadership in 1985 Ludwig-Erhard-Schule received. After the federal elections in 1987 , he entered the Bundestag for the first time via the Rhineland-Palatinate state list , to which he was a member for five terms . From 1987 to 1991 he was chairman of the committee for labor and social affairs, from 1991 to 1998 chairman of the health committee of the German Bundestag. After the federal election in 1998 , he took over from Jürgen Möllemann as the health policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group . He did not run again for the 2005 Bundestag election .

Dieter Thomae is considered to be the initiator of the “Ahrweiler District Health Region” concept. According to his party friend Daniel Bahr , he was able to enforce liberal health policy accents in the interests of his party, especially during the time of the health reforms dominated by the Union and the SPD following the first health insurance cost containment law of 1977. He is the inventor of the statutory health insurance bonus scheme for dentures . Thomae was honorary chairman of the FDP district association Koblenz.

Dieter Thomae was Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Curanum AG, which he headed as Chairman until June 4, 2012.

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  1. a b Heike Korzilius: Dieter Thomae †: health policy with its own compass. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt vol. 117 (2020), issue 15, pp. A-787 / B-667.
  2. LES 1910-2010. Commemorative publication for the 100th anniversary of the Neuwied Business School (PDF; 6.5 MB). Neuwied 2010, p. 58 f.