Erich Pohl (politician)

Erich Pohl (born May 31, 1917 in Vienna ; † January 21, 2002 in Buchholz in the Nordheide ) was a German politician (CDU). From 1967 to 1986 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Pohl attended school and university in Vienna. He studied medicine and received his license to practice medicine in March 1940. From May 1940 until the end of 1945 he was deployed as a soldier, mainly as a troop doctor in a tank division. After the end of the war he worked as an assistant doctor and senior physician in a clinic until 1956. He then opened a practice in 1956, where he practiced as an internist. Pohl was chairman of the Harburg-Land medical association and a member of the district board of the medical association in Lüneburg. After he had been councilor of the city of Buchholz since 1952, he became a member of the district council of the Harburg district in 1956. On June 6, 1967, he became a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament in its sixth electoral term, to which he still belonged until June 20, 1986, the end of the tenth electoral term. From September 14, 1970 to June 20, 1974 he was Chairman of the Committee on Social and Health Services.

Pohl was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 294.