Ferdinand Schmidt (politician, 1918)

Ferdinand Schmidt (born February 9, 1918 in Kassel ; † February 3, 1980 in Munich ) was a German doctor and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Ferdinand Schmidt was born on February 9, 1918 in Kassel. After visiting the elementary school and high school in 1937 at the secondary school he studied medicine at the Universities of Cologne , Bonn and Dusseldorf on which he with the state examination and the promotion of Dr. med. finished. He completed his assistantship, did Reich labor service and took part in the Second World War as a soldier , most recently as senior physician in the reserve. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in 1948.

Schmidt worked from 1952 to 1958 as a social doctor and during this time worked as the head of a rheumatism counseling center and as a pension expert. From 1959 to 1961 he was the deputy chief physician (specialist in lung diseases) in a lung sanatorium in Davos ( Switzerland ). In 1962 he switched to the service of the Krefeld health department as a doctor , passed the public medical exam in 1963 and was later promoted to medical director. Ferdinand Schmidt died in Munich on February 3, 1980.

politics

Schmidt joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1956 and was a city councilor in Daun and a member of the district council of the Daun district in 1956/57 . Since 1964 he was deputy subdistrict chairman and district chairman of the SPD in Krefeld.

Schmidt was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament from 1966 until his resignation on October 21, 1969 . In the 1969 Bundestag election he was elected to the German Bundestag , to which he was a member until 1972. In parliament he represented a direct mandate from the Bundestag constituency of Krefeld .

Honors

• 1972: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

Ferdinand Schmidt at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia