Friedrich Ring

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Friedrich Ring (born October 23, 1915 in Neunkirchen (Saar) ; † May 1, 1964 in Greifswald ) was a German military doctor and politician as well as a party functionary of the GDR block party NDPD . He was chief of the medical service of the naval forces of the National People's Army (NVA) of the GDR .

Life

Ring, the son of a teacher, attended elementary school from 1922 to 1926 and the state high school in Cologne-Mülheim from 1926 to 1935 . He joined the Hitler Youth in April 1932 . From 1935 to 1937 he did his military service , most recently as a non-commissioned officer in the medical service. From 1936 to 1942 he studied medicine at the universities of Bonn , Breslau and Jena . Ring became a member of the NSDAP in 1937 . In 1939 he was a medical sergeant in the Münster hospital and in 1941/42 in a student company in Jena. In 1942, he was (as Fritz ring) at the University of Jena with a font About the physiological utility of dietary protein in humans: studies on oats, peas and wheat to Dr. med. PhD . Until October 1942 he was an assistant doctor in the reserve in the Sangerhausen hospital.

He did military service as a battalion doctor, regimental doctor and senior physician at main dressing stations and field hospitals. At the end of the war in May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets as a major in Romania . He became a teacher at the Antifa school in Ryazan , one of his students there was Hans Modrow .

After being released from captivity in July 1949, Ring went to the Soviet occupation zone . He became a member of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD) and was head of department on its main board from August 1949 to July 1952. From 1950 to 1951 he was a member of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament . From 1951 to 1953 he completed a distance learning course at the German Administrative Academy in Forst Zinna . From 1952 to 1954 he was deputy chairman of the Potsdam district council .

From October 15, 1952 to 1956, he was head of the Healing Department in the Medical Administration of the Barracked People's Police and the Medical Administration of the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR . When the NVA was founded on March 1, 1956, he became head of the NVA's medical administration. From March 1, 1957 to February 28, 1962 he was chief of the medical service of the People's Navy with the rank of sea ​​captain . After a brief activity as Scientific Director of the Academy for Medical Training of the GDR in Berlin and the departure of Colonel Karlheinz Kelch , Captain zur See Ring was reactivated and appointed to the Military Medical Section at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald on February 1, 1964 . He became director of the Institute for Organization and Tactics of Medical Service (OTMD) and head of the "Department of the History of Military Medicine". From September 1, 1962, he was also the editor-in-chief of the magazine for military medicine.

Ring published treatises on military medicine and also emerged as a writer.

Ring died of a heart attack at the age of 48 .

Awards

Publications

  • On the history of military medicine in Germany . German military publisher, Berlin 1962.
  • Medical officer Dr. Lauterbach . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1962 (8th edition 1974; Polish translation published by Wydawnictwo poznańskie, Posen 1965).
  • Prisoner of War Dr. Lauterbach . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1967 (4th edition 1976).

literature

  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Part II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 272.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , pp. 719f.
  • Torsten Diedrich , Rüdiger Wenzke : The camouflaged army. History of the barracked people's police of the GDR 1952 to 1956 . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86153-242-5 , p. 913.
  • Sylvia Kiesel; Erhard Kiesel: Differentiation process of hygiene in the period from 1945 to 1990 at the University of Greifswald with special consideration of social hygiene , dissertation to obtain the Dr. med., University of Greifswald 2003, two editors (!) Online, PDF, 18.4 MB . In it: on Friedrich Ring pp. 73–74, 75–78 with picture, 84, 100, with Annex 23 on p. LV: Documents on Friedrich Ring: Approval and PhD and with Annex 24 on p. LVI: Friedrich Ring - Publications .
  • Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR. 2nd Edition. Berlin historica, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939929-12-3 , p. 490.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sylvia Kiesel; Erhard Kiesel 2009, Appendix 23, S. LV
  2. ^ Peter Joachim Lapp: Ulbricht Helpers. Wehrmacht officers in the service of the GDR . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-7637-6209-4 , pp. 45 and 224.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Frölich (Ed.): "Bourgeois" parties in the Soviet Zone / GDR. On the history of the CDU, LDP (D), DBD and NDPD from 1945 to 1953 . Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-8046-8813-6 , p. 85.
  4. ↑ Günter Ewert: Ludwig Mecklinger in Greifswald (1957–1964), stage in a career as health minister, Pro BUSINESS Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86386-697-6 , p. 43f.
  5. ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from May 6, 1964, p. 7
  6. ^ Günter Ewert: Graduate and professor of the military medicine section at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald. An autobiographical report (1955–1976). Pro Business, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86386-605-1 , p. 50.
personal data
SURNAME Ring, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ring, Friedrich Wilhelm Franz; Ring, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military doctor, chief physician of the NVA naval forces, NDPD functionary
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Saar)
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1964
Place of death Greifswald