Georg Sitzlack

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Georg Sitzlack (born November 17, 1923 in Berlin ) was President of the State Office for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection at the Council of Ministers of the GDR .

Life

Georg Sitzlack attended elementary and high school. During the Second World War he did military service in the Wehrmacht . He studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1954 at the Humboldt University in Berlin with the thesis on the mathematical documents for the haptic apparent movements . In 1966 he completed his habilitation at the Academy for Medical Training in the GDR with a paper on the examination of the influence of high-energy radiation on the sensory organs as a special method of radiation medical diagnostics .

With effect from August 1, 1962, the State Center for Radiation Protection was established at the Council of Ministers and Georg Sitzlack was confirmed as its head. The State Office for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (SAAS), of which he became President, emerged from this institution in August 1973 by a resolution of the GDR Council of Ministers. He represented the GDR at meetings of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Organization in Vienna and on the Board of Governors. Most recently, he was Deputy Chairman of the Board of Governors from 1988 to 1989.

He became known to a broader public in the GDR in 1986 after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster , when he regularly drew the SAAS reports published in the daily press and gave interviews. On February 20, 1990, he was recalled as State Secretary and President of the State Office on the basis of a doctor's recommendation by the Modrow government . Then Sitzlack went into retirement.

He is the author of several papers on radiation protection in the GDR. In the early 1970s he was appointed professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1984 he received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden .

In 1973 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver, 1982 in gold, in 1983 the title of Labor Hero and in 1988 the bar of honor for the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

He was buried in the Karlshorster and Neue Friedrichsfelder Friedhof in Berlin-Karlshorst .

literature

  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 319.
  • 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 , p. 867 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Office for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Technology - BArch DC 20 / I / 4/591 (accessed on July 11, 2017).
  2. ^ IAEA Board of Governors 1988-89 . In: IAEA Bulletin . No. 4 , 1988, pp. 27 .
  3. ↑ Sebastian Stude: Chernobyl and the Stasi . In: Germany Archive . April 21, 2016 ( online [accessed July 6, 2017]).
  4. ^ Minutes of the 15th meeting of the Council of Ministers on February 22, 1990 - BArch DC 20/17410.
  5. ↑ Honorary doctoral students of the TH / TU Dresden. Seat varnish, Georg. TU Dresden, University Archives, accessed on July 5, 2017 (alphabetical order).
  6. ^ Biographical Handbook of the Soviet Zone / GDR, Volume 2, De Gruyter, Berlin 1996, pp. 867–868.
  7. ↑ Highest awards for the GDR national holiday . In: New Germany . October 8, 1983, p. 4 .
  8. ↑ High government awards . In: New Germany . October 6, 1988, p. 2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Seat varnish, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German State Secretary at the Council of Ministers of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin