Gerhard Hasse

Gerhard Friedrich Hasse (born April 7, 1925 in Kirchmöser , Jerichow II district , Province of Saxony ; † September 9, 2001 in Eisenach , Thuringia ) was a German surgeon and civil rights activist in the GDR .

Live and act

Gerhard Hasse was born in Kirchmöser ( Province of Saxony ) in 1925 as the son of a pastor . He attended the humanistic high school in Halle (Saale) . He then began in 1943 to study medicine at the Military Medical Academy in Berlin , which he continued at the German Charles University in Prague . In 1942 he had registered as a war volunteer and alternated between his studies as a field doctor . After the war, Hasse continued his studies in Kiel , where he passed the state examination in 1948 and received his doctorate in the same year. After compulsory assistance and work in pathology and internal medicine in various central German cities, Hasse completed his surgical training from 1953 to 1957 at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena under Kuntzen and anesthesiological specialist training at Hutschenreuter . From 1957 to 1960 Hasse worked at the St. Vincenz Hospital in Heiligenstadt as a senior physician in the surgical-gynecological department. From 1960 to 1992 he was chief physician at the Deaconess Hospital in Eisenach .

Hasse is portrayed as a passionate surgeon. He was particularly involved in medical and nursing training. He headed the nursing school in Eisenach. As one of the first doctors in the GDR, Hasse was able to introduce gastroscopy with a western gastroscope in 1974.

According to his own information, Hasse had become a devout Christian during his time as a soldier and was active in the Evangelical Church . He became a board member of the Working Group of Christian Doctors in the GDR and was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Congress of Christian Doctors (ICCP) based in London from 1980 to 1992 . For years, Hasse was also a synodal of the Thuringian state synod and the federal synod .

In October 1989, Hasse co-founded the Democratic Awakening (DA) in Eisenach and became its chairman in December. He worked as an " after-work politician " at the round table , in the citizens' committee and in the medical initiative group of the Eisenach district . From December 4 to 8, 1989, Hasse played a leading role in the dissolution of the MfS district office . After the DA dissolved itself, of which he was still honorary chairman, Hasse co-founded the local political association Citizens for Eisenach , for which he was a member of the city council from 1990 to 2001. He was the founding president of the Rotary Club Eisenach. Hasse was also involved as a co-founder of the senior citizens' council, was senior representative of the city of Eisenach of the Thuringian regional church, member of the board of the Evangelical Senior Citizens' Union in Germany and member of the federal seniors' representation. He also sang in the Eisenach Bach Choir .

Hasse stubbornly pushed for the urgently needed reconstruction of the medical memorial in Eisenach, which was created in 1926 for those who died in the First World War and which stands in front of the deaconess house on Karlsplatz . The memorial was given back to the public with an extended dedication on the occasion of the 100th German Medical Association in Eisenach in 1997, financed by donations. Hasse became honorary president of the Doctors' Day, which he helped to open.

Hasse married his wife Ursula in 1952. The marriage had four children.

Honors

• Medical Council (GDR) 1978
• Honorary chairman of the 100th German Medical Association in Eisenach 1997
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (April 18, 1996), “for special social merits”, awarded at the Wartburg by Federal Minister Norbert Blüm
• Thuringian Rose of the Thuringian Ministry of Social Affairs for merit in honorary office
• Honorary member of the Christian Doctors Working Group of the Diakonisches Werk in the GDR
• Crown cross in gold of the Diakonisches Werk
• Dr.-Gerhard-Hasse-Strasse in Eisenach after the "doctor and civil rights activist 1989/90"

literature

• Federal Cross of Merit for Dr. med. G. Hasse, Eisenach . Ärzteblatt Thüringen 7 (1996), p. 352
• Johannes-Martin Kasper: Obituary: MR Dr. med. Gerhard-Friedrich Hasse . Ärzteblatt Thüringen 11 (2001), p. 661
• Bernd Jeschonnek: Gerhard F. Hasse and the Peaceful Revolution in Eisenach . Lecture at the Rotary Club Eisenach, weekly report 19th week, 10 November 2009
• Gerhard Hasse: The Deaconess Hospital in Eisenach. Main features of its development in terms of medical progress . In: Reinhold Brunner (ed.): Eisenach year book . tape 1992 . Hitzeroth, Marburg 1992, ISBN 3-89398-106-3 , pp. 54-61 .