Gottfried Schreiber (veterinarian)
Gottfried Alfred Alexander Schreiber (born July 11, 1918 in Liegnitz ; † April 13, 2003 in Fritzlar ) was a veterinarian and active professional politician . From 1959 to 1963 he was Managing Director of the Association of Practicing Veterinarians in Kurhessen, from 1963 to 1975 Chairman of the State Association of Hesse in the Federal Association of Practicing Veterinarians (BpT) and then from 1975 to 1987 President of the State Veterinary Chamber of Hesse (LTK Hessen).
Life
Schreiber was the son of a mill and electricity company owner in Penzig near Görlitz . After attending the local elementary school and subsequent high school in Wahlstatt (Silesia) from 1929 to 1938, labor service 1938, military service 1938–45 and American prisoner of war in 1945, he studied veterinary medicine in Gießen from 1946 and received his doctorate there in 1951. From 1952 he practiced in Fritzlar, North Hesse . As the first practicing veterinarian in Germany, he performed a caesarean section on cattle in the farm stables with the assistance of a colleague . From 1978 to 1985 he was also director of the slaughterhouse in Bad Wildungen .
As a professional politician, he was decisively involved in adapting the veterinary professional code to modern circumstances (as early as 1967 he achieved that veterinarians received travel allowance and that meat inspection staff received paid leave), expanding professional training opportunities, modernizing the training system for veterinary assistants , dismantling competition restrictions (e.g. with the enforcement of the free choice of insemination veterinarians) and to secure the veterinary pension and widow care. The establishment of the first animal welfare committee of the LTK Hessen also fell during his tenure as chamber president .
On September 29, 1986 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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| SURNAME | Clerk, Gottfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schreiber, Gottfried Alfred Alexander (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German veterinarian, President of the State Veterinary Association of Hesse |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liegnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 2003 |
| Place of death | Fritzlar |