Hans-Georg Wolters

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Hans-Georg Wolters (seated) signing a government agreement on health with the GDR in 1974

Hans-Georg Wolters (born August 23, 1934 in Danzig ; † April 30, 2017 ) was a German doctor and politician ( SPD ).

Wolters studied medicine at the Humboldt University in East Berlin from 1952 to 1957 . After he went to the western part of the city, he received his doctorate from the Free University in 1960 and completed a study visit to the USA. In West Berlin Wolters worked as a physician and taught at the university. In 1970 he became medical director of the Steglitz Clinic and received the title of professor.

In 1971 the governing mayor, Klaus Schütz, appointed Wolters, who had joined the SPD in 1965, as Senator for Health and Environmental Protection . However, in this office, he remained only a short time, as federal health minister Katharina Focke him in May 1973 as a successor to Ludwig von Manger-Koenig for civil servants Secretary of Bonn summoned. He kept this office under her successor Antje Huber until he left the office at his own request in 1980.

Wolters then headed the clinical research department at Hoechst . In 1988 he was dismissed because of "disagreements in business policy".

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  1. ↑ Herbert Stelz: Pharmaceutical industry: deadly pick-me-ups . In: The time . No. 11/1992 ( online ).
  2. ↑ PROFESSIONAL: Hans-Georg Wolters . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1988 ( online - June 13, 1988 ).
personal data
SURNAME Wolters, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and former politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2017