Helga Mucke-Wittbrodt

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Helga Mucke-Wittbrodt (born Nydahl ; born September 11, 1910 in Altona ; † May 4, 1999 in Berlin ) was a German doctor. For almost forty years she was the head of the GDR government hospital . In addition, she represented the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD) for forty years as a member of the People's Chamber .

Life

Helga Mucke was born as the daughter of Jens Nydahl, who later became the district mayor of Berlin-Tempelhof . After she had left a Berlin upper secondary school with an Abitur, she began studying medicine in Berlin in 1929. She graduated in 1936 with the state examination and the doctorate to Dr. med. from. While studying, Mucke-Wittbrodt became a member of the SPD in 1930 after joining the SAJ in 1928 . From 1936 until the end of the war, she rose from trainee doctor to senior and specialist physician at the Am Urban hospital in Berlin . At the end of the 1930s she got in touch with the resistance against National Socialism through her marriage to her second husband Hans Wittbrodt .

After the end of the war, Mucke-Wittbrodt was appointed chief physician and director of the municipal hospital in Berlin-Tempelhof. In 1945 she became a member of the KPD , and in 1946 with the forced unification of the SPD and KPD a member of the SED . From 1946 to 1948 she also worked as a Berlin city councilor . In 1948 Mucke-Wittbrodt was dismissed in Berlin-Tempelhof. She then moved to the Soviet sector of Berlin and initially got a job as chief physician at the Charité . In 1949 she was appointed chief doctor and medical director of the government hospital of the GDR. She shaped this institution until 1988.

Mucke-Wittbrodt was also politically active in the GDR. Between 1950 and 1952 she was a member of the SED regional leadership in Greater Berlin. She represented the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany for almost forty years from 1950 to 1990 as a member of the People's Chamber and was thus one of its longest serving members. In 1990 Mucke-Wittbrodt remained a member of the SED, which was renamed PDS .

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SURNAME Mucke-Wittbrodt, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nydahl, Helga (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and politician (DFD), MdV, medical director of the GDR government hospital
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1999
Place of death Berlin