Helmut Ries

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Helmut Ries (born May 4, 1920 in Hamburg ; † November 27, 2009 in Langballig ) was a doctor, author and co-founder of the Glücksburg Historical Society .

Life

Helmut Ries studied at the Military Medical Academy in Berlin and worked as a military doctor during the Second World War . After the end of the war he completed his specialist training and was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. After that he went to England to get further education. There he obtained a special qualification which enabled him to run a pharmacy in addition to his work as a doctor. After his stay in England, Ries went to Ireland for ten years . There he ran an emergency room at the teaching hospital of the Royal College of Surgeons . He also became a medical officer of the German embassy in Ireland until he returned to Germany in 1970. In 1981 he opened a pediatric practice in Glücksburg , which continued as a group practice from 1989, before retiring in 1990. The practice still exists today.

Ries, very interested in German history, founded the Glücksburg Historical Society together with Friedrich Ferdinand zu Schleswig-Holstein in 1987 , which he headed until 1997. After 1997 he took on representative tasks for the association. In addition, Ries worked as an author. For example, he wrote a biography about Crown Prince Wilhelm , which, however, received a very poor rating from Holger Afflerbach . According to Ries, Wilhelm would have become a “good emperor” had history gone different.

Helmut Ries lived on the Flensburg Fjord in a district of Langballig until his death .

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  1. ↑ cf. Source: Flensburger Nachrichten of December 5, 2009, p. 31
personal data
SURNAME Ries, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, author and co-founder of the Glücksburg Historical Society
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2009
Place of death Long-crowned