Hermann Spencker

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Hermann Spencker (born January 11, 1897 in Schwerin ; † April 1, 1975 ) was a German doctor and member of the People's Chamber for the LDPD .

The son of a senior director from Schwerin attended the high school there. Spencker did military service in the First World War and joined the German Democratic Party in 1919 . From 1919 to 1923 he studied medicine at the Universities of Rostock and Freiburg im Breisgau and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. From 1923 to 1927 he worked as an assistant doctor in Freiburg im Breisgau and from 1927 to 1929 as a secondary doctor in Hamburg-Geesthacht. In 1929 he went to Quedlinburg as an internist and head of the diagnostic institute of the general local health insurance fund. In October 1932 he moved to the Quedlinburg district hospital as chief physician in the internal department and was its medical director from October 1937 to 1967. During the Second World War he did military service as a doctor.

After the war he became a member of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) in 1945 , the LDPD and the Kulturbund (KB) in 1946 and the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) in 1947 . From 1954 to 1967 he was a member of the LDPD parliamentary group in the People's Chamber . From 1954 to 1957 he was deputy and from January 1957 to 1967 chairman of the People's Chamber Committee for Health Care. He retired at the age of 70.

In 1955 he became a Merited Doctor of the People and in 1958 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver and in 1967 the Order of Labor Banner .

literature

  • Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 3rd electoral period, Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 406f.
  • Who is who in the SBZ? , 1964, p. 332.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 20, 1963, p. 4
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland, February 28, 1967, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Spencker, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, politician (LDPD), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1975