Konstantin Spies

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Konstantin Spies (born May 14, 1922 in Dresden ; † 2005 ) was a German physician and virologist . From 1968 to 1982 he was Deputy Minister for Health in the GDR and from 1982 to 1990 Rector of the Academy for Medical Training in the GDR .

Life

Spies, son of the composer Leo Spies , attended the Grunewald-Gymnasium in Berlin , passed his military diploma and began studying medicine. On September 1, 1940, he joined the NSDAP . He was drafted into the RAD , then served as a sergeant in a grenadier regiment of the Wehrmacht and was a prisoner of war .

After his return in 1946 he became a member of the SED and the FDJ . He continued his medical studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 1950 and was awarded a Dr. med is doing his doctorate. From 1951 he worked in the State Secretariat for Higher and Technical Schools in the GDR. 1952 began his specialist training in paediatrics at the Charité . From 1957 to 1961 he was senior assistant at the Virology Department at the Charité in Berlin. In 1961 he took over the chair of virology and in 1963 head of the Institute for General Medical Microbiology, Virology and Epidemiology at the Charité.

From 1968 to 1982 he held the post of Deputy Minister for Health in the GDR and was a. a. Responsible for pharmacy and medical technology, planning, finance, main security inspection and innovation. From 1978 to 1981 he was a member of the Executive Council of the World Health Organization (WHO) and in 1981/82 he was a member of the Research Advisory Board of the WHO European Region. From 1979 Spies was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . He was an extraordinary member of the Research Council of the GDR , a member of the Presidium of URANIA and the Council for Medical Science of the GDR.

From October 1982 to 1990 he worked as rector of the Academy for Medical Training in the GDR (successor to Gerhard Prüschke). Spies died at the age of 82 and was buried in the Schifferkirche cemetery in Ahrenshoop .

Awards

literature

  • Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . Elisabeth Reichmann Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-923137-00-1 , p. 373.
  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 306.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 875.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nicolaus Sombart: Jugend in Berlin, 1933–1943 ( Memento of December 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 19, 2016).
  2. ^ Biography in brief . In: National-Zeitung of December 11, 1984.
  3. ^ Judith Hahn, Ulrike Gaida, Marion Hulverscheidt: 125 years of hygiene institutes at Berlin universities. A commemorative publication. P. 44f. (Accessed February 19, 2016).
  4. ↑ Gravestones: Schifferkirche Ahrenshoop cemetery. (Accessed February 19, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Spies, Constantine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and virologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 2005