Kurt Geiger (General)
Kurt Geiger (born December 7, 1920 in Brno ; † August 21, 1993 ) was a German military medic and major general of the National People's Army (NVA) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Life
The son of a postal worker studied medicine in Prague and Leipzig. During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served as a junior doctor until 1945.
After the war ended in 1945 he joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDP) and worked in the health service of the city of Merseburg . He was promoted to Dr. med. received his doctorate and joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the same year . On November 1, 1948, he joined the German People's Police . He was initially head of the health department of the Halle border brigade until 1949. From 1949 to 1952 he was head of the VP hospital in Leipzig. In 1952 he went to Pasewalk as the head doctor of the KVP Territorial Administration North . From 1954 to 1956 he was head of the field school of the KVP in Leipzig.
When the NVA was founded in 1956, he became head of the NVA's central hospital in Bad Saarow . From 1957 to 1958 he studied at a military academy in the Soviet Union. Subsequently, from 1958 to 1966 he was head of the medical administration and the medical service in the Ministry for National Defense of the GDR. He was made major general on October 1, 1959 and discharged from military service on March 31, 1966.
He then worked at the Institute for Biology and Medicine of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin and then as a city councilor and head of the health and social affairs department in Halle (Saale) . From August 1971 to September 1978 he worked as a district doctor and member of the Halle District Council . At the same time he was a member of the Halle District Assembly from 1971 to 1981 . In February 1979 he was appointed head of the newly established Department of Military Medicine at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU).
Awards
- 1952 Honorary title of Honored Doctor of the People
- 1964 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1975 in silver
Fonts
- Basics of military medicine . German military publisher, Berlin 1964.
literature
- 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. 82.
- Klaus Froh & Rüdiger Wenzke, (ed.): The generals and admirals of the NVA: A biographical manual. 5th, through. Edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-438-9 , 98.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Zeit from June 20, 1969
- ^ Freedom of February 7, 1979
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Violinist, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German military medic and major general (NVA) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1993 |