Ludwig Harms (physician)

Ludwig Harms (born August 23, 1900 in Hermannsburg ; † September 1984 in Leipzig ) was a German doctor and CDU official in the GDR. He was a member of the People's Chamber .

Life

Harms was born the son of a pastor. After primary school in Hermannsburg, he attended a grammar school in Celle . After passing his Abitur, he studied medicine at the universities in Tübingen , Rostock and Kiel from 1921 to 1926. In 1927 he passed his state exam and was awarded the dissertation The carcinoma of the papilla of Vater and his radical surgery Dr. med is doing his doctorate. In the following four years Harms worked as an assistant doctor in hospitals in Kiel, Hanover , Hildesheim and, most recently, Merseburg . In 1931 he took over a country doctor's practice in Langenleuba-Niederhain in Thuringia , which he ran until 1953, with an interruption during military service.

After the end of the war he joined the CDU in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945, co-founded the CDU district association Altenburg and headed the CDU local branch of his place of residence until 1953. From 1948 to 1951 Harms was chairman of the CDU district association Altenburg, from 1950 to his Dissolution in 1952, he was also a member of the CDU state committee for Thuringia. His party nominated him as a candidate for the Volkskammer elections on October 15, 1950, after which he was a member of the GDR parliament in the first electoral period from 1950-1954. Harms was a job-related member of the Health Care Committee. In 1953 Harms moved to the Saxon city of Leipzig, where he took over the management of the outpatient clinic of the Meyer'schen Häuser as chief physician . He also acted as a control center doctor in the south-west of Leipzig. After Harms did not run for the People's Chamber again in 1954 because of his workload, he was declared to be the successor candidate in 1955. At the end of 1957, he took up this role in the People's Chamber as the successor to the late CDU MP Robert Mittag. 1958 Harms was elected again for one term as CDU representative in the People's Chamber.

In 1963, according to official reports, a heart condition forced him to give up his political offices, but he continued to work as chief physician until 1972.

Honors

• 1961 Medical Council
• 1964 Medical Council
• 1976 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze

literature

• Federal Ministry for all German issues (ed.): SBZ biography. A biographical reference book on the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany , Bonn, Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1961, p. 292

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Neue Zeit from August 22, 1965 p. 4
2. ↑ Neue Zeit of August 23, 1980 p. 3
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland from March 12, 1976 p. 5