Ludwig Sievers

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Ludwig Sievers (born March 27, 1887 in Lübeck , † July 1, 1968 in Hanover ) was a German physician, medical professional politician and Freemason .

Career

Sievers was born as the son of pastor Ferdinand Sievers. He first studied law and later medicine in Jena, Erlangen, Breslau and Kiel. From 1920 to 1943 he was managing director of the Medical Association of Lower Saxony eV and the Medical Association for the Province of Hanover. The fact that he was able to stay in his position for so long without being a member of the NSDAP was due to his acquaintance with the Nazi medical officer Heinrich Grote , which went back to before 1933. After differences with Grote Sievers left his office in 1943, moved to the southern Harz region and worked as a doctor in a hospital.

After the occupation of Hanover by the British Army, Sievers returned to the city and contacted the representatives of the military government responsible for health care . As early as May 25, 1945 he was commissioned by the military government to reorganize the Lower Saxony Medical Association and, as President, to manage it. The medical association had to perform the tasks of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and was to be set up as a "Chamber of the Health Professions" to which all doctors, dentists and dentists had to belong and whose professional supervision the non-medical practitioners would be subject to. In 1948 Sievers was elected the first chairman of the working group of the state offices of the statutory health insurance associations (later the federal association of statutory health insurance physicians ), a position he held until 1957. Until 1958 he was president of the Lower Saxony Medical Association, from 1958 to 1962 its vice-president and 1962 its honorary president. It was of decisive importance for the development of statutory health insurance law in the 1950s.

Freemasons

During the Nazi era , Sievers became a member of the Hanoverian Freemason Lodge Scharnhorst of the German Faith , which was originally founded by the lodge brothers of the Lodge Zum Schwarzen Bär . After the Second World War , Sievers entered the Friedrich zum white horse box .

Foundation, endowment

On his 70th birthday, Sievers founded the foundation for the promotion of scientific research on the nature and importance of the liberal professions , which has been called the Ludwig Sievers Foundation since 1967 . It promotes writings in the field of freelance professions through printing grants for young authors and the publication of its own series, organizes symposia and awards the Ludwig Sievers Prize and the Ludwig Sievers Medal.

Honors

literature

  • Thomas Gerst : Medical professional organization and professional politics in Germany 1945–1955. Medicine, Society and History, Supplement 21; zugl. Diss. Univ. Stuttgart 1997, Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08056-9 , pp. 25-30, 123-127 and passim
  • Siegfried Schildmacher , Winfried Brinkmann, Edzard Bakker, Peter Rosenstein (Red.): Dr. med. Ludwig Sievers . In Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Freemasons - a walk through the streets of Hanover. Hanover 2015, p. 127

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Siegfried Schildmacher, Winfried Brinkmann, Edzard Bakker, Peter Rosenstein (ed.): Dr. med. Ludwig Sievers . In Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Freemasons - a walk through the streets of Hanover. Hanover 2015, p. 127
  2. ^ A b Thomas Gerst: Medical professional organization and professional politics in Germany 1945–1955. Stuttgart 2004, pp. 25-30
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Koch: Dependent on the commitment of doctors ...: 100 years ago: Medical associations founded in Prussia , Deutsches Ärzteblatt , December 1, 1988
  4. ^ History , National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians
personal data
SURNAME Sievers, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and professional politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1968
Place of death Hanover