Ministry of Health

The Ministry of Health (Cheers, also MfGe) was that the health competent Ministry of the German Democratic Republic .

After the founding of the GDR in 1949, it emerged from the German Central Administration for Healthcare . For a short time the name was Ministry of Labor and Health .

Initially, the MfG was housed in the main building of today's Federal Ministry of Economics on Invalidenstrasse . From 1972 the MfG had its seat at Rathausstrasse 3 in East Berlin . The building was demolished in 2008.

Most recently (1990) 38 institutions were subordinate to the Ministry; including:

• the central office for medical assessment,
• the Academy for Medical Training in the GDR ,
• the German Hygiene Museum ,
• the Research Institute for Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis ,
• the Central Institute for Diabetes .

minister

• Luitpold Steidle (1949–1958)
• Max Sefrin (1958–1971)
• Ludwig Mecklinger (1971–1989)
• Klaus Thielmann (1989–1990)
• Jürgen Kleditzsch (1990)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former Ministry of Health of the GDR , Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing
2. ^ History and architecture of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in Berlin , BMWi