Paul Eckel

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Eckel (* August 8, 1900 , † August 13, 1971 ) was a German physician and professional politician .

Life

Eckel, who came from Grumbach , studied medicine in Heidelberg and Munich after completing high school in Kreuznach and military service in the last year of World War I and, like his two older brothers, became active in the Ghibellinia gymnastics club in Heidelberg . He received his X-ray specialist training in Bonn and at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin, before settling as an X-ray specialist in Spandau. During the Second World War he worked as a radiologist in various hospitals. In 1948 he settled in Hanover as a radiologist .

From 1926 to 1933 Eckel was chairman of the Reich Association of Employed Doctors eV, founder of the Lower Saxony State Association of the Hartmannbund and its chairman until 1957, from 1957 to 1960 a member of the advisory board of the federal board of the Hartmannbund, from which he resigned in 1957. In 1952 Eckel became a member of the board of the Lower Saxony Medical Association , its Vice-President in 1954, and President of the Chamber from April 1958 to 1971. In 1960/61 he was President of the World Medical Association . He was also a member of the board of directors of the German Medical Association and the assembly of representatives of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians .

Paul Eckel was an honorary professor at the Medical Faculty of the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Eckel was with Edith Eckel, b. Meyer, married (* 1899 in Wilhelmshaven, † 1982 in Hanover). The couple had five children together: Etta (* 1933), doctorate lawyer and with the Federal Economics Minister Karl Schiller married, Heyo (* 1935), a Doctor doctor, radiologist and able politician , Hilka, married making, (1936 *) Economics activist , Frauke married, Haffner (* 1939), business economist and Meike, married Heym (* 1941), teacher .

Awards

literature

  • Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , August 16, 1971 (obituary)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CC sheets . Jhg. 1971, issue 4, p. 143.
personal data
SURNAME Eckel, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and medical professional
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1900
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1971