Rolf Meinecke

Rolf Meinecke

Rolf Meinecke (born December 4, 1917 in Hamburg ; † March 27, 1984 there ) was a German doctor and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After attending elementary school and graduating from the Lichtwark School in Hamburg in 1937 , Meinecke did Reich labor and military service . He began studying medicine in the spring of 1939 and was alternately deployed in hospital and troop service during the Second World War . He completed his studies, which he was able to continue during the war, with the medical state examination and the doctorate to become Dr. med. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in 1949. From 1950 to 1965 he worked as a doctor in the internal department of a Hamburg hospital, most recently as senior physician.

Political party

Meinecke had been a member of the SPD since 1950.

MP

Meinecke was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1957 to 1966 . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1965 to 1980. In parliament he represented the constituency of Hamburg-Nord II . From 1972 to 1976 he was first deputy chairman and then from 1976 to 1980 chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Education and Science.

On the initiative of Rolf Meinecke and Claus Arndt , the Bundestag decided in 1978 to amend the Personal Status Act , which was intended to stop the discrimination of transsexuals . However, it had taken six years before the two MPs were able to implement their plan. Core point of the law: "Anyone who has not felt that they belong to the gender that corresponds to the information in their birth entry for a long time can apply for a judicial determination that they are to be assigned to the opposite sex". Medical gender changes were thus recognized and the desired gender could be entered in ID cards.

Honors

• 1973: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1980: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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