Rudolf Soenning

Rudolf Soenning (born December 5, 1904 in Memmingen ; † August 2, 1980 there ) was a German athlete, doctor and politician ( FDP , CSU ).

Soenning attended the upper secondary school in Augsburg and after several studies received the state examination in medicine in Hamburg . He dealt with public issues and tasks early on, so he was initially active in the youth movement. In 1927 he initiated the establishment of the Compulsory Academic Sports Association of the University of Munich . At the Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz in 1928 , he took part as a bobsledder in the Germany I season, which ultimately took 18th place. Later he worked in England , France and South America before he trained as an ophthalmologist at several university clinics and ran his own practice in Berlin . During the Second World War , in his role as medical officer, he headed ophthalmic stations in Norway , Finland and Greece . After the end of the war he settled in his hometown Memmingen and worked there as an ophthalmologist. In the state election in 1950 he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament for the first time via the Schwaben constituency list of the FDP . In 1952 he then moved to the CSU, where he was chairman of the health policy working group. In the four subsequent elections he won the direct mandate in the district of Neu-Ulm-Stadt und -Land , Illertissen , today's district of Neu-Ulm , so that he was a member of the state parliament until 1970. He also represented the interests of doctors in the Bavarian State Medical Association and, from 1953, as chairman of the then newly founded Bavarian State Health Council . He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on January 15, 1962.

Web links

• Rudolf Soenning in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History