Siegfried Bärsch

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Siegfried Bärsch (born February 14, 1920 in Frankenberg / Sa. , † September 1, 2008 in Cologne ) was a German doctor and politician ( SPD ). From 1949 to 1961 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1938 and completing the Reich Labor Service , Bärsch studied medicine at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Leipzig from 1940 (during World War II) . As a war student, he was drafted several times into the Wehrmacht . From 1945 he worked at the Dermatology Clinic of the University Hospital Halle and in 1946 was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. In 1948 he fled the Soviet occupation zone to West Germany . He opened a doctor's practice in Bremen . Since 1948 he was an editor of a political weekly newspaper in Bremen.

Bärsch had joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in Halle (Saale) in 1945 and retired in 1946 as an opponent of the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED . In the SPD Bremen since 1948 , he was elected deputy state chairman in 1949. In the Bundestag constituency of Bremen-West , he won a direct mandate in the (first) federal election in 1949 . In the parliamentary elections in 1953 and parliamentary elections in 1957 he was able to defend it. After leaving the Bundestag in 1961, he turned back to medicine and opened a new doctor's practice in Cologne. When he died in 2008, he was the last surviving member of the Bundestag elected in 1949.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: About a case of spontaneous healing of a binocular retinal ablation .
  2. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder: record holder in parliament. Parliament, June 10, 2013, accessed on April 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bärsch, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenberg / Sa.
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2008
Place of death Cologne