Siegfried Moerchel

Siegfried Moerchel (born August 26, 1918 in Bagenz , Spremberg district ; † January 11, 2002 in Salzgitter ) was a German doctor and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After attending school in Spremberg and graduating from high school in Cottbus in 1937, Moerchel initially served in the Reich labor service and began studying medicine at the universities in Berlin , Leipzig and Greifswald in 1939 , which he completed in 1944 with the state examination. In 1944 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He was then drafted into the Wehrmacht and took part in the Second World War in 1944/45 as a battalion doctor in a paratrooper division. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner, from which he was released in 1947.

In 1947, Moerchel moved from Misdroy to West Germany as a displaced person and settled in Lebenstedt . Here he worked as a general practitioner since 1948. From 1958 to 1964 he acted as a judge at the Federal Social Court .

Political party

Moerchel joined the CDU in 1948 and was chairman of the CDU district association Salzgitter-Lebenstedt from 1950 to 1964.

MP

Moerchel was a senator from 1952 to 1964 and a council member of the city of Salzgitter from 1981 to 1991. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1957. He was drawn into parliament via the state list of the CDU Lower Saxony. In the Bundestag he was a full member of the committee for health issues, the committee for social policy and, from 1956, the committee for nuclear issues.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 573.