Walter Friedeberger

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Walter Axel Friedeberger (born September 25, 1898 in Breslau ; † May 14, 1967 in Berlin ) was a German doctor , association functionary of the health insurance funds and health politician. He was director of the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden .

Life

Friedeberger, son of a businessman, grew up in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , attended the Königstädtische Gymnasium in Berlin and passed his Abitur in 1916 . He studied medicine in Berlin and Innsbruck and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . In the same year he joined the SPD . From 1922 to 1933 he worked in the Diagnostic Institute of the Association of Health Insurance Funds in Berlin, from 1923 to 1933 he was also deputy chief physician and managing director of the association's outpatient clinic. From 1926 to 1930 he studied economics and passed the exam as a qualified economist.

On March 22, 1933, Friedeberger was arrested by the SA together with Max Ebel , both members of the SPD, in the office of the Main Association of Health Insurance Funds and imprisoned in the SA prison Papestrasse in Berlin-Tempelhof . Friedeberger was still able to emigrate to France in 1933 , where he was interned in various camps between 1939 and 1941, and later in Morocco , among other places . Friedeberger later went to the United States .

In 1947 he returned to Germany and became a member of the SED and the FDGB . First he was a consultant in the central administration for health care of the SBZ until 1950 , where he was involved in the establishment and development of outpatient clinics and polyclinics. From 1951 to 1958 he was director of the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden . After all, from December 1959 until his death in 1967 he was Deputy Minister for Health Care of the GDR (successor to Erwin Marcusson ). From March 1964 to 1967 he was also rector of the Academy for Medical Training (successor to Walter Redetzky ).

From 1963 to 1967 Friedeberger was a representative of the Berlin People's Chamber and a member of the SED faction .

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He is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin.

Awards

literature

  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 196.
  • Volker Klimpel: Politician-Doctors. Biographical-bibliographical lexicon . Guido Pressler Verlag , Hürtgenwald 2001, p. 150.
  • Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon . Volume 2. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2005, p. 198.
  • Peter Nötzold:  Friedeberger, Walter Axel . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Jörg Becken: AOK Berlin. From the local health insurance to the health insurance - a piece of lived social history . Bebra, Berlin 2008, p. 392.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ after Baumgartner, Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR (1996), Müller-Enbergs, Wer war wer in der DDR (2010) and Fieber, Resistance in Berlin (2005); Becken (2008) gives May 15 as the date of death, Klimpel (2001) May 19.
  2. ↑ A deserved doctor of the people . In: Neues Deutschland , March 5, 1964, p. 5.
  3. ^ The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 4th legislative term. State Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1964, p. 626 ( gvoon.de [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Friedeberger, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedeberger, Walter Axel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, association official and health politician, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1967
Place of death Berlin