Werner Schuster (politician)

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Rudolf Werner Schuster (born January 20, 1939 in Moshi , Tanzania ; † May 10, 2001 in Wiesbaden ) was a German doctor , medical computer scientist and politician (SPD).

Life

Schuster was born in 1939 in Sanya-Moshi in the Kilimanjaro region in Tanganyika in East Africa as the son of German settlers. In 1958 he made the grammar school in Rosenheim graduated from high school and then studied at Tübingen University Medicine . In 1966 he passed the state examination, followed in the same year by his doctorate at the Physiological Institute in Tübingen. In between, he served from 1959 to 1960 the military service with the mountain hunters .

Schuster received his license to practice medicine at the St. Joseph Hospital in Bremerhaven in 1970 . Since 1971 he has been working as an emergency doctor as part of the medical emergency substitution service in Wiesbaden . From 1970 to 1983 he was head of the health care department at the Hessian Center for Data Processing , Wiesbaden . In 1983 he was awarded the certificate of the Society for Medical Informatics and Statistics (GMDS) as a medical computer scientist and since 1984 he has been working in the same position in the municipal data center (KGRZ) in Gießen .

Schuster had been a member of the SPD since 1964 and from 1985 to 1995 he was SPD sub-district chairman in the Rheingau-Taunus district . From 1972 to 1989 he was a city ​​councilor in Idstein im Taunus and from 1975 to 1985 chairman of his party. Since 1989 he has been a member of the district council and since 1990 a member of the German Bundestag , into which he was able to move through the Hesse state list. He represented the Rheingau-Taunus / Limburg-Weilburg constituency in the Bundestag . During his time as a member of parliament, Schuster mainly dealt with development and health policy , with a focus on Africa. Schuster died on May 10, 2001 in a Wiesbaden clinic of complications from cancer.

Development policy

Schuster was known and respected as a development politician across party lines. He and Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul , who later became Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development , were close friends. In 1985, he founded the Citizens' Partnership Third World Idstein eV (today Citizen Partnership One World eV, Idstein / People help People - One World ) in Idstein in order to be able to implement specific development projects in Tanzania. The association focuses on the Moshi region at the foot of Kilimanjaro. In Moshi itself, Schuster initiated the establishment of the non-governmental organization (NGO) Friends In Development Association (FIDA). Schuster started several networks and tried to link regional and national NGOs in Germany.

On his initiative, the partnership between the Protestant parish of Idstein and the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Moshi-Pasua was established in 1988. It is one of the oldest parish partnerships with a parish in Africa.

On May 9, 2003, on the initiative of the Council of the Federal City of Bonn, the municipal office building in Bonn's Kaiserstraße 201 was named Dr. R. Werner Schuster - House named. There are many offices of NGOs with development policy goals in the building.

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  1. ↑ Oliver Bock: Technocrat with visions. Member of the Bundestag Werner Schuster dies. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Rhein-Main-Zeitung) No. 109 of May 11, 2001, s. 80
personal data
SURNAME Schuster, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuster, Rudolf Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Moshi , Tanzania
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2001
Place of death Wiesbaden