Wolfgang Böhmer

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Wolfgang Böhmer (born January 27, 1936 in Dürrhennersdorf ) is a German doctor and politician ( CDU ). From 2002 to 2011 he was Prime Minister of the State of Saxony-Anhalt .

Life and work

Wolfgang Böhmer grew up in Dürrhennersdorf in the Saxon part of Upper Lusatia , where his parents worked as farmers . After graduating from the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Löbau in 1954 , Böhmer studied medicine at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1959. med. His dissertation is entitled On the Duration of Ventricular Extrasystoles .

From 1960 he worked as a doctor at the gynecological clinic in Görlitz and was recognized as a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics in 1966 . In 1967 he became the first senior physician at the Görlitz women's clinic. From 1974 to 1991 he was chief physician at the Paul-Gerhardt-Stift hospital in Lutherstadt Wittenberg . In 1983 he completed his habilitation at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with the thesis The development of the individual and social burden of human reproduction . During his time in Wittenberg, he dealt extensively with the historical development of health and social services in Lutherstadt Wittenberg and was co-author of four volumes of the urban history research series.

Boehmers wife Barbara died in 2001. The marriage resulted in a son. In July 2004 Böhmer married his former surgical sister Brigitte Klein in Wittenberg.

Political party

In the GDR , Böhmer was involved in Protestant church circles and in 1990 became a member of the GDR CDU . From 1998 to 2004 he was state chairman of the CDU Saxony-Anhalt .

MP

From 1990 to 2002 and from 2005 to 2006 Böhmer was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt and from 1998 to 2002 its vice-president and from 2001 to 2002 chairman of the CDU parliamentary group . From July 27, 2007 to 2011, he was again a member of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. He moved up for Dirk Schatz .

Public offices

From 1991 to 1993, as Minister of Finance, Böhmer was a member of the state government of Saxony-Anhalt led by Prime Minister Werner Münch . After his resignation, he was Minister for Labor and Social Affairs from 1993 to 1994 in the cabinet headed by Christoph Bergner . After the black-yellow coalition lost its majority in the 1994 state elections, Böhmer left the state government.

After Reinhard Höppner's SPD government, which was tolerated by the PDS , was voted out of office in the 2002 state elections , Böhmer formed a black-yellow coalition and was elected Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt on May 16, 2002 .

From November 1, 2002 to October 31, 2003 he was also President of the Federal Council .

In the state elections in 2006 , the CDU under his leadership was able to maintain its position as the strongest party with 36.2% of the votes. Because of the heavy losses of the FDP, the CDU was dependent on a new government partner and formed a coalition with the Saxony-Anhalt SPD . The new state parliament met for the first time on April 24, 2006 and again elected Böhmer as prime minister. In October 2010 he took over the chairmanship of the Prime Minister's Conference from his Rhineland-Palatinate counterpart Kurt Beck .

Due to age, he did not run for the 2011 state election . Minister of Economic Affairs Reiner Haseloff was nominated by the CDU as a top candidate and candidate for the office of prime minister. With nine years in office, Böhmer is the longest-serving Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt.

He was also a board member of the Leucorea Foundation from 1993–2002 , a member of the main committee of the Diaconal Work of the Evangelical Church in the ecclesiastical province of Saxony from 1994–2001, a board member of the Paul Gerhardt Foundation in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 1997–2002 a member of the board of trustees of the Luther Foundation. Memorial sites in Saxony-Anhalt and is still a member of the social chamber of the Evangelical Church in Germany and a member of the Presidium of the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics. V., member of the board of trustees of the aid organization CARE Germany and member of the presidium of the Oskar Patzelt Foundation . In 2014 he was elected chairman of the independent expert commission set up by the German Bundestag on the future of the BStU authority .

criticism

In a Focus interview in February 2008, Böhmer commented on a series of child killings in East Germany and blamed the GDR mentality for this: Since an abortion had been possible in the GDR since 1972 in the first three months without giving any further reasons, it would have happened there developed a “more frivolous attitude towards developing life”, which continues to have an impact today. This met with cross-party criticism. On February 28, 2008, Böhmer apologized to the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt for his remarks and declared that such a “generalized statement ... was not justified”. He explained that due to a mistake by the State Chancellery that approved the interview, the impression was wrong. The theologian Richard Schröder was one of the few who support Böhmer. Schröder argued that the GDR saw abortions as a welcome means of increasing the availability of labor.

Awards

See also

Fonts (selection)

  • The Wittenberg medical system of the Reformation era. In: Scientific contributions from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 1982/7 T. 45,
  • Martin Luther's influence on the social and medical system of his time. In: The German Health Service , 38, 1983
  • The Common Box - The Social Thought of the Reformation. In: The German Health Service , 38, 1983
  • Martin Luther and the Wittenberg Medical System. In : zeichen der Zeit , vol. 37 1983
  • The Wittenberg caesarean section of 1610. In: Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie , 105, 1983
  • Pro Memoria Daniel Sennert (1572-1637). In: Journal of Internal Medicine , Vol. 42, 1987
  • The supraregional importance of the medical faculty of the University of Wittenberg. In: Stefan Oehmig: 700 years of Wittenberg City - University - Reformation . 1995
  • On the history of the Wittenberg health and social services. In: Series of publications by the Wittenberg City History Museum
    • Part 5 / I: From the early city period to the end of the 17th century . Wittenberg 1981 (with Ronny Kabus)
    • Part 6 / II: The 18th Century . 1983
    • Part 7 / III: The 19th Century . 1984
    • Part 8 / IV: The first half of the 20th century . 1988
  • Martin Luther's influence on the health system of his time. In: Journal for the entire internal medicine , vol. 38, 1983
  • The common box and its significance for the municipal health system in Wittenberg. In: Scientific journal of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , mathematical and natural science series, vol. 34, 1985
  • The healing Wittenberg. Drei Kastanien Verlag, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-942005-10-4 (Ed.)

literature

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Böhmer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Wolfgang Böhmer  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Fuhrer, Alexander Wendt: Winner election: Governing instead of pension. In: Focus No. 18/2002. April 29, 2002, accessed April 12, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Wedding: Prime Minister Böhmer secretly says “I do”. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . November 23, 2004, accessed April 12, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Election of the 5th State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt on March 26, 2006. State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt - The election officer, accessed on December 4, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Our structure. CARE Deutschland eV, accessed on March 12, 2019 .
  5. ^ Periscope: "Careless attitude". In: Focus No. 9/2008. February 25, 2008, accessed April 12, 2014 .
  6. ^ Saxony-Anhalt: Prime Minister Böhmer blames the GDR mentality for infanticide. In: Spiegel Online . February 24, 2008, accessed April 12, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Ulrike Plewnia, Göran Schattauer, Alexander Wendt: Abortions: Most normal thing in the world. In: Focus No. 10/2008. March 3, 2008, accessed April 12, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Child killings interview: Böhmer apologizes to East German women. In: Spiegel Online . February 28, 2008, accessed April 12, 2014 .
  9. ↑ "The GDR coinage continues" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 2008 ( online ).
  10. ^ Golden badges of honor from the Oskar Patzelt Foundation
  11. ↑ Federal Gazette No. 214 of November 16, 2007, page 8029
  12. ↑ Wolfgang Gorsboth: Professor Dr. Böhmer becomes an honorary citizen . In: Super Sunday , October 28, 2013; accessed on December 4, 2014. Ute König: Former country father becomes honorary citizen . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , Wittenberg / Graefenhainichen, October 31, 2013; accessed on December 4, 2014. CNI: Böhmer becomes honorary citizen of Wittenberg . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , Wittenberg / Graefenhainichen, October 12, 2013; Retrieved December 4, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Böhmer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the State Parliament, Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Dürrhennersdorf , Administrative Authority Löbau , Saxony