Wolfgang Liebe (pharmacist)

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Wolfgang Liebe on May 7, 2012
Dear Löwen pharmacy on the Rossmarkt in Bad Liebenwerda
The old lion pharmacy , Breite Straße

Gustav Martin Wolfgang Liebe (born June 17, 1917 in Liebenwerda ; † August 1, 2017 in Bad Liebenwerda ) was the oldest pharmacist still working in Germany during his time . He ran his pharmacy in the Brandenburg spa town of Bad Liebenwerda as a private company since 1947, even through the period of the GDR planned economy . Liebe was an honorary citizen of his hometown and an honorary doctorate from the International University of Kyrgyzstan (IUK) in Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan .

Live and act

Wolfgang Liebe was born in 1917 as the son of the pharmacist Albin Liebe and his wife Martha Liebe, b. Neimann was born in the house of the Liebenwerda pharmacy on Breiten Straße. The traditional Löwen-Apotheke , first mentioned in the Thirty Years' War , was run by Dear Father already during the Weimar Republic . Love attended the school in Liebenwerda up to the sixth grade, then the Lessing school in Kamenz , since 1925 upper secondary school . Two years later, due to a change of residence, he came to the German Oberschule in Nossen , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1936 . After that, Wolfgang Liebe spent two practical years in his father's pharmacy until he began studying pharmacy in Leipzig in 1938 after taking his pre-exam . He was released from military service during World War II due to minor heart problems. In 1941 he achieved the grade very good in the state examination . After completing the social half year in the Elsterwerda pharmacy, he received the license to practice medicine .

Back in his father's pharmacy, he took over as manager in 1945 and owner in 1947. However, he strove to study medicine , which he was approved in 1948 on the condition that his pharmacy could continue to operate. He began studying medicine at the University of Halle , where he completed the first section of the medical examination in 1951 . Liebe carried out other internships at the clinics of the Humboldt University in Berlin . There he began with a dissertation on the topic of early treatment of congenital hip dysplasia , with Professor Friedrich Loeffler as his doctoral supervisor.

Shortly before this work was completed, there were personnel problems in his pharmacy, which forced him to quit his job and ensure the economic survival of the company. It was the only pharmacy in the Cottbus district that was still privately owned . In the years that followed, Wolfgang Liebe was unable to finish his studies and dissertation. However, he managed to continue to run his pharmacy as a private company against the state interests of the GDR . Love has held the title of Pharmaceutical Council since 1972 . After the reunification , he left his father's house with his pharmacy in 1995 and moved to the Bad Liebenwerdaer Rossmarkt - his “answer to the now established market economy ”. His high medical and pharmacological knowledge as well as his way of dealing with people made him and his pharmacy known nationwide, to which a television coverage of his life that has been broadcast several times since 2009 contributed. Until his death, Liebe worked every day in his Löwen pharmacy on Rossmarkt, making him the oldest pharmacist still active in the Federal Republic of Germany at that time. Wolfgang Liebe was married, his wife died in 2005.

Quote

“My fulfillment is the pharmacy itself, it is to take a little weight off people's hearts. Peace and fulfillment allow me to achieve harmony. "

- Wolfgang Liebe : In an interview from 2009

Honors

In 1972 Wolfgang Liebe was awarded the title of Pharmacist , which recognized his outstanding achievements in the immediate medical and social care of citizens in the former GDR.

Based on a resolution of the city ​​council in May 2007, Liebe was made an honorary citizen of Bad Liebenwerda on June 17, 2007, his 90th birthday . As part of a public ceremony, Mayor Thomas Richter awarded the title of honorary citizen, with which the services of love to the city of Liebenwerda and the people who live there were honored.

In 2009, by decision of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International University of Kyrgyzstan (IUK) in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) , Liebe was honored with the title " Doctor honoris causa ". With the honorary award, Liebes life's work and his services in the social field were recognized and honored. The award certificate was handed over at a ceremony on July 26, 2009 by Wolfgang Eckelmann, Chairman of the Association for City Marketing and Economy Bad Liebenwerda . The association had been campaigning for an honorary doctorate to be awarded to Liebe since 2007 and, among other things, found support from Dear professional colleagues and the medical profession of Bad Liebenwerda. The Institute for Pharmacy at the University of Leipzig also praised the high level of social commitment shown by Liebe, but, like the state governments in Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt that were also addressed, referred to the existing university laws of the German federal states, according to which an honorary doctorate is only awarded for "special merits in science, technology, Culture and Art "is made possible and an award for" Services in the social field "is not planned. The connection to the IUK in Kyrgyzstan, founded in 1993, which is internationally oriented and into which an International School of Medicine (ISM) is integrated, was then established through contacts with university circles in Aachen and Poland .

On May 7, 2012, Wolfgang Liebe was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany at a meeting of the district council in Falkenberg / Elster by the district administrator. With this award, the honorary commitment Liebes was honored.

A senior citizens' home in Bad Liebenwerda, which opened in October 2016, was named after Wolfgang Liebe.

Media (selection)

Literature and print media

  • Stephan Creuzburg: (title unnamed) In: Pharmazeutische Zeitung of June 17, 1997, p. 90, and of June 13, 2002, p. 78.
  • Anette Kohler: Retirement is a foreign concept. In: (unnamed peridic) of June 17, 1997.
  • Karsten Bär: Wolfgang Liebe became an honorary citizen yesterday. In: Lausitzer Rundschau from June 18, 2007 ( online ).
  • Lutz Bommel: A life for people's health . In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde Bad Liebenwerda eV (Hrsg.): Local calendar for the country between Elbe and Elster 2010/2011 . 59th year. Bad Liebenwerda 2012, p. 131-140 .

watch TV

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Liebe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The oldest pharmacist in Brandenburg is dead , lr-online.de, August 2, 2017, accessed on August 4, 2017
  2. ↑ Stephan Creuzburg: Article in the Pharmazeutische Zeitung of June 17, 1997, p. 90, and of June 13, 2002, p. 78.
  3. ↑ a b c d Michael Klauß: 20 years of German unity: A life for the pharmacy - Germany's longest-serving pharmacist in Bad Liebenwerda. (PDF file) (No longer available online.) In: LFB Informations Land Brandenburg, Issue No. 2/2009. State Association of the Liberal Professions State of Brandenburg e. V., p. 4 , archived from the original ; Retrieved August 7, 2010 .
  4. ↑ a b Akzente editorial staff: "I am very happy that I am so old". (PDF file) (No longer available online.) In: Akzente aktuell, issue No. 2/2007. Pharmatechnik GmbH & Co. KG, Starnberg, pp. 8–9 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 11, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.pharmatechnik.de  
  5. ↑ We are still needed , the old ones tackle it ; A film by Tom Kühne
  6. ↑ We are still needed Official website of the ARD
  7. ↑ We are still needed  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ottonia Media@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ottonia.de  
  8. ↑ Introduced - Brandenburger Personality, rbb, accessed on January 24, 2012
  9. ↑ Pharmacies and health food stores ( Memento from August 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Official website of Bad Liebenwerda
  10. ↑ lausitz-branchen.de: Elbe-Elster district honored committed pharmacists from Bad Liebenwerda ( Memento from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ 90th birthday of the pharmacist and pharmacist Wolfgang Liebe. Elbe-Elster-Fernsehen / Elster TV, accessed on August 10, 2010 .
  12. ↑ Karsten Bär: Wolfgang Liebe honorary citizen since yesterday. Lausitzer Rundschau , June 18, 2007, accessed on August 10, 2010 .
  13. ↑ Website of the International University of Kyrgyzstan (Russian)
  14. ↑ Website of the International School of Medicine ( Memento of February 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  15. ↑ Doctorate for the oldest working pharmacist in Germany. Lausitzer Rundschau , July 27, 2009, accessed on August 10, 2010 .
  16. ↑ Honorary doctorate for the oldest pharmacist in Germany. (PDF file; 767 kB) In: From the district administration. Kreisanzeiger für der Landkreis Elbe-Elster , August 6, 2009, p. 2 , accessed on August 10, 2010 (Volume 14, Herzberg (Elster), Number 15).
  17. ↑ Nachrichten Elbe-Elster-TV, accessed on March 11, 2012 ( Memento from June 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ "Sonntagswochenblatt", edition 10/2012, p. 1
  19. ↑ http://www.lr-online.de/regionen/elbe-elster/elsterwerda/Ja-wir-haben-es-geschaltet;art1059,5647618 Lausitzer Rundschau: "Yes, we did it!" 6.5 million euro senior citizens' home inaugurated despite many construction process problems
personal data
SURNAME Dear Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dear, Gustav Martin Wolfgang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Liebenwerda
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 2017
Place of death Bad Liebenwerda