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Sabine Bergmann-Pohl Bundesministerin a. D. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Bergmann-Pohl in 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Head of state ofEast Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||
Interim | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 5 April 1990 – 2 October 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister-President | Hans Modrow Lothar de Maizière | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Manfred Gerlach(asChairman of the State Council) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Richard von Weizsäcker(asPresident of Germany) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| President of the Volkskammer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 5 April 1990 – 2 October 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Deputy | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Günther Maleuda | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Rita Süssmuth(asPresident of the Bundestag) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister for Special Affairs | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 3 October 1990 – 18 January 1991 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chancellor | Helmut Kohl | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Position established | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Position abolished | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Health | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 18 January 1991 – 26 October 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chancellor | Helmut Kohl | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister | Gerda Hasselfeldt Horst Seehofer | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Anton Pfeifer | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Christa Nickels | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Sabine Schulz (1946-04-20)20 April 1946 (age 79) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union(1990–) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | Christian Democratic Union (East)(1981–1990) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Children | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Berlin | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Humboldt University of Berlin (Dr. med.) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (néeSchulz;German:[zaˈbiːnəˈbɛʁkmanpoːl]; born 20 April 1946) is a German doctor and politician. A member of theChristian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), she waspresident of thePeople's Chamber ofEast Germany from April to October 1990. During this time, she was also the interim head of state of East Germany, holding both posts until the state's merger intoWest Germany in October. She was the youngest, only female and the last head of state of East Germany. After thereunification of Germany, she served in the government of ChancellorHelmut Kohl, first asMinister for Special Affairs, one of five appointed in October 1990 to provide representation for the last East German government in the Kohl cabinet, then as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Health for the remainder of Chancellor Kohl's time in office.[1]
She was born Sabine Schulz inEisenach,Thuringia. After leavingschool in 1964, Bergmann-Pohl was initially not admitted to university and entered a two-year internship at the Institute of Forensic Medicine atHumboldt University inEast Berlin. In 1966, she began to studymedicine and graduated in 1972 with a diploma in medicine. From 1979, she worked as alung specialist and in 1980, earned a medical doctorate.
From 1980 to 1985, she was medical director of the polyclinic department for lung diseases andtuberculosis inBerlin-Friedrichshain. From 1985 to 1990, she was medical director at the District Office for lung diseases and tuberculosis inEast Berlin.
In 1990, Bergmann-Pohl was made Patron of the General Disabled Persons in Germany (ABID eV). In 2003, she became President of the BerlinRed Cross and a member of the Presidium of theInternational Federation, where she has served as vice president since 2007.
In 1981, she joined theEast German CDU, one of thebloc parties of the GDR, and in 1987 was elected to the district board inEast Berlin.
In thegeneral election of March 1990, the only free and fair election ever held in East Germany, she was elected to thePeople's Chamber, which on 5 April elected her its president. On the same day, parliament also abolished theState Council, the country's collective presidency. Under the Constitution, the president of the People's Chamber was ex officio vice president of the GDR; as such, Bergmann-Pohl assumed the role of interim head of state as well. In that role, she presided over the People's Chamber formally petitioning to join theFederal Republic of Germany on 23 August, as well as the overwhelming approval of theunification treaty on 12 September.
AfterGerman reunification on 3 October 1990, she became a member of theBundestag and, along with other leading members of the last East German government, was also appointedFederal Minister for Special Affairs in ChancellorHelmut Kohl'scabinet.[2]
After the1990 all-German election, she was appointedParliamentary Secretary in theFederal Ministry for Health on 18 January 1991. Following her party's defeat in the1998 election, she departed from the government on 27 October 1998 but remained in the Bundestag until 2002.
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl was married to Ulrich Pohl from 1972 to 1979. They had two children. Since 1990 she is married to Jürgen Bergmann. She is aProtestant.[3][4]
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| Preceded byas Chairman of theState Council of East Germany | Head of State of East Germany 1990 | Succeeded byasPresident ofUnited Germany |
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