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Bruno Menzel
Bruno Menzel (25 February 1932 – 14 September 1996) was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
A physician by trade, Menzel became politically active during the Peaceful Revolution, co-founding the Free Democratic Party of the GDR and serving as their only leader until the merger with the West German FDP. He afterward was elected to the Bundestag, retiring in 1994 and dying soon thereafter.
After passing his Abitur in 1950, Menzel began studying medicine at the University of Halle, completing his state exam and doctorate in medicine (Dr. med.) in 1956.
He trained as a specialist in internal medicine until 1961, and also trained as a subspecialist in infectious diseases and tropical medicine. He then became head of the 3rd medical clinic at the district hospital in Dessau and later served as the leading chief physician there.
The Society for Infectious and Tropical Medicine elected him as its deputy chair; he also served as chairman of the local chapter of the German Red Cross in the GDR.
Menzel became politically active during the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR. In January 1990, he was one of the co-founders of the Committee for the Formation of a Free Democratic Party in the GDR, and in the following month, he was elected chairman at the party's founding convention in wealthy Berlin-Weißensee.[excessive citations] He was the favored candidate of the West German FDP leadership because he was not as opposed to a possible merger with a renewed LDPD as the East Berlin founding circle.
Shortly afterward, he led the party into an electoral alliance with the now renamed LDP and the German Forum Party called Association of Free Democrats (German: Bund Freier Demokraten) (BFD) for the Volkskammer election in March.
The party struggled, it had low membership and it was hardly possible to build up its own structures. Even the West German FDP paid more attention to the former bloc party LDP with its over 100,000 members.
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Bruno Menzel
Bruno Menzel (25 February 1932 – 14 September 1996) was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
A physician by trade, Menzel became politically active during the Peaceful Revolution, co-founding the Free Democratic Party of the GDR and serving as their only leader until the merger with the West German FDP. He afterward was elected to the Bundestag, retiring in 1994 and dying soon thereafter.
After passing his Abitur in 1950, Menzel began studying medicine at the University of Halle, completing his state exam and doctorate in medicine (Dr. med.) in 1956.
He trained as a specialist in internal medicine until 1961, and also trained as a subspecialist in infectious diseases and tropical medicine. He then became head of the 3rd medical clinic at the district hospital in Dessau and later served as the leading chief physician there.
The Society for Infectious and Tropical Medicine elected him as its deputy chair; he also served as chairman of the local chapter of the German Red Cross in the GDR.
Menzel became politically active during the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR. In January 1990, he was one of the co-founders of the Committee for the Formation of a Free Democratic Party in the GDR, and in the following month, he was elected chairman at the party's founding convention in wealthy Berlin-Weißensee.[excessive citations] He was the favored candidate of the West German FDP leadership because he was not as opposed to a possible merger with a renewed LDPD as the East Berlin founding circle.
Shortly afterward, he led the party into an electoral alliance with the now renamed LDP and the German Forum Party called Association of Free Democrats (German: Bund Freier Demokraten) (BFD) for the Volkskammer election in March.
The party struggled, it had low membership and it was hardly possible to build up its own structures. Even the West German FDP paid more attention to the former bloc party LDP with its over 100,000 members.
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