Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (born Schulz in Eisenach in 1946) is a German physician and former politician of the Christian Democratic Union. Refused a university place at first, she did a two-year placement at the forensic medicine institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin, studied medicine from 1966 and qualified in 1972. She became a specialist in lung diseases in 1979, took her doctorate in 1980 and directed pulmonary and tuberculosis care in East Berlin through the 1980s. As president of the first freely elected Volkskammer in 1990 she was also the last head of state of East Germany, and the first woman to hold such an office in a German state. She later served as a federal minister and as parliamentary state secretary at the health ministry, and led the Berlin Red Cross.
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ist eine deutsche Ärztin und ehemalige Politikerin
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ist eine deutsche Ärztin und ehemalige Politikerin
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Seit 1979 ist sie Fachärztin für Lungenkrankheiten.
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