| Sabine Bergmann-Pohl | |
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| President of the Volkskammer | |
| In office 5 April 1990 – 3 October 1990 |
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| Preceded by | Günther Maleuda |
| Succeeded by | Office Abolished |
| Head of State of East Germany | |
| In office 5 April 1990 – 3 October 1990 |
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| Prime Minister | Lothar de Maizière |
| Preceded by | Manfred Gerlach |
| Succeeded by | Richard von Weizsäcker (as President of reunified Germany) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 April 1946 Eisenach, German Realm |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
| Alma mater | Humboldt University |
| Religion | Protestantism |
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl née Schulz (born 20 April 1946 in Eisenach, Thuringia) is a German politician. A member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), she was president of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic from April to October 1990 and as such the last head of state. After the reunification of Germany, she served in the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
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Sabine Bergmann-Pohl was born in Eisenach. After leaving school in 1964, Bergmann-Pohl was initially not admitted to university and entered a two-year internship at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1966, she began to study medicine and gradudated in 1972 with a diploma in medicine. Since 1979, she worked as a lung specialist and in 1980 earned a medical doctorate.
From 1980 to 1985, she was medical director of the polyclinic department for lung diseases, and tuberculosis in Berlin-Friedrichshain. From 1985 to 1990 she was Medical Director at the District Office for lung diseases and tuberculosis in East Berlin.
Since 1990 Sabine Bergmann-Pohl is the Patron of the General Disabled Persons in Germany (ABID eV) and since 2003 President of the Berlin Red Cross. Also since 2003 she is a member of the Presidium of the International Federation, and since 2007 she is vice president there.
In 1981, she joined the CDU, one of the bloc parties of the GDR, and in 1987 was elected to the district board at Berlin.
In the general election of March 1990, the only free elections of East Germany, she was elected into the People's Chamber, which on 5 April elected her its President. As parliament also abolished the State Council, she also exercised the duties of head of state until the GDR joined the Federal Republic of Germany.
After German reunification on 3 October 1990, she became a member of the Bundestag and, as other leading members of the last GDR government, was also appointed to the Federal Minister for Special Affairs in Chancellor Helmut Kohl's cabinet. After the 1990 election, she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Federal Minister for Health on 18 January 1991. Following her party's defeat in the 1998 election, she departed from the government on 26 October 1998 but remained in the Bundestag until 2002.
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl is married and has two children. She is a Protestant.[1]
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| Preceded by Günther Maleuda |
President of the People's Chamber (as such head of state of the German Democratic Republic) 5 April - 2 October 1990 |
Succeeded by Office abolished |
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