Else Ackermann was a German physician and pharmacologist who became an East German politician.
25 Facts About Else Ackermann
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Else Ackermann's father was a railway official: her mother was a nurse.
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Else Ackermann passed her secondary school final exams at the "Einstein Upper School" in the Berlin suburb of Neuenhagen in 1952 which opened the way to a university-level education.
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Else Ackermann passed her state medical exams in 1957 and received her doctorate in medicine in 1958.
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Else Ackermann was able to combine the research work at the Cancer Research Institute with a lectureship contract at the Charite.
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In 1985 Else Ackermann became a member of the East German version of the Christian Democratic Union.
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In 1986 Else Ackermann became the chairwoman for the local Christian Democratic Union of Germany in Neuenhagen, her home town.
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In June 1988, as chair of the Neuenhagen local party, Else Ackermann sent an internal letter to Gerald Gotting, the Christian Democratic Union party national chairman in Berlin.
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Else Ackermann had to reckon with the constant possibility that her car would be tampered with overnight.
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Else Ackermann did not withdraw from politics and her actions were indeed part of a wider series of changes, although it was hard to anticipate exactly where those changes were leading.
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In January 1990 Else Ackermann found herself invited to resume her teaching at the Charite where, in August 1991, she took over as acting director of the Pharmacology-Toxicology Institute.
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In Neuenhagen, newly elected to the local council, Else Ackermann participated in local round table negotiations, as the politically engaged struggled to find a path ahead.
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Else Ackermann stood for election as a Christian Democratic Union candidate and was elected, representing the Frankfurt electoral district in the National Parliament.
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Those making the transfer, which included Elise Else Ackermann, were elected by fellow members.
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Else Ackermann remained a Bundestag member until the general election which took place in December 1990.
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Else Ackermann found herself back in the Bundestag in October 1991 following the resignation from the assembly of Lothar de Maiziere, who had served as East Germany's last prime minister during the summer of the previous year.
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Else Ackermann was selected to take on her former colleague's Brandenburg seat.
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Else Ackermann now remained a member till the 1994 election after which she withdrew from national politics, though she remained politically active in her own region.
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Else Ackermann returned to the Charite, was appointed a director in 1994, and remained engaged as a teacher at the medical faculty's Institute for Clinical Pharmacology till her retirement in 1998.
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Else Ackermann had remained a member of the local council in Neuenhagen since 1989, and in 1996 she was elected chair of the Christian Democratic Union party group on the council.
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Else Ackermann explained the move by criticising the misogynistic attitude of her replacement as Christian Democratic Union group leader on the council, Alfred Kuck, and some of his male colleagues.
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Meanwhile, the motion submitted by the Neuenhagen party to have Else Ackermann excluded from the Christian Democratic Union was rejected by the party state leadership for Brandenburg.
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Else Ackermann was handed a reprimand for conduct damaging to the party and remained a Christian Democratic Union of Germany member.
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In 2014 Else Ackermann became the first recipient of the Wilhelm Wolf prize.
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Else Ackermann was killed in a motor accident in 1948, under circumstances that were never clearly explained during the period when Brandenburg was part of the Soviet occupation zone and the authorities were implementing a carefully crafted plan to impose one- party rule.