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                                                    1967
                                                
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                    He worked as a doctor and writer. He was a member of the party SPD and and supported politically persecuted people during the Nazi regime. He was head of the Gera municipal hospital. As he got into trouble with the Soviet administration in 1949, he moved to Hamburg.