Lutz Henske used to live in Leipzig. He went through the government-mandated way of socialism, went to school and received his diploma. His father was technical director of the Main Department of Transportation of Leipzig and the horticultural exhibition in Leipzig. The tranquil childhood and youth of the student was suddenly brought to an end, because his father was accused by his secretary and his driver of espionage and sentenced to six years in prison. The process and the verdict were heard Henske later declared invalid. Lutz Henske was 16 years old. For the family is the conviction of the father was a physical, mental and physical disaster, he says. The teenager then went to high school and was studying medicine as a goal.
by the arrest and conviction Lutz Henske his father was initially refused the study. A neighbor, a Dean at the Leipzig Humboldt University, made sure that the young man after a two-year probation period to study medicine at Humboldt University of Leipzig, where was also approved, subject to conditions. He had to take over cleaning in a laboratory. "During my studies, I have to protest against the system partied in our cottage, with Western music, campfires and friends," the doctor says, looking back. He knew that even Stasi members were among the guests.
Henske was one of the few doctors, whose work drew the interest of the East German industry in itself. His doctoral thesis entitled "The scientific use of drugs, especially placebos" he could then sell to five firms. After graduation, he started a job at the Children's Hospital in Borna. Of course, this was a chicane. Henske: "For whoever wanted to Borna?" Near Party in Leipzig graduates had received their first shots and Lutz Henske made the weekend the "plant doctor" on the site of the coal power plant, "Thierbach.
An acquaintance, a system-critical and well-known professor in Leipzig was looking for his children a surgery intern. Lutz Henske applied for this job, and the Leipzig professor found a way that it the young assistant doctor again failed to get to Leipzig. The young doctor was able to finish his medical training here in the field of pediatrics. Through the health system in the GDR, the doctor reported talking to the GT: ".. The health system was directed by the state the first place were the budget figures and then just the patient, if you were sick, it could have nothing to do with the environment." In the former GDR have one "official kids' treated with drugs from the" Western medicine "and the general population had to be content with the less active agents from the Eastern pharmaceutical industry.
Henske married in 1977 and the couple had a son. The father of the doctor went to his release from prison to West Germany.
1983, then offered the opportunity for Lutz Henske, his father for the 76th Birthday visit. The chance to escape and was was used. Lutz Henske had then hoped to bring about family reunification with his family in the West. But it should happen quite differently. His wife meanwhile had a relationship with a fellow gynecologists started. This, according Henske a non-party chief physician and informant of the Stasi, moved shortly after his escape, one with his wife.
"So I had this year, my family, my home, my fortune, my friends, everything lost," he sums up this time. But the State had not let up. Impunity, amnesty and all kinds of amenities were offered to him if he would come back to East Germany. "But on this trade, I did not want to get involved," said Henske. He later married his current wife and remained in the West. "It was just carved the urge to get out of the system. Although I was diligent and well known, but was in my file in stone, political opponents'," he concludes.
In Rodenbach he could then take a pediatrician practice, and prepared himself for his final "medical talk" before a medical review panel. In retrospect, it was the practice in a stroke of luck Rodenbach proved. He was able to settle in well and quickly into Western society and also found the necessary support in practice.
A west-regulation allowed out of his son. The boy flew at the age of seven and eight years of monthly Leipzig with Lufthansa to Frankfurt, and Lutz Henske it could then pick it up there. "Sunday afternoon I saw him again brought back," he recalls of that time. His first wife later married the party-affiliated gynecologist.
from the opening of the Wall Lutz Henske has only learned a day later. He learned the event of his employees. He closed his practice to this day, "because of normal work that day was to think no more. "
Later, he received access to his Stasi files. Here he learned that were recognized in the family and among friends informative employees of the Stasi on him, including very good friends with a Western setting. Two committed them loudly . Henske later suicide, even after his escape, he was observed by the Stasi, the GP
source. Gelnhaeuser-tageblatt.de
by the arrest and conviction Lutz Henske his father was initially refused the study. A neighbor, a Dean at the Leipzig Humboldt University, made sure that the young man after a two-year probation period to study medicine at Humboldt University of Leipzig, where was also approved, subject to conditions. He had to take over cleaning in a laboratory. "During my studies, I have to protest against the system partied in our cottage, with Western music, campfires and friends," the doctor says, looking back. He knew that even Stasi members were among the guests.
Henske was one of the few doctors, whose work drew the interest of the East German industry in itself. His doctoral thesis entitled "The scientific use of drugs, especially placebos" he could then sell to five firms. After graduation, he started a job at the Children's Hospital in Borna. Of course, this was a chicane. Henske: "For whoever wanted to Borna?" Near Party in Leipzig graduates had received their first shots and Lutz Henske made the weekend the "plant doctor" on the site of the coal power plant, "Thierbach.
An acquaintance, a system-critical and well-known professor in Leipzig was looking for his children a surgery intern. Lutz Henske applied for this job, and the Leipzig professor found a way that it the young assistant doctor again failed to get to Leipzig. The young doctor was able to finish his medical training here in the field of pediatrics. Through the health system in the GDR, the doctor reported talking to the GT: ".. The health system was directed by the state the first place were the budget figures and then just the patient, if you were sick, it could have nothing to do with the environment." In the former GDR have one "official kids' treated with drugs from the" Western medicine "and the general population had to be content with the less active agents from the Eastern pharmaceutical industry.
Henske married in 1977 and the couple had a son. The father of the doctor went to his release from prison to West Germany.
1983, then offered the opportunity for Lutz Henske, his father for the 76th Birthday visit. The chance to escape and was was used. Lutz Henske had then hoped to bring about family reunification with his family in the West. But it should happen quite differently. His wife meanwhile had a relationship with a fellow gynecologists started. This, according Henske a non-party chief physician and informant of the Stasi, moved shortly after his escape, one with his wife.
"So I had this year, my family, my home, my fortune, my friends, everything lost," he sums up this time. But the State had not let up. Impunity, amnesty and all kinds of amenities were offered to him if he would come back to East Germany. "But on this trade, I did not want to get involved," said Henske. He later married his current wife and remained in the West. "It was just carved the urge to get out of the system. Although I was diligent and well known, but was in my file in stone, political opponents'," he concludes.
In Rodenbach he could then take a pediatrician practice, and prepared himself for his final "medical talk" before a medical review panel. In retrospect, it was the practice in a stroke of luck Rodenbach proved. He was able to settle in well and quickly into Western society and also found the necessary support in practice.
A west-regulation allowed out of his son. The boy flew at the age of seven and eight years of monthly Leipzig with Lufthansa to Frankfurt, and Lutz Henske it could then pick it up there. "Sunday afternoon I saw him again brought back," he recalls of that time. His first wife later married the party-affiliated gynecologist.
from the opening of the Wall Lutz Henske has only learned a day later. He learned the event of his employees. He closed his practice to this day, "because of normal work that day was to think no more. "
Later, he received access to his Stasi files. Here he learned that were recognized in the family and among friends informative employees of the Stasi on him, including very good friends with a Western setting. Two committed them loudly . Henske later suicide, even after his escape, he was observed by the Stasi, the GP
source. Gelnhaeuser-tageblatt.de
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