Sabine Bergmann-Pohl

Sabine Bergmann-Pohl
Bundesministerin a. D.
Bergmann-Pohl in 1990
Head of state of the
German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
Interim
In office
5 April 1990 – 3 October 1990
Minister-PresidentHans Modrow
Lothar de Maizière
Preceded byManfred Gerlach (as Chairman of the State Council)
Succeeded byRichard von Weizsäcker (as President of Germany)
President of the Volkskammer
In office
5 April 1990 – 2 October 1990
Deputy
Preceded byGünther Maleuda
Succeeded byRita Süssmuth (as President of the Bundestag)
Minister for Special Affairs
In office
3 October 1990 – 18 January 1991
ChancellorHelmut Kohl
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Parliamentary State Secretary
in the Ministry of Health
In office
18 January 1991 – 26 October 1998
ChancellorHelmut Kohl
MinisterGerda Hasselfeldt
Horst Seehofer
Preceded byAnton Pfeifer
Succeeded byChrista Nickels
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the Bundestag
for Berlin
(Volkskammer; 1990)
In office
3 October 1990 – 17 October 2002
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded bymulti-member district
Member of the Volkskammer
for East Berlin
In office
5 April 1990 – 2 October 1990
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Sabine Schulz

(1946-04-20) 20 April 1946 (age 78)
Eisenach, Thuringia, Soviet occupation zone, Allied-occupied Germany (now Germany)
Political partyChristian Democratic Union (1990–)
Other political
affiliations
Christian Democratic Union (East) (1981–1990)
Spouses
Ulrich Pohl
(m. 1972⁠–⁠1979)
Jürgen Bergmann
(m. 1990)
Children2
ResidenceBerlin
Alma materHumboldt University of Berlin (Dr. med.)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Physician
  • nonprofit CEO

Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (née Schulz; German: [zaˈbiːnə ˈbɛʁkman poːl]; born 20 April 1946) is a German doctor and politician. A member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), she was president of the People's Chamber of East Germany from April to October 1990. During this time, she was also the interim head of state of East Germany, holding both posts until the state's merger into West Germany in October. She was the youngest, only female and the last head of state of East Germany. After the reunification of Germany, she served in the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, first as Minister for Special Affairs, one of five appointed in 1991 to provide representation for the last East German government in the Kohl cabinet, then as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Health for the remainder of Chancellor Kohl's time in office.[1]

  1. ^ Torild Skard (2014) "Sabine Bergmann-Pohl" in Women of Power – Half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide, Bristol: Policy Press, ISBN 978-1-44731-578-0