Helmut Lehmann

Helmut Erich Johannes Lehmann (1 December 1882 – 9 February 1959) was a German politician (SPD/SED).

Life Helmut Lehmann was born in Berlin. His father was a writer. He attended school in Strasbourg and Berlin and then between 1897 ad 1899, undertook an apprenticeship in carpentry at Schöneiche, a small town just outside Berlin on its eastern side. Between 1900 and 1903 he was employed first as an assistant in a lawyer's office and then with a health insurance organisation (Krankenkasse). In 1900 he joined the national office workers' trades union ("Zentralverband der Büroangestellten") and from then till 1900 was also working as a trades union official at the union's Berlin office. He also held senior positions in the Trades Union Federation.

After his death various East German entities were renamed in his honour including a Trades Union holiday village at Johanngeorgenstadt. In 1982 his face appeared on a postage stamp.

Output (as an example) From Der sozialistische Arzt: Reform der Reichsversicherungsordnung Main themes of Helmut Lehmann's address to the Fourth Breslau Health Insurance Conference ("Leitsätze des Referenten Helmut Lehmann auf dem Breslauer Krankenkassentag. IV")