Jürgen Kleditzsch

Jürgen Kleditzsch (born 26 January 1944) is a German physician and former minister for the East German Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

He served as the GDR's last Minister of Health in the cabinet of Lothar de Maizière. He also worked as a specialist physician in the Neu-Ulm district of Gerlenhofen and now runs a private orthopedic practice in a Bad Wörishofen hotel.

Life and career Early career Kleditzsch completed his high school diploma (Abitur) in 1962 and subsequently undertook a one-year nursing internship at the Sebnitz District Hospital. From 1963 to 1969, he studied medicine at Karl Marx University in Leipzig. After earning his doctorate in medicine, he trained as a specialist in physiotherapy from 1969 to 1974 at the Occupational Health Service at uranium mining company SDAG Wismut and the Kneipp Health Resort in Berggießhübel. He completed his training as a specialist in physiotherapy in 1974. Three years later, he was recognized as a specialist in orthopedics.

From 1974 to 1989, he worked at the Medical Academy of Dresden, initially as the head of the Physiotherapy Department at the Orthopedic Clinic, and in 1978, he was appointed senior physician of the clinic. In 1985, he took on a teaching position in physiotherapy at the Medical Academy of Dresden and was appointed associate professor in 1987.

Bloc party politician Kleditzsch joined the East German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a bloc party beholden to the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED), in 1977. From August 1990, he also served as acting Minister for Labor and Social Affairs in the aftermath of the SPD and their ministers leaving the coalition government.

Reunified Germany Kleditzsch was one of 144 Volkskammer members co-opted to the Bundestag following German reunification on 3 October 1990. He remained a member of the Bundestag until the end of the 11th legislative period in December 1990, retiring from politics. and now runs a private orthopedic practice in a Bad Wörishofen hotel.