Paul Piechowski
Paul Felix Piechowski was a Lutheran theologian and physician.Biography
Piechowski was born in Turoscheln, East Prussia, he studied Lutheran theology and Philosophy at the University of Königsberg. In 1916 he worked as a Pastor in Königsberg and from 1917 to 1919 as a military chaplain. In 1919 he joined the "religious-socialist movement" and started to work as a Pastor in Berlin-Neukölln until 1928, from 1928 until 1934 in Berlin-Britz.
In 1924 he became the Chairman of the Union of Socialist theologians. Piechowski started to study medicine in 1932, was dismissed from his position as a Pastor in 1934 and worked as a physician. After World War II he practised in Babelsberg and became a medical director at the German Central Administration of the Soviet occupation zone. From 1946 to 1953 Piechowski was a member of the medical branch of the municipal administration of Berlin. Until 1961 he practised as a physician in Berlin-Moabit.
Piechowski was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and died in Bad Godesberg.
