Fikentscher was born in Probsthain , a village in Lower Silesia roughly 90 km ( 55 miles ) west of Breslau . When he was 4 war ended , in May 1945 , and frontier changes mandated by the victorious powers involved the transfer of Silesia from Germany to Poland . Implementation of the changes was accompanied by a major programme of ethnic cleansing : Fikentscher 's family was relocated to Zwickau where he grew up . He passed his School Finals exam ( Abitur ) in 1959 and then transferred to the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg where he studied between 1961 and 1967 , the year in which he qualified as a medical doctor . He then trained for a specialty in Otorhinolaryngology ( ear , nose and throat medicine ) , qualifying in 1972 . A higher habilitation degree followed in 1974 . Between 1972 and 1981 he worked as an Otorhinolaryngologist , employed as a senior doctor ( '' " Oberarzt " '' ) till 1985 at the Halle University Clinic . Between 1985 and 1990 he worked as a university lecturer in his speciality at Halle . Prior to 1989 Fikentscher was not politically active
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Rüdiger Fikentscher