Former Minister of Labor Norbert Blüm (CDU) had been "permanently paralyzed" since last year with blood poisoning. Now he has passed away.
- Norbert Blüm (CDU) was paralyzed from the shoulders down.
- The former Minister of Labor has been struggling with it since last year.
- Now the former Minister of Labor and Social Affairs has passed away at the age of 84.
April 24 update : Sad certainty: Norbert Blüm is dead, the former Minister of Labor and Social Affairs died at the age of 84. The son of the CDU politician said on Friday of the German Press Agency in Bonn. You can find more information here.
Tragedy about Norbert Blüm: Paralyzed from the shoulders downwards - "Like a puppet"
First report from March 11 : Munich - Former Labor Minister Norbert Blüm * (CDU) has been paralyzed from the shoulders downwards since last year . In a guest post for the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit", Blüm wrote in advance on Wednesday: "I am still not taking the judgment as seriously as I should, because my attitude towards life does not accept being paralyzed in the long term ."
Norbert Blüm: "I feel like a puppet that they have pulled the strings"
According to “Zeit”, Blüm had fallen into a coma after a sepsis and has not been able to move his arms or legs since. The 84-year-old left the hospital after spending months in the past week. "I feel like a puppet that they have pulled the strings so that their parts dangle incoherently in the air," wrote Blüm in the article that he dictated to his wife according to "Zeit".
He lived an intense public life - "at times as a political boxer," continued Blüm. Looking back in the wheelchair horizon is different than in the conventional panoramic view. "I judge some events in my life differently than before, and the wheelchair forms the watershed." He has now fled into the arms of the family again. "I'm home."
Blüm was a member of the German Bundestag from 1972 to 1981 and from 1983 to 2002. Born in Rüsselsheim, who currently lives in Bonn with his wife, was in the cabinets of Helmut Kohls * Minister for Labor and Social Order for 16 years and was thus extensively involved in the political events of the Union. Currently, many of the CDU / CSU are concerned with the refugee situation at the EU's external borders *, of which Chancellor Angela Merkel * is "very annoyed". Norbert Blüm has two daughters.
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