Dr. Wolff Geisler, an expert on a mission in South Africa for a second job

Dr. Wolff Geisler, Cologne-Germany

Everything is quite modest in the house of Dr. med. Wolff Geisler. At 45, a general practitioner usually has a slightly different ambiance than these two rooms in Bonn’s oldest shared flat, located in a small family home with a large garden.

A modest bed; decrepit armchairs; brightly colored cabinets and shelves, bulging with files, books, magazines. They symbolize the second job of Doctor Geisler: the expert for the economic and military relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and South Africa.

From international military magazines to brochures of black African resistance movements, from confidential papers from the boardrooms of German companies to official government documents, you’ll find everything here.

Only private frills one looks in vain. Wolff Geisler did not even bring it to a decent stereo in the 15 years that he now lives here. Since the beginning of the year, he has been building his own practice in Cologne-Wahn. Before that, he has two days a week at a country doctor nearby Bonn helped out to secure his subsistence level.

For the rest of his time, he devoted only one major topic: southern Africa. He had to look for his own practice because the country doctor had announced the comfortable help contract last year. His goal: to bring the practice to fruition as fast as possible, to hire an assistant soon – so that time is left for the political.

He began in 1971, as a young medical assistant and, incidentally, managing director of the “German Committee for Angola, Guinea Bissau, and Mozambique.” He argued for the independence of these African territories from the Portuguese colonial ruler.

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