Christoph Staewen

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Christoph Staewen (* July 24, 1926 ; † 2002 ) was a German doctor for internal medicine , psychiatry , neurology and psychotherapy and a writer .

Life

Christoph Staewen was the son of Werner Staewen and Gertrud Staewen , b. Ordemann (1894-1987). His mother was the sister of Hilda Heinemann and therefore sister-in-law of Gustav Heinemann .

After participating in the war and being a prisoner of war, Staewen studied medicine in Freiburg and Mainz and received his doctorate in Mainz in 1951. In 1952 and 1953 Staewen was temporarily involved in politics. He ran for the All-German People's Party (GVP) in the federal election in 1953. In contrast to his fellow campaigner Erhard Eppler , he turned his back on politics after the failure of the GVP and devoted himself to his profession as a doctor. Staewen worked in the following years as a specialist in psychiatry. With his boss Hans Ruffin he was u. a. active as a reviewer in the Pommerenke process.

In 1964 Staewen went on a study trip to the Tibesti Mountains in Chad with Friderun Schönberg . In the following years he worked as a general practitioner in Niger , Congo and Chad. On behalf of the Development Aid Ministry under Minister Erhard Eppler , Staewen was to set up an infirmary in the Tibesti Mountains in the town of Bardaï in the early 1970s . In 1974 he was there together with the French archaeologist Francoise Claustre and the French aid workers taken Marc Combe hostage. At that time, a rebel group led by Hissène Habré attacked the city of Bardaï, a small town with 1,500 inhabitants in northwestern Chad. Several people were killed in this action, which attracted international attention. a. also Staewen's wife at the time, Elfriede.

Publications

  • The Importance of Aggressive Crimes in a Insane Psychopath. Dissertation, Mainz 1951.
  • A trip to Tibesti . Verlag G. Richter, 1st edition 2005, ISBN 3-00-015063-3 (travel report from spring 1964).
  • with Friderun Schönberg: Ifa, the word of the gods. Oracle texts of the Yoruba in Nigeria. 1981, ISBN 3-515-03604-0 .
  • with Gabriele Richter and Rupert Neudeck: Working with Africans. Cultural and psychological conditions. decora-Verlag; 2009 (new edition), ISBN 978-3-941115-00-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Staewen, Christoph, Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Saalfeld to Szyszka] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 1206 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 798 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  2. ↑ A man with good connections. In: Stern . No. 27, 1974, p. 47 (June 27, 1974).
  3. ↑ Pommerenke condemned. In: Badische Zeitung . October 26, 1960. Online at badische-zeitung.de.
  4. ↑ Don't shoot, I'm the doc. In: Stern . No. 27, 1974, pp. 42-47 and 96-97 (June 27, 1974).
  5. ↑ Questioning concession from Bonn (PDF; 12.8 MB). In: The Ostpreußenblatt . Volume 25, Episode 27, July 6th 1974, p. 5.
  6. ^ German rebel radio . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1974, p. 16-17 ( Online - June 17, 1974 ).
  7. ↑ Make you cry. A French archaeologist is threatened with shooting in Africa because Paris was reluctant to pay the ransom for reasons of state . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1975, p. 96-98 ( online - 15 September 1975 ).
personal data
SURNAME Staewen, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1926
DATE OF DEATH 2002