Hans-Jürgen Hahn

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Hans-Jürgen Hahn (1990)

Hans-Jürgen Hahn (born August 12, 1942 in Dresden ) is a German doctor who made a name for himself above all in the field of diabetology . Since 1975 he has been one of the formative physicians at the Central Institute for Diabetes Gerhard Katsch in Karlsburg . He also taught at times at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald . Hahn was politically committed to the PDS at the time of political change in the GDR , where he represented it as a member of the last parliament of the GDR after the Volkskammer elections in 1990 . As a result, Hahn became involved in regional politics for the successor party Die Linke .

Life

Hans-Jürgen Hahn was born in Dresden on August 12, 1942. After the war he grew up in the Ore Mountains, where he attended St. Anne's elementary school from 1948 to 1956 and then attended the “Johannes R. Becher” high school in Annaberg-Buchholz until 1960 , which he left when he took his Abitur. In the same year Hahn also joined the SED . Then Hahn first worked as an auxiliary nurse in county nursing home "Otto-Book joke" in Annaberg-Buchholz, before admission to the 1961 study of medicine at the University of Greifswald received (EMAU), which he in 1967 with the receipt of approval finished. At the same time he was awarded a doctorate at the Medical Faculty of EMAU. med. PhD. At the end of the course Hahn received 1966 Karl-Marx-scholarship , which for outstanding performances and unique achievements in the appropriation of Marxism-Leninism was awarded and in its application in professional studies .

When Hahn moved to the Central Institute for Diabetes (ZID) " Gerhardt Katsch " in Karlsburg after completing his studies, to begin a specialist training in pathological physiology, he was able to study visits to Warsaw at the Institute for Histology of the Medical Academy in Moscow at the Institute of Biochemistry at the Medical Academy of the USSR, in Berlin at the Institute of Physiological Biochemistry at the Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University (HUB) and in Jena at the Department of pathophysiology at the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University graduate. He was able to complete this training in 1972 with recognition as a specialist in "Pathological Physiology". Even during this training Hahn began to get involved in diabetes research nationwide. From 1969 to 1977 he was secretary of the "Diabetes" section in the Society for Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases of the GDR. As a result, the ZID in Karlsburg was to become Hahn's future private and professional center of life. From 1972 to 1974 he worked as a research assistant in the pathobiochemistry working group in the experimental area at the ZID, during which time he sat in 1973 at the Institute for Histology at the Medical Faculty of the Swedish University of Umeå . This activity ended with the appointment as senior physician. In 1975 Hahn was then appointed head of the Department of Cell Physiology at the Experimental Section of the ZID, which he held until 1990. In 1976 he added the leadership of the prognostic working group of the research project "Diabetes mellitus and lipid metabolism disorders", which he carried out until 1986 and then until 1990 as a member of the project management. His work was interrupted by working stays at the Department of Medical Cell Biology at Uppsala University between 1977 and 1978, before which he received his doctorate in 1977. med. habil. was habilitated at the medical faculty of EMAU, and a work stay at the Department of Pathology at Washington University St. Louis in 1982 and 1983. In addition, from 1978, he worked as a scientific advisor to the journal "Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology", Hahn exercised until 1991. Before his stay in the USA, Hahn received his teaching qualification (Facultas Docendi) for the subject “Pathological Biochemistry” from the Medical Faculty of the EMAU in 1982 EMAU exercised. As part of his teaching activities, Hahn sat for the first time in 1987 at the Institute for Pathology at the Free University in what was then West Berlin, followed by further stays at the Institute for Immunology at the same university in connection with the implementation of a joint project run by the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation based in New York funded project. In 1988, the now internationally recognized expert was elected to the board of the European Society for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), where he remained until 1992.

During the period of political change in the GDR, Hahn came into the focus of his party and its successor, the PDS, because it needed new, unused faces for the Volkskammer election on March 18, 1990. The internationally renowned doctor, who had not appeared politically until then, accepted and then ran in the Rostock electoral district (13) on the list for the PDS for the election of the last parliament of the GDR. In this electoral district the PDS achieved 5 places and Hahn was a member of the last people's chamber as a PDS deputy. However, he resigned this mandate on August 8, 1990, and was succeeded by Hartmut Junghanns. Hahn had meanwhile been appointed director of the experimental area of ​​the ZID, which ended his national political commitment. In this role he worked as a project manager for various scientific projects until this area was completed in December 1996. In addition, Hahn worked from 1992 to 1995 as a scientific advisor to Sandoz AG in Basel (Switzerland) and a contractor for various industrial research projects, while from 1994 to 1995 he taught as a visiting professor at the Institute for Experimental Medicine and Endocrinology (LEGENDO) at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. After the termination of his work area at the ZID, Hahn was initially unemployed until he worked in various companies in Rostock and Greifswald as a senior employee and project manager in the field of medical research and trading in medical equipment from 1998 to 2006. Hahn then retired. Now he began to get involved in party politics again. In 2009 he ran for the party Die Linke in the local elections for the district council of the Ostvorpommern district and was a member until 2011. In this function he was a member of the supervisory board of the supply and disposal company for the district of Ostvorpommern mbH and was deputy chairman of the district committee for social affairs and health.

Scientific work

Hahn was involved in 315 scientific publications and book contributions as well as two GDR patents. He supervised 13 theses at EMAU and HUB as well as 15 doctorates at various EMAU faculties . He wrote numerous publications together with Tibor Diamantstein .

Honors

Hahn did not appear in party politics in the GDR, so that nothing is known about the usual state awards. However, his medical work has been recognized several times.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of May 5, 1953, page 1
  2. ↑ List of publications. PUBMED, accessed August 5, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, professor at EMAU
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden