Hans-Joachim Woitowitz

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Hans-Joachim Woitowitz (born October 18, 1935 in Allenstein ) is a German occupational medicine specialist , social medicine specialist and university professor .

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Hans-Joachim Woitowitz was born in Allenstein in East Prussia in 1935, the second of four children of the independent merchants Hermann and Hildegard Woitowitz. After the escape the family lived first in Saxony, then in Westphalia. Woitowitz passed his Abitur exam in 1955 at the Friedrich von Bodelschwingh School in Bethel near Bielefeld. He then studied medicine in Marburg and Cologne, where he successfully passed his state examination in 1960. A year later he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. His dissertation is entitled “On optical phenomena in cyclothymic depression”.

He completed his time as a medical assistant at the University of Cologne Clinic . After receiving his medical license in 1963, he began further training in internal medicine with Hugo Wilhelm Knipping and Rudolf Gross in the local medical clinic . In 1965 he followed Helmut Valentin , his scientific teacher, to the newly founded Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . As a senior assistant, he was responsible for the Polyclinic for Occupational Diseases . In 1969 he acquired the specialist certification for internal medicine as well as the additional designation of occupational medicine.

In 1971 he completed his habilitation and became a private lecturer in the two subjects of occupational medicine and social medicine. He was awarded the EW Baader Prize for his habilitation in “Occupational Health and Epidemiological Studies on Immediate Health Risks from Asbestos ”. In 1973 he was offered a full professor of Occupational Medicine, later Professor of Occupational and Social Medicine at the Center for Ecology of the Hospital of the University of Giessen . In 1974 he took over the management of the institute and the polyclinic for occupational and social medicine , which he held until his retirement in 2004.

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  • Klaus Rödelsperger, Hans-Joachim Woitowitz: Asbestos dust hazard in brake services. Epidemiological studies in occupational medicine of the consequences of inhalation of asbestos in employees in brake services after many years of exposure (= series of publications by the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, No. 631). Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Bremerhaven 1991, ISBN 3-89429-076-5 .
  • Hans-Joachim Woitowitz: Risk and influencing factors of diffuse malignant mesothelioma (DMM) (= publication series of the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. No. 698). Verlag für Neue Wissenschaft, Bremerhaven 1994, ISBN 3-89429-317-9 .
  • Silvia Schön , Hans-Joachim Woitowitz: We are suing. Asbestos and its victims. Kellner, Bremen / Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-95651-002-1 .

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SURNAME Woitowitz, Hans-Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woitowitz, H.-J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German occupational and social medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Allenstein