Heinrich Schoeneich

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Heinrich Johannes Schoeneich (born January 2, 1948 in Datteln , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German specialist in surgery, plastic and aesthetic surgery, founder and director of the Munich / Interplast-Germany e. V., photographer and humanitarian activist.

Heinrich Schoeneich, 2011

Live and act

Schoeneich grew up in a medical family that shaped him ethically and humanitarian. His father, the internist Paul Schoeneich, ran a general practitioner practice in Gelsenkirchen-Erle. From 1965 to 1967 he attended the boarding school of the Landschulheims Schloss Heesen near Hamm, which was founded in 1957 by the reform pedagogue Arthur Theodor Gruelich . From 1968 he studied general medicine in Cologne and graduated in 1974 with the state examination. He completed his internship between 1972 and 1974 in Peru, Japan and the USA, among others.

His key professional experience was a stay in the Peruvian Andean village of Coina. Here he worked in 1975 in the Andino del Alto Chicama Hospital, a small provincial hospital that the Hamburg surgeon, idealist and pioneer Oswald (o) Kaufmann had built in 1959. In four months as a so-called barefoot doctor he learned more from the locals than he could have helped them. Instead of working as a doctor in development services, he therefore decided to continue training as a plastic-reconstructive surgeon. The Plastic Surgery , seemed the most appropriate discipline to help with simple means in medically underserved countries.

In the same year he began training as a specialist in general surgery with Georg Maurer and Rolf-Rüdiger Siebert and as a specialist in plastic surgery with Ursula Schmidt-Tintemann and Edgar Biemer at the Rechts der Isar Clinic in Munich (1975–1986). He received his doctorate in 1977. From 1980 onwards, he traveled on a voluntary basis to so-called developing countries and crisis areas in (Southeast) Asia, Latin America and Africa in order to operate on socially disadvantaged people, especially children and young people. In 1984 Schoeneich joined the aid organization Interplast-Germany e. V. at. In 1990 he opened a practice clinic for plastic and aesthetic surgery in Munich, which he operated until spring 2017. In 1994 he founded the Interplast Munich section, as its board member he has organized and carried out 3-4 humanitarian operations a year since then. Since it was founded in 2004, he has headed the Interplast Foundation for Humanitarian Plastic Surgery together with André Borsche and Hein Stahl to promote longer-term projects.

Since 2012, at the invitation of nuclear medicine specialist Markus Schwaiger , he has been lecturing at the Technical University of Munich on medical and ethical aspects of his humanitarian work. The medical faculty has meanwhile established the subject as an optional course.

Representing Interplast-Germany e. V. and in recognition of his commitment in Afghanistan, he accepted the charity Bambi from the Hubert Burda Media Group in 2001 . In 2003 the documentary “ Under the Skin - The Second Life of Dr. Schoeneich ”by the director Andrea Schramm . In 2006 he received the Federal Cross of Merit for his humanitarian achievements .

He is married to Sima Schoeneich from Iran. She is an operating room nurse and also works as a team coach and interpreter on joint missions. You have two children. Katharina Schoeneich is an investment manager. She works on a voluntary basis for Interplast Munich in the areas of logistics and bookkeeping. Moritz Schoeneich is a specialist in plastic and aesthetic surgery. Both take part in humanitarian missions of the Munich / Interplast-Germany e. V. part.

First war surgery mission - Thailand (1980)

In the spring of 1980 Schoeneich assisted for six weeks in war surgery operations in the refugee camps Non (g) Mak Mun and Khao-I-Dang in the Thai border area with Cambodia . He was part of a medical team from Immediate Aid e. V., which three Munich private individuals founded at the end of 1979 after the plight of the Cambodian refugees became known . Initially, in cooperation with Rupert Neudeck Committee A ship for Vietnam , 1979-1981 she was in his own words made the first local organization, medical aid to a greater extent during the so-called. Emergency Period.

In February 1980 the work of the emergency aid e. V. and the committee A ship for Vietnam in the criticism of the German Red Cross . The then General Secretary of the DRK, Hans-Jürgen Schillig, accused them of “unqualified amateur helper” and cited their representatives in March 1980 before the Bundestag subcommittee on humanitarian aid. The committee found, however, that the federal government's funding for the activities of the two initiatives was “excellently invested”.

In the Deutsches Ärzteblatt , Schoeneich and three colleagues reported on the extent of the violence in the camps, on attacks by the military and evacuations. In addition to the consequences of severe malnutrition, they treated and documented a large number of infectious diseases in stages that medical professionals in Europe rarely saw. The trauma surgeon Norbert Moos described the emotional stress on the medical assistants in his mission diary from June 1980 in Die ZEIT. In view of the incessant, man-made suffering, he spoke of “impotent anger, infinite sadness” and a pain for which he “hardly had any psychological processing pattern”. Schoeneich also described his assignment as a traumatizing, emotional borderline experience.

War Surgical Missions - Pakistan | Afghanistan (1991-2004)

Following a call to the European Union, flew Schoeneich 1991 after Peshawar in the Pakistani-Afghan border region to where the accident surgeon Ortwin yoke , Interplast-time associate of the German Afghanistan Committee (DAK), severely injured in the treatment civil war refugees from Afghanistan to support .

Eleven years after the Thai he started these war surgery missions, mentally armed and more experienced. Nevertheless, the sight of the suffering children continued to bother him unabated. Due to poverty and the decades-long war, they were medically insufficiently or not at all cared for. In addition to tumors and congenital malformations, he again operated on patients who suffered from mutilation, gunshot and mine wounds, infected or poorly healed wounds, burn scars that restrict movement and, as an indirect consequence of the war, from polio.

It quickly became clear that the usual turnaround would not be sufficient to absorb the large number of those in need. In this situation, Interplast could no longer manage to leave the severely injured person for treatment in German hospitals, which was still common until then, with costs of DM 5,000 to 100,000 per patient. The Help-Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e. V., the German Afghanistan Committee and Interplast-Germany e. V. therefore jointly launched a project, initially subsidized by the Foreign Office , which was to ensure continuous help on site in a rapid succession of several teams. In the absence of their own premises, one team operated each month for two weeks in two of the city's hospitals selected by Joch. Schoeneich and the Frankfurt Interplast section in particular organized regular missions.

In 1992 the Foreign Office stopped funding on the grounds that it did not "want to subsidize long-term refugees". The Help e. V., who took care of the organization in Germany, and also the German Afghanistan Committee, which until then had taken over the organizational tasks in Peshawar, withdrew from the project. The European Union approved the application for funding, but with a significantly lower budget, so the number of Interplast teams had to be reduced.

Afghanistan

When the mujahideen captured Kabul in 1994, many of those who had fled abroad returned to Afghanistan to rebuild. Those responsible for the Peshawar project also moved their headquarters from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Since the capital Kabul was still considered too unsafe due to ongoing fighting between Ahmad Shah Massoud's troops and the strengthening Taliban militias, they chose Jalalabad, 120 kilometers away, as their new location. Here, Schoeneich, together with the Interplast Frankfurt section and the help of the German Embassy, ​​financed the construction and conversion of a destroyed house into what was then the second Interplast hospital worldwide. It was put into operation under the direction of Joch in September 1995 and has been the only free point of contact for reconstructive surgery in the region throughout its existence.

Taliban regime

In September 1996 the Taliban conquered Jalalabad and Kabul and subjected the whole country to a radical Islamist-fundamentalist dictatorship. While the political situation increasingly deterred foreign aid workers, Interplast teams, again primarily Schoeneich and the Frankfurt section, continued to organize missions in Jalalabad. In total, they carried out around 4,500 operations here. In October 1998 the European Union stopped funding the project because it "does not serve any life-saving measures". With temporary support from the German Foreign Office, the hospital was finally confiscated by the Taliban and the project was forcibly canceled at the end of September 1999.

Chak-e-Wardak

Instead, the Interplast sections in Frankfurt and Munich sent operating teams to the Chak-e-Wardak Hospital of the German-Afghan Committee. The hospital was built immediately after the Soviet occupiers left in 1989 by the Düsseldorf operating room nurse and Afghanistan pioneer Karla Schefter and has been under her management ever since. In the spring of 2001 Schoeneich carried out a first assignment here with his son. In his travel report, he described from the perspective of the guest and helper how the situation had changed under Taliban rule, especially for women and girls, and spoke of his admiration for Schefter's life's work and the internal conflicts that preoccupied him during this time. Using Camus ' terms such as “Sisyphus work” and “struggle against the absurdity of life”, he tried to describe the futility that he felt after ten years of humanitarian work in Afghanistan.

September 11, 2001 and Bambi Awards

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Taliban again moved more into the focus of German reporting and thus also outstanding initiatives and personalities active in Afghanistan. Schefter and Interplast-Germany e. V. received the Charity Bambi of the Hubert Burda Medien Group in 2001 for their long-term medical help in Afghanistan. Schoeneich accepted the award on behalf of Interplast-Germany. Burda explicitly paid tribute to his personal, humanitarian commitment in Afghanistan. The award was presented to him by the actress and doctor Maria Furtwängler on November 15, 2001 in Berlin. The ARD broadcast the award live for the first time.

"War on Terror"

In early October 2001, the US administration under George W. Bush and its allies began a war of retaliation, dubbed Operation Enduring Freedom , against the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda and the Taliban regime that supported it. Since further missions in Afghanistan initially seemed impossible in this situation, Schoeneich's concern was primarily the patients who were waiting there for their follow-up treatment. In an interview with ZEIT on September 27, 2001, he criticized American foreign policy, which in the past had already contributed a great deal to "the fact that after 30 years of war there is not much left to destroy in this country". He described the attacks, from which the Afghan civilian population had to suffer again, as “human catastrophe” and “barbarism against a battered people”.

When the USA and Great Britain attacked Iraq in 2003 because of their alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction, he saw Afghanistan as being further sidelined in global politics and saw little prospect of building a functioning health system. The situation is more unstable than ever due to drug cultivation and arming warlords, and the domestic political power struggle of the tribal cultures cannot be solved with an “imposed, democratic system”, said Schoeneich in a 2003 TV interview with the BR, and added that he too was “helpless and at a loss . "

Due to the security situation, he finally stopped working in Afghanistan in 2004 and relocated his main focus to Burma / Myanmar .

Burma - Republic of the Union of Myanmar (since 1997)

In 1995 Schoeneich made the acquaintance of two Burmese scholarship holders, Paing Soe (Technical University) and Khin Maung Lwin (Ludwig Maximilians University), in Munich . In 1997, through Lwin's mediation, he received approval from the Burmese Ministry of Health for his first operation in what was then the capital, Yangon .

Like Afghanistan with 21 ethnic groups, the multi-ethnic state of Burma / Myanmar, consisting of 135 ethnic groups, is one of the so-called Least Developed Countries , the “least developed countries” in the world. Burma / Myanmar was granted this status by the United Nations in 1987 . When Schoeneich began his missions here in 1997, the general state of health had deteriorated further: 30-40% of the population lived below the poverty line , 40% were denied access to medical care, the child mortality rate was 105 out of 1000; Malaria, drug use and prostitution had all increased dramatically; according to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people infected with HIV was second in all of Asia. Human rights violations against members of so-called ethnic minorities, the restriction of the freedom of the press and the imprisonment of critics of the regime attracted worldwide attention.

In the spring of 1997 the European Union and the USA tightened their economic sanctions . Schoeneich spoke out against the boycotts, which would fail to serve their political purpose and exacerbate the plight of the population. He rejected allegations that he supported the military dictatorship with his operations . The focus of his efforts would be the well-being of the children, who should not be punished for the imbalances in their country. He repeatedly formulated his own ambivalence with regard to the ethical justifiability of aid in this context in reports, interviews and lectures.

Target groups

Of his 21 locations in Burma / Myanmar up to and including 2017, 14 were in the border districts of the so-called ethnic minorities. in the catchment area of ​​armed conflict. The operations in the Thai border region were also aimed at the members of so-called ethnic minorities and civil war refugees from Burma / Myanmar persecuted by the military regime. From 2005 the government authorized him to work regularly in areas of the so-called Golden Triangle . Since 2015 he has intensified his engagement in the politically conflicting region of Rakhine . In Thandwe and Sittwe he had already operated on members of the Rohingya Muslim minority .

Cyclone Nargis

On the night of May 2nd to 3rd, 2008, Schoeneich experienced Cyclone Nargis in Yangon , which is considered to be one of the most momentous tropical cyclones in the history of weather records. In the morning hours the state of emergency was declared, the communication system had collapsed and the airport was locked. Returning the day before from a two-week operation in the interior of the country, he was stuck with his team and medical equipment in the city without being able to help: Like other foreign organizations, the specialists from Interplast were not given a permit for the Irrawaddy Delta, the region most severely affected. “Forced to do nothing” they flew back to Munich three days later, where journalists were already waiting for them at the airport. As a result of the news blackout and the entry ban for international press representatives, Schoeneich was one of the few eyewitnesses who were able to provide the media with first-hand images and information.

“A little helpless and still paralyzed by the impressions of what we experienced, we stood in front of cameras and microphones. What I later saw and heard from us in the print media often had nothing to do with what I experienced in Burma. I found only a few reports objective. Our statements were drastically reduced to a few sentences, to media-effective catchphrases such as military dictatorship, corruption and the unwelcome aid organizations that are not allowed to enter the delta, and a lack of warnings about the disaster. [...] Due to the one-sided reporting focused on the misconduct of the junta, little was donated compared to other disasters. "

- Heinrich Schoeneich, Mission report Interplast-Section Munich, 2008, p. 1 ff.

Together with foundations active in Burma / Myanmar such as the Myanmar Foundation, Stiftunglife and the Amara Health Foundation, which was founded immediately after the cyclone, he carried out public relations work, started appeals for donations and personally brought emergency aid to the crisis region. In April 2009 he initiated the hospital ship project " Swimming Doctors ", which is still active today, together with the Amara Health Foundation and Stiftunglife .

Journalist dispute

On May 31, 2008, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published Alice Schwarzer's article “Renewal from within - Why Burma needs real friends”. In it, she problematized the Western criticism of disaster management by the Burmese military government as being postcolonial and motivated by political interests. Schoeneich, who has been working there unmolested by the military regime for ten years, is one of these “true friends” of Burma and, like the people of Yangon, was warned of the storm in good time.

Matthias Matussek , journalist and then head of the cultural department of the news magazine Der Spiegel, responded on June 1, 2008 with an open letter. Schwarzer's reference to an individual who could move freely in the country was viewed as a trivialization of the reality of all those colleagues who had experienced repression by the junta . Tilman Zülch , General Secretary of the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) and supporter of the boycott measures, also wrote an open letter to Schwarzer on June 2, 2008.

Schoeneich described the "journalists' dispute" over Schwarzer's article in view of the plight in Burma as vain and counterproductive.

Sustainability project

In view of advancing globalization and neoliberal currents, Schoeneich had already spoken out in favor of a system change in humanitarian aid in 2003 and warned against “medical colonialism”. With structurally sustainable measures in the sense of helping people to help themselves , he hoped, among other things, to be able to ensure appropriate post-operative aftercare in the respective country of assignment.

In his focus project Burma / Myanmar, he provided donations and foundation funds for the establishment and expansion of plastic surgery departments, equipment training and operating theater workshops, in addition to providing individual surgical assistance. He organized training grants for Burmese colleagues as well as internships and internships, supported other NGOs in their work on site and inspired Burmese organizations to adapt the Interplast philosophy in their own country.

In 2016, together with fourteen European and Burmese specialists, he evaluated the results of the extracranial treatment of frontoethmoid meningoencephaloceles over a period of fifteen years. The method specially developed for the conditions in economically disadvantaged countries came from Schoeneich's doctoral supervisor Wolfgang Mühlbauer . After joint teaching operations, the interventions had since been performed by Myat Thu, head of the neurosurgery department at Yangon General Hospital. The results of the case study were published in the American Journal of neurosurgery in 2017 .

After 54 operations, Schoeneich celebrated the 20-year commitment of the Interplast-Munich section in Burma / Myanmar in 2017 with 120 German and Burmese friends and colleagues in Bagan .

China (2006)

In 2004, Schoeneich operated on 15-year-old Chinese Xiao Liewen in the team of his former professor Edgar Biemer . The burned right half of her face was reconstructed in several steps. For the first time in medical history , it was possible to preform a nose on the lower abdomen and transplant it into the face. The ProSieben editor Petra Jahn accompanied the work of the Munich doctors with a film crew. The documentary was broadcast on the Galileo program on March 23, 2006 and the audience was very willing to donate. In 2008 and 2013, Galileo reported in a follow-up on Liewen's health and professional development.

During a two-week trip to China by Interplast's Munich and Wiesbaden sections in June 2006, Schoeneich picked up Liewen in Shanghai and carried out a follow-up operation on her in Xuzhou .

Peace Missions

With the "Peace Missions" he left the classic Interplast mission and its principle of political neutrality. The basic idea for the first Interplast peace mission came from a friend of Schoeneich's, the Munich film producer Gabriela Sperl . Through the documentary “ The Heart of Jenin ” they learned about the story of the Palestinian Ismail Khatib and invited him to Munich for talks. Following the example of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra , Schoeneich then put together an operation team of Christian, Muslim and Jewish colleagues. The mission was to take place in Jenin ( Dschenin ), West Bank, in the summer of 2011 .

On April 4, 2011, Juliano Mer-Khamis , Jewish-Palestinian director, activist and founder of the "Freedom Theater", was shot dead on the street in Jenin. Since the Interplast contacts on site had also been threatened, the Palestinian Minister of Health moved the planned mission to Nablus , West Bank. From June 23 to July 8, Schoeneich and his interreligious team operated on 118 Palestinian patients there, whose adequate plastic-surgical treatment would otherwise not have been possible.

On July 8, 2011, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on successful and problematic aspects of this attempt.

A camera team from Bayerischer Rundfunk under the direction of journalist Richard C. Schneider accompanied the operation. The 30-minute documentary "Operation Peace" was broadcast on September 5, 2011 in Das Erste (ARD). It was mentioned again in Schneider's 2018 book on the so-called Middle East conflict .

Importance to transsexual men

Schoeneich is one of the few German surgeons who, as early as the late 1980s, offered gender reassignment operations not only to transsexual women, but also to transsexual men . His professor at the time, Edgar Biemer, was the first plastic surgeon in Germany to begin adjustment operations in 1976. In the 1991 book “In the Wrong Body. Everything about transsexuality. ”, Ed. by Barbara Kamprad and Waltraud Schiffels , Schoeneich, together with practice co-owner Gisela Oeking, described the spectrum and risks of the techniques they were using at the time.

Due to the high risk of complications, he stopped lengthening the urethra in 1993 and only used the so-called roll-swivel flap from the thigh, or alternatively from the lower abdomen, for penoid formation. In his specialization in this classic method with preservation of the original genitals, he was considered the most well-known specialist in Germany until 2017 among the people mentioned. In 2010, his practice was one of seven operating centers for genital transformation in Germany that were run as contract clinics.

Photographic work

In 2004 Schoeneich exhibited the portrait series “Afghan Encounters” in Munich.

In multimedia lectures, he contrasts the landscape, architecture and everyday motifs of the respective country of deployment with recordings of medical findings caused by poverty and violence.

After Cyclone Nargis, he photographed the state of emergency and the extent of the destruction in Yangon, Burma / Myanmar. The photo series was published online on May 6, 2008 by two international photo press agencies.

TV and radio (selection)

  • 1993 Zeil um Zehn , guest of Alice Schwarzer, topic: Transsexuality; MR.
  • 2001 Die Zwei - Maischberger and Schmidbauer , topic: Deviants; BR.
  • 2002 Johannes B. Kerner , guest of Johannes B. Kerner; ZDF.
  • 2003 Under the Skin - The Second Life of Dr. Schoeneich, documentary film; ARD, Phoenix, BR.
  • 2003 alpha forum , in conversation with Silke Yeomans; BR.
  • 2006 Bavarian of the year , evening show; BR.
  • 2008 People of the Week , guest of Frank Elstner; SWR.
  • 2010 one to one. The talk - one-to-one conversations ; Bavaria 2.
  • 2011 Operation Peace , documentary film; ARD.
  • 2012 Plastic Surgery: Between Beauty Mania and Reality; SPIEGEL TV THEME.

Press (selection)

  • 1996 Plastic Surgery - Victim of the Killer Bacillus, Focus Magazin.
  • 2017 Emergency Medicine - When EU foreigners have no place in the health system , Süddeutsche Zeitung.

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