Iris Ritzmann

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Iris Karin Ritzmann Wolff (born March 27, 1962 in Zurich ) is a Swiss medical historian .

Live and act

The daughter of the economist Franz Ritzmann and the doctor Margarete Ritzmann-Firnbacher completed the Matura type A in 1981 at the canton school Hohe Promenade in Zurich. She studied medicine at the University of Zurich from 1982 to 1988 and graduated with a state examination and doctorate (1991). From 1991 to 1996 she studied general history, medical history and social and economic history at the University of Zurich and graduated with a degree .

From September 1990 to April 1993 Ritzmann worked as an assistant at the Medical History Institute at the University of Zurich. From May 1993 to August 1997 she worked as a research assistant at the Medical History Institute and lecturer at the Medical Faculty. She then worked from September 1997 to June 2001 as a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart. In July 2001 she returned to her previous position at the University of Zurich.

In January 2002 she took over the management of the manuscript and picture collection of the Medical History Institute, which she converted into the Medical History Archive, which she directed until 2010. In September 2005, she completed her habilitation for the history of medicine at the University of Zurich . After the retirement of Beat Rüttimann it launched in March 2010, the Medical History Institute interim basis, from February 2011 to November 2013 she was deputy director. On May 30, 2012, Ritzmann was appointed adjunct professor .

Ritzmann's main research areas are the history of pediatrics , the “history of medical practice” and the “history of certain patient groups”, each from the 18th to the 20th century. She is an editorial member of the Swiss medical history journal Gesnerus and the Swiss Medical Journal (SAEZ). In 2018 she was elected President of the Jewish Liberal Congregation (JLG) Zurich.

She is married to the cultural anthropologist and medical historian Eberhard Wolff and has two children.

Dismissed from the University of Zurich

In November 2012, she was released from university and criminal proceedings for breach of official secrecy were initiated against her, during which she and her husband were detained for one night by the police. Findings from the proceedings led to Ritzmann's release in October 2013. Based on the report by Heinrich Koller published on December 4, 2013, the university management confirmed the dismissal on the same day, which thus became final. Ritzmann had filed a lawsuit against this. After the Zurich administrative court had described the dismissal as “ arbitrary ” in November 2019 , the university moved the verdict to the federal court .

The criminal proceedings and the measures taken by the university against Ritzmann were related to proceedings under personnel law that resulted in Christoph Mörgeli's dismissal as curator of the Medical History Museum at the University of Zurich in the Mörgeli affair . Ritzmann was accused of betraying the institute's internal information to the Tages Anzeiger , to the detriment of Mörgeli's, and of having given out login data for direct access to computer data without the university's knowledge. Ritzmann denied the allegations made against her, claiming that he had only corrected false facts. Ritz's favor off 286 university professors as well as domestic over 300 other academics and foreign universities in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung , a manifesto as an advertisement. On November 6, 2013, Andreas Fischer announced his immediate resignation as rector of the university.

In June 2014, the Zurich public prosecutor brought charges against Ritzmann for multiple breaches of official secrecy, but her husband was exonerated. At the end of November 2014, the process began before the Zurich District Court, which first had to clarify whether the evidence presented by the public prosecutor's office was admissible. The court denied this by pointing out that the evidence was illegally obtained. It acquitted Ritzmann in December 2014 in the first instance for lack of evidence. On December 1, 2015, the Zurich Higher Court largely confirmed the legal arguments of the lower court.

In February 2016, the University of Zurich published an international expert report from 2013 on the quality of medical history dissertations after the Federal Supreme Court had ordered this. The reviewers certify that the dissertations supervised by Iris Ritzmann have "consistently high scientific standards".

The Zurich Higher Court acquitted Ritzmann on March 14, 2017 in the final instance.

Fonts (selection)

  • Obesity: Discrimination and suffering. Dissertation , University of Zurich, 1991.
  • House rules and rest cure: From the public sanatorium to the special clinic. 100 years of the Zürcher Höhenklinik Wald. Chronos, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-905312-79-4 .
  • Problem children: sick and disabled girls and boys in the 18th century. Böhlau, Köln / Wien / Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20149-4 (partly also: habilitation thesis , University of Zurich, 2004; review of Sehepunkte , vol. 9 (2009), ed. 6).
  • ed. with Wiebke Schweer, Eberhard Wolff : Inside views of a doctor's forge: teaching, learning and living - from the history of the Zurich medical school. Chronos, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-0340-0909-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/iris-ritzmann-praesidiert-neu-die-juedische-liberale-gemeinde-in-zuerich-ld.1390731 , accessed on April 7, 2020.
  2. ↑ https://www.jlg.ch/vorstand , accessed on April 7, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b kle (author's abbreviation): Mörgeli case: Rector of the University of Zurich resigns. In: Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich (online). Tamedia AG, Zurich, November 6, 2013, accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Pascal Unterstährer: Mörgeli case: "Iris Ritzmann has congratulated the TA journalist". In: Basler Zeitung. Basler Zeitung Medien, December 4, 2013, accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  5. ^ Mörgeli affair: University of Zurich pulls Ritzmann judgment to federal court. In: tagesanzeiger.ch . January 6, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Mörgeli case and no end - University of Zurich continues defeat against Iris Ritzmann. In: srf.ch . January 6, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  7. ^ Johanna Wedl: Mörgeli case: dismissed university employee denies allegations. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (online). Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG, October 29, 2013, accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  8. ^ Academic protest against the dismissal of Prof. Dr. Iris Ritzmann through the University of Zurich. In: akademischerprotest.ch. Retrieved October 26, 2017 .
  9. ^ Walter Bernet: "Case Mörgeli": Sharp criticism of the university. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (online). Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG, October 30, 2013, accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Fabian Baumgartner: Affair Mörgeli: An indictment and a compensation. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (online). Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG, June 19, 2014, accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Thomas Schraner: The all-important preliminary question in the Iris Ritzmann case. In: az Limmattaler Zeitung (online). AZ Medien AG, November 28, 2014, accessed on October 27, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Walter Bernet (wbt.): Proceedings for breach of official secrecy: Acquittal of Iris Ritzmann lack of evidence. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (online). Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG, December 5, 2014, accessed on October 27, 2017 .
  13. ^ Fabian Baumgartner: Decision of the Zurich Higher Court: Iris Ritzmann's victory in the Mörgeli affair. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (online). Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG, December 12, 2014, accessed on October 27, 2017 .
  14. ^ Walter Bernet: Dissertations at the Medical History Institute: Insufficient supervision by Mörgeli. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (online). Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG, February 9, 2016, accessed on October 27, 2017 .
  15. ↑ mst / sda (author's abbreviation): Ritzmann supervised doctoral students better than Mörgeli. In: Zürichsee-Zeitung (online). February 9, 2016, accessed October 27, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Matthias Scharrer: Theses supervised by Mörgeli did not meet scientific standards. In: az Limmattaler Zeitung (online). AZ Medien AG, February 10, 2016, accessed on October 27, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Ricarda Ferrari: Mörgeli affair: Iris Ritzmann has definitely been acquitted. In: az Limmattaler Zeitung (online). AZ Medien AG, March 24, 2017, accessed on October 27, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Patrice Siegrist (sip): Christoph Mörgeli has to compensate Iris Ritzmann. In: Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich (online). Tamedia AG, Zurich, March 24, 2017, accessed on October 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Ritzmann, Iris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritzmann Wolff, Iris Karin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich