Jörn Kubicki

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Jörn Kubicki (born October 29, 1965 - March 28, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German neurologist and neurosurgeon . He was the life partner of the politician Klaus Wowereit and one of the first prominent victims of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany .

Life

Jörn Kubicki grew up in Sulzbach in Baden-Württemberg . He began studying medicine at the University of Heidelberg and finished it at the Free University of Berlin . He worked as a doctor in the Neukölln Clinic . Most recently, Kubicki worked as a neurologist at the Charité .

Kubicki became known to the wider public through his partnership with the former mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit. The two met on March 29, 1993 in the Kreuzberg Bar Centrale . After a few weeks they became a couple. Until her death in 1995, they cared for Wowereit's mother together. With the political rise of the then local politician Wowereit to the first openly homosexual head of government in a German federal state, Kubicki, as his partner and their shared private life, repeatedly moved into the reporting of supraregional media.

In public he appeared mainly at benefit events as well as film and theater premieres accompanied by Klaus Wowereit, as well as at the state banquet of Queen Elisabeth II during her visit to Germany in November 2004. Wowereit was the first German politician to present himself with Kubicki as a homosexual Partner in public.

Kubicki was a second cousin of the FDP politician Wolfgang Kubicki .

Kubicki was a heavy smoker and suffered from the lung disease COPD . He died of heart failure in March 2020 at the age of 54 during the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörn Kubicki In: Bunte.de , k. A., accessed March 30, 2020
  2. ↑ Obituary notice , tagesspiegel.de, accessed on April 8, 2020
  3. ^ The partner of Berlin's ex-Prime Minister Wowereit dead In: sueddeutsche.de , March 29, 2020, accessed on April 2, 2020
  4. ↑ Klaus Wowereit's life partner Jörn Kubicki died In: rbb24 , March 29, 2020, accessed on April 2, 2020
  5. ↑ "Wowereit? Never heard of" In: tagesspiegel.de , March 24, 2011, accessed on March 30, 2020
  6. ↑ Turning towards and reluctantly to Wowereit's page In: tagesspiegel.de , March 29, 2020, accessed on March 30, 2020
  7. ↑ a b c Die Kubickis: Relatives against their will In: focus.de , March 17, 2003, accessed on March 30, 2020
  8. ↑ Great mourning for the neurologist Jörn Kubicki In: morgenpost.de , March 29, 2020, accessed on March 30, 2020
  9. ↑ Long live reality In: zeit.de , May 19, 2011, accessed on March 30, 2020
  10. ↑ Wowereit and his partner plan to grow their family In: bz-berlin.de , May 2, 2018, accessed on March 30, 2020
  11. ↑ Wowereits husband was in mortal danger after an accident In: bild.de , January 16, 2016, accessed on March 30, 2020
  12. ↑ What is actually ... Jörn Kubicki? In: taz.de , March 8, 2002, accessed March 30, 2020
  13. ↑ Mattress caught fire! Significant other hurt! In: Bunte.de , June 8, 2012, accessed March 30, 2020
  14. ↑ For the good, your Majesty! In: bz-berlin.de , November 3, 2004, accessed April 4, 2020
  15. ↑ When the taboo fell in politics In: zeit.de , January 8, 2014, accessed on April 5, 2020
  16. ↑ The "and that is also good" man In: stern.de , October 6, 2007, accessed on March 30, 2020
  17. ↑ Great sympathy for the death of Klaus Wowereits partner In: tagesspiegel.de , March 29, 2020, accessed on April 2, 2020
  18. ↑ Corona infection: Klaus Wowereit's partner died In: queer.de , March 28, 2020, accessed on March 30, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kubicki, Jörn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1965
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2020
Place of death Berlin