Ralf Forsbach

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Ralf Forsbach (born March 21, 1965 in Siegburg ) is a German historian and medical historian . His main areas of work are the German history of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially the diplomatic and social history of the German Empire, Nazi medicine and health policy since 1945. Forsbach has published numerous works on these areas (monographs, editions, essays, reviews) published.

Life

Forsbach studied history , political science and international law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1984 and graduated in 1990 with a Magister Artium . In 1995 he was at Klaus Hildebrand with the dissertation Kiderlen- guards and German foreign policy doctorate .

From 1994 to 1995 he temporarily headed the archive of the University of Bonn, from 1995 to 1997 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Linguistics and Literature Studies at the University of Rostock , from 1997 to 1999 at the History Department of the University of Bonn and since 1999 at the Institute of Medical History of the University of Bonn. There he completed his habilitation under Heinz Schott in 2006 and was appointed private lecturer . In 2015 he moved to the Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine at the University of Münster , and since 2018 he has also been teaching at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Cologne.

For his habilitation thesis he received the later after 2006. Herbert Lewin called "Research Award on the role of the medical profession in National Socialism" of the Federal Ministry of Health , the German Medical Association and doctors' Confederation . In 2008 he was appointed to the scientific advisory board of the Hadamar Memorial , and in 2015 he was elected a member of the Society for Rhenish History .

Forsbach has been married since 2004.

Fonts

  • Alfred von Kiderlen-Wächter (1852–1912): A diplomatic life in the German Empire. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-525-36052-5 .
  • Eugen Fischer-Baling (1881–1964): manuscripts, articles, letters and diaries. Oldenbourg, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-486-56561-3 .
  • Medicine in the “Third Reich”. Human experiments, euthanasia, and contemporary debates. Lit, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-825-89169-0 .
  • The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich”. Oldenbourg, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-486-57989-4 .
  • The 68s and medicine . V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 3-899-71760-0 .
  • With Hans-Georg Hofer, The German Society for Internal Medicine during the Nazi era. Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049197-9 .
  • With Hans-Georg Hofer, internist in dictatorship and a young democracy. The German Society for Internal Medicine 1933-1970. ed. by Cornel Sieber , Ulrich R. Fölsch and Maximilian G. Broglie, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95466-373-6 .

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SURNAME Forsbach, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Siegburg