Stanislaw Karol Kubicki

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Stanislaw Karol Kubicki (pseudonym: Peter Mantis ; * July 5, 1926 in Berlin ; † October 19, 2019 ibid) was a German professor of clinical neurophysiology , art scientist and first student at the Free University of Berlin .

School, war and studies

Kubicki was born in 1926 to artistically and politically ambitious parents. His father is the writer, philosopher, translator and expressionist painter Stanislaw Kubicki , murdered by the Gestapo in 1943 , who was friends with the anarchist Erich Mühsam and who emigrated to Poland in 1934 because of his left-wing political views. The mother Margarete Kubicka stayed with the children in Berlin, emigrated internally and turned away from communism after the Hitler-Stalin pact.

From 1931 Kubicki attended the elementary school in Berlin-Britz, from 1935 the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Realgymnasium in Neukölln. From 1940 to 1942 he was a member of a student resistance group and worked for the anti-fascist student magazine Sphinx (see “Six young Berliners” in the magazine Horizont Vol. 1 (1945/46) p. 9). In 1944 he made the Abitur at the State Kaiser-Wilhelm-Realgymnasium in Neukölln; this is followed by labor service; a trimester of medical school and the conscription, from February to August 1945 Soviet captivity.

As a child of anti-fascists, he enjoyed the status of “Victim of Fascism” (OdF) in the eastern sector of Berlin. While children from middle-class families were particularly rejected at Linden University, 19-year-old Kubicki was immediately given a place to study. In the third semester he co-founded the "Association of Antifascist Students".

This is followed by the pre-physics (April 1947) and physics (April 1948).

The political situation

The political conditions in the Soviet zone of occupation under the leadership of the SED and FDJ became increasingly unbearable for him. With others he was against the exaggerated preference given to the children of workers and peasants at matriculation and against the compulsory lectures in Marxism-Leninism (among others by Robert Havemann). He has a deep aversion to any form of totalitarianism - National Socialism as well as communism. Kubicki's home office was used several times as a meeting point for students who were critical of the regime and who wanted a new university free from political influences. The medics were particularly well organized. In the anatomy lecture, practically all of the 600 or so pre-clinicians were together once a day.

At the time, people whispered about Kubicki that he was a member of the SED. He got rid of this rumor in his very personal, blunt way: “I went to the blackboard shortly before the anatomy lecture started and wrote on it, ' I'm not in the SED! After that everything was calm, ”he said. After his friends Otto Stolz, Otto H. Hess and Joachim Schwarz were withdrawn from their study permit in April 1948, Kubicki wrote the decreeing article “Who denounces?” In a “peppered special” issue of the student magazine “Colloquium”, in danger of at least also being exmatriculated , if not to be arrested at all. (Opposition students disappeared without a trace at this time, were murdered or sentenced to 20 years of forced labor.) On November 5, Kubicki became the first enrolled student at Freie Universität through the famous throw of coins. The “Founding AStA” of the FU was mainly recruited from “colloquium” employees; Kubicki became admissions officer (practically the first head of the bursary).

Against the questionnaires of the Soviets (on political sentiment) and the Americans (131 questions!) Kubicki designed a form with only seven questions: on name, high school diploma, academic qualifications and - at the request of the Americans - on membership in Nazi organizations. It wasn't about ideology, but about performance. An American officer judged the questionnaire: "Correct and efficient".

With many racially and politically persecuted people, Kubicki introduced the incompatibility of membership in the FU and in a beating fraternity (later rejected as unconstitutional) in the statutes. The achievements of the students in the framework of the foundation of the FU lead to the participation of the student body in the committees of the university. In the first semesters, there is also a real and close community between teachers and students in the spirit of Wilhelm von Humboldt at the FU. In 1948 Kubicki became a member of the LDP.

Further study

From 1948 to 1951 he completed a parallel study of art history and classical archeology. After the medical state examination in 1952, a quarterly compulsory assistant in urology and neurosurgery at the Westend Clinic followed. In 1953 he was granted a full license to practice medicine and began training as a specialist in psychiatry and neurology; in addition, he was trained as an anesthetist in neurosurgery. In 1955 Kubicki did his doctorate on the value of electroencephalography in brain tumors. In 1961 he was recognized as a specialist in nervous and mental diseases.

From 1961 to 1965 Kubicki was the state treasurer of the FDP.

In 1967 he qualified as a professor with the thesis “The electroencephalographic phenomena in the course of acute sleeping pills”.

In 1968 he turned down an offer to Heidelberg as head of the department for clinical neurophysiology. The reason he gave was that the left-wing students had ruined the reputation of the Free University and Günther A. Neuhaus asked him to stay in Berlin “to save the university”. Kubicki became head of the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology at the Westend Clinic. For a few years, the focus will be on research into neurological and electrophysiological changes in comas and the problems of determining brain death in intensive care medicine.

In August 1969, Kubicki was appointed professor. He was one of the founders of the “ Notgemeinschaft für eine Free University ” (1969) and the “ Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft ” (1970). Both are associations of - after the attacks by left-wing students - disappointed reform-minded and conservative professors and lecturers with the aim of informing the public about the situation at the "Free University under hammer and sickle", so the title of a series. The series also publishes blacklists of left lecturers.

From 1971 to 1973 Kubicki was a member of the Academic Senate and the Council of the FU, and from 1971 to 1975 a member of the Medical Faculty. From 1974 until his retirement in 1992 head of the department for clinical neurophysiology, another focus: “sleep research” 1975 to 1991 managing director of the neurological-neurosurgery clinic in the Westend Clinic of the FU.

German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology

From 1963 to 1993 Kubicki was secretary of the "German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology", since 1993 honorary president of the society. In 1970 he founded the “Journal for Clinical Neurophysiology” (Thieme-Verlag) and was the sole editor. In 1979 he became a co-founder and for a long time was the editor of the advanced training organ “The Neurophysiology Laboratory” (originally: “The EEG Laboratory”; Gustav Fischer Verlag).

Federal Medical Association

Several times a year he led training seminars as part of the advanced training congresses of the German Medical Association. In 1986 he was awarded the Ernst von Bergmann Medal.

Cultural policy and art studies

On Kubicki's initiative, the Senator for Culture Adolf Arndt founds in the 1960s:

• the first Berlin art association (the "New Society for Fine Arts, Kunstverein Berlin". Board member until 1968),
• a series of books about Berlin art and Berlin artists of the twenties.
• the Berlinische Galerie (Museum of Modern Art and Photography). Kubicki was the initiator and co-founder.

From 1969 to 1974 Kubicki was a board member of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , in 1976 co-founder and long-standing president of the Jeanne Mammen Society in Berlin.

In addition, Kubicki took care of his parents' paintings and organized exhibitions. Until his death, he regularly loaned the exhibits in his possession to his parents and their avant-garde friends from Poland and the Rhineland for German and international exhibitions, organization of independent exhibitions, including:

• at the end of 1945 an exhibition of modern art (“What they had forbidden”) in the rooms of the city library on Ganghoferstraße in Neukölln
• 1975 the exhibition "Attempt at Reconstruction: International Exhibition of Revolutionary Artists 1922 in Berlin" (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein)
• 1992 the exhibition The Years of Crisis; Margarete Kubicka and Stanislaw Kubicki from 1918 to 1922 in the Berlinische Galerie

Post-reunification: The »Malteser Kreis«

In 1990, on the initiative of the head of the Foreign Office at the time, Horst Hartwich (honorary citizen of the Free University), the “48ers” (founding students of the FU) and “68ers” founded a discussion group that later met in the APO archive on Malteserstraße in Lankwitz (hence the name ” Maltese Circle «). In 1991 he became a member of the “HU-FU discussion group” at the Humboldt University, which was established by Roland Köhler . In 1998/9, for the FU's 50th anniversary, he and Siegward Lönnendonker organized a university lecture on its political history with contemporary witnesses involved (Karol Kubicki / Siegward Lönnendonker (ed.), 50 years of the Free University of Berlin - from the perspective of contemporary witnesses, Berlin 2002 ). Kubicki and the other members of the Malteser Kreis saw it as his task to create a previously non-existent documentation on the contribution of the Free University to the sciences beyond the abundance of presentations about the “Rote Kaderschmiede FU”: the “Contributions to the History of Science of the Free University Berlin". In addition, various articles about the merits of the FU. After the FU was awarded in the elite competition, Kubicki and Lönnendonker sum up: "Only the continuation of the Berlin Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in the Humboldtian spirit of freedom of teaching and research could guarantee the continuation of the scientific tradition with its top performance."

Composition of the Malteser Kreis, which formed the editorial board of the »Contributions to the History of Science of the Free University of Berlin«: Siegfried Baske (formerly Vice President of the Free University, died 2008), Ursula Besser (CDU, formerly chairwoman of the science committee of the Berlin House of Representatives, city elder of Berlin and since May 2011 member of the order Pour le mérite with the rank of colonel), Willi Diedrich (founding student of the FU, former chancellor of the TU, former state secretary), Ursula Hennig (Germanist, died 2006), Helmut Kewitz (founding member of the FU, board member of the emergency community for a free university, co-founder of the Liberal Action, died 2010), St. Karol Kubicki (matriculation number 1, member of the founding AStA, board member of the emergency community for a free university), Siegward Lönnendonker (former member of the German-Israeli study group and the socialist German Student union, founder and leader he of the APO archive of the FU), Ruth Recknagel (founding student of the FU, former judge at the higher court and director of the reparations offices of Berlin), Klaus Wahler (lawyer). In addition, many of those addressed expressed their desire to support the project through personal commitment, including a. Meta Alexander †, Eva Furth-Heilmann †, Karl Eichner †, Wolfgang Kalischer †, Henning Köhler , Georg Kotowski † (former member of the Bundestag), Günter Stüttgen † (board member in numerous international specialist organizations), Hanns-Peter Herz (former state secretary and former head of the Senate Chancellery), Ulrich Littmann † (former Managing Director of the German Fulbright Commission) and Ernst Benda † (Former President of the Federal Constitutional Court and former Federal Minister of the Interior), who in the following circulars about contributions for the lecture series and for the planned documentation about the advertise individual fields of science at Freie Universität.

Publications

medicine

A total of over 200 articles have been published in German, English and French-language magazines, over 80 of them on the subject of sleep physiology, 5 specialist books.

FU history

• Karol Kubicki / Siegward Lönnendonker (eds.), 50 years of the Free University of Berlin (1948–1998) from the perspective of contemporary witnesses , Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-89971-474-6 .
• Karol Kubicki / Siegward Lönnendonker (eds.), Contributions to the history of science at the Free University of Berlin :
• Vol. 1: The Free University of Berlin 1948–2007 - From the foundation to the excellence competition , 258 p. (In the appendix: a contribution about the left groups including brief characterizations of the K groups, a documentation of the disruptions of courses of the Free University in the period from winter term 1969/70 to winter term 1970/71 as well as the wording of the test clause, the federal-state agreement "Excellence Competition" and a list of partnerships and collaborations until 2006), Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978 -3-89971-474-6 .
• Vol. 2: The historical sciences at the Free University of Berlin , 220 pp. (With contributions by Ernst Baltrusch, Dietrich Kurz / Knut Schulz, Henning Köhler, Wolfram Fischer and Jürgen Kocka), Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-475- 3 .
• Vol. 3: The natural sciences at the Free University of Berlin , 178 pages (with contributions by Karl Peter Grotemeyer / Martin Aigner, Gerhard Berendt, Helmut Gabriel / Eckart Matthias, Helmut Baumgärtel, Volker Jacobshagen / Jürgen Fischer / Walter Franke / Peter Giese / Helmut Keupp / Karl Lenz / Michael Schaale / Werner Wehry, Karl-Heinz Frömming, Claus Schnarrenberger / Ekkehard Höxtermann and H. Walter Lack), Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-476-0 .
• Vol. 4: The cultural and ethno-sciences at the Free University of Berlin , 207 pp. (With contributions by Egon Renner, Johannes Renger, Rainer Voigt, Detlef Foljanty, Mechthild Leutner, Siegfried Baske, Hans-Joachim Torke; Heinz Ickstadt and Reinhard Liehr and an addendum on biochemistry by Eberhard Riedel), Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-856-0 .
• Vol. 5: Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, Islamic Studies and Newer Philologies at the Free University of Berlin , 205 p. (With contributions by Klaus Heinrich, Monika Thumblang / Anja Middelbeck-Varwick, Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt, Peter Schäfer / Klaus Herrmann, Gottfried Müller, Hartmut Eggert , Eberhard Lämmert, Hans-Dieter Gelfert and Michael Kaehne †) Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-954-3 .
• Vol. 6: Social sciences at the Free University of Berlin - educational science, psychology, university didactics, political science, research association SED state, communication sciences, sociology and tourism , 301 pp. (With contributions by Harald Scholtz †, Michael-Sören Schuppan, Wolfgang Schönpflug / Horst -Peter Brauns, Brigitte Berendt, Gerhard Göhler, Hubertus Buchstein, Tilman Fichter, Siegward Lönnendonker, Klaus Schroeder, Gernot Wersig † / Ulrich Neveling, Heiner Ganßmann and Günther Haedrich and Kristiane Klemm), Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8471-0141 -3 .
• Vol. 7: The ancient and art studies at the Free University of Berlin , 207 pp. (With contributions by Adolf H. Borbein, Ursula Moortgat-Correns †, Klaus Bruhn, Matthias Fritz, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Christian Pischel / Danny Gronmaier / Cilli Pogodda / David Gaertner / Tobias Haupts and supplements on law and economics by Heinz Rieter and Gisela Simmat), Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8471-0427-8 , ISBN 978-3-8470-0427-1 (E- Book).

Art history

• Attempt at a reconstruction (catalog 1975)
• Viktor Kuhr (Catalog 1985)
• The years of crisis (Berlinische Galerie 1992)
• In transit (Berlinische Galerie 1992)
• A poet translates himself (WIR Verlag 2005)
• Zdroj i The action: Współpraca dwóch czasopismkulturalnych w okresie pierwszej wojny światowej. In: BUNT (in German: Revolte); Ekspresjonizm Poznanski 1917–1925
• Promotion of the photomechanical reprint of the action from 1911 to 1918 (publisher Franz Pfemfert) and some other avant-garde papers (“Der Weg”, “a bis z”, “Aktion-Lyrik”) from the Weimar period at Cotta, DTV and Kraus Reprint.
• 1963 funeral speech at the coffin of Anja Pfemfert, the translator of Leon Trotsky's writings into German. - Partial reprint in AUFBAU, New York.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} First student at FU Berlin died. Report on rbb24 , October 22, 2019. Accessed October 22, 2019.
2. ↑ See James F. Tent : Freie Universität Berlin 1948–1988. A German university in current affairs. Colloquium, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7678-0744-0 , p. 42 f.
3. ↑ See James F. Tent: Freie Universität Berlin ... p. 71
4. ↑ See James F. Tent: Freie Universität Berlin ... p. 209.
5. ↑ The neurophysiology laboratory . ( elsevier.com [accessed September 22, 2017]).