Udo Schagen

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Udo Schagen (born September 27, 1939 in Düsseldorf ) is a German medical historian .

Life

Udo Schagen studied medicine at the universities of Munich , Münster , Innsbruck and Hamburg from 1960 to 1966 . In 1968 in Hamburg his promotion to Doctor of Medicine (MD.) With an experimental work on the circulatory physiology. In 1968 he received his license to practice medicine ; until 1969 he worked in various hospitals in the Rhineland .

1969–1971 he received a scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and worked as a research assistant at the Physiological Institute of the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin). 1971–1986 worked as department head for planning and administration of the medical university areas of the Free University of Berlin (FUB) and in this function was part of the planning staff of the FU president. From 1986 to 2004 he was then head of the research center “Contemporary History of Medicine”, first at the Free University of Berlin, then at the Charité Berlin . From 2003 to 2007 he led, together with Sabine Schleiermacher , the DFG project “Scientific aspiration and state interest. The university medicine at the Charité in the change of political systems 1933 and 1945 ”. Since his retirement, Schagen has continued to work as a visiting scientist at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at the Charité Berlin.

From 1971 to 1998 he was also editor and co-editor of the series "Kritische Medizin", which he co-founded and published by Argument Verlag , and has since been a member of the editorial board.

Schagen is married. He lives in Altwustrow in the Oderbruch .

Research areas

Schagen's main research interests include: the history of science in medicine, training and further education in the health professions, as well as politics, structure and development of the health system and medical faculties in the political systems of Germany in post-war Germany, especially in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR .

He also dealt intensively with research into medicine in the Nazi state . Here he also examined the history of the Charité during the Third Reich. In the ARD documentary Die Charité - Stories of Life and Death , which premiered on Das Erste in March 2017 , Schagen was one of the researchers surveyed on the history of the Charité.

Schagen u. a. to Ferdinand Sauerbruch , Wolfgang Heubner , Otto Krayer , Hermann Stieve and Rolf Winau .

Publications (selection)

  • Udo Schagen, Sabine Schleiermacher: 100 years of history of social hygiene, social medicine and public health in Germany. Documentation by the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP) , CD-Rom, Berlin 2005.
  • Udo Schagen: Research on human organs after "sudden death" and the anatomist Hermann Stieve (1862-1952) . In: The Berlin University during the Nazi era. Volume II Departments and Faculties. Edited by Rüdiger vom Bruch with the collaboration of R. Schaarschmidt. Franz Steiner Publishing House. Stuttgart 2005, pp. 35-54. ISBN 3-515-08658-7 .
  • Sabine Schleiermacher, Udo Schagen (Ed.): The Charité in the Third Reich . The use of medical science under National Socialism . Ferdinand Schöningh Publishing House. Paderborn 2008. ISBN 978-3-506-76476-8 .
  • Sabine Schleiermacher (Ed.), Udo Schagen (Ed.), Andreas Malycha (Assoc.), Johannes Vossen (Assoc.): Science makes politics. University in the political system breaks in 1933 and 1945 . Franz Steiner Publishing House. Stuttgart 2009. ISBN 978-3-515-09315-6 .
  • Nils Hansson, Udo Schagen: Apparently there was some countermovement in Stockholm ”- Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875–1951) and the Nobel Prize. Journal for the history of science, technology and medicine: Volume 22, Issue 3 (2014), pages 133–161.
  • Udo Schagen: "Worthy" representative of German doctors. About Ferdinand Sauerbruch . Health needs politics . Journal of a Social Medicine. Issue 4, 2015. Pages 17–18.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Udo Schagen . Vita. Retrieved March 28, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Udo Schagen . Vita. Official website of Franz Steiner Verlag . Retrieved March 28, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Udo Schagen . Vita. Reading series: Berlin encounters in five decades. Official website of Kohlenkeller Berlin-Zehlendorf. Retrieved March 28, 2017
  4. ↑ Late love for the countryside: Pensioners from Berlin are drawn to Brandenburg . In: Tagesspiegel of April 21, 2014. Retrieved on March 28, 2017.
  5. ↑ A room with a view of the Oderbruch . In: Märkische Oderzeitung from July 1, 2015. Accessed on March 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ with Petra Ambassador and Antje Grauhan : Model experiment development and testing of a 3-year course for teachers at educational establishments for medical professions. Interim report , Free University of Berlin 1977.
  7. ↑ Persecuted Scientists: The Charité commemorates its Nazi victims . In: Tagesspiegel of April 24, 2014. Retrieved on March 28, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Schagen, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf