Uwe-Jens Juergensen

Uwe-Jens Juergensen (born September 26, 1941 in Bad Bibra ) is a German internist.

Life

Jürgensen's father was a teacher and died in Russia in December 1941. The mother remarried in 1950.

After primary school in Bad Bibra, Jürgensen attended the Schulpforta state home school from 1955 . In order to be able to study medicine, he served two years from 1959 with the Mot.-Schützenregiment 18 of the 11th motorized rifle division in Weißenfels . From 1961 he studied medicine at the Medical Academy Magdeburg . In 1966 he married the operating room nurse Elke-Margarita Ebers . The doctoral thesis he wrote at the habilitated hematologists Karl-Heinz Klare . As a clear personal physician of Willi Stoph (and professor) was, who took over rheumatologist Wolfgang Keitel taking care of the work. Jürgensen was promoted to Dr. med. PhD.

To get permission to move to East Berlin and move in with his wife, he had to return to Germany. As a doctor and flight officer, he served two years in the air force of the National People's Army , in the Strausberg Aviation Battalion.

From 1969 he worked in the government hospital of the GDR , where his doctoral supervisor always wanted him. In 1976 he became senior physician and department head in the clinic and polyclinic for diplomats (in the neighboring building). In the 40 years of the government hospital, Jürgensen remained the only “deviator” among the doctors. His stepfather and mother disclosed his escape plan to the State Security Service . From February 1980, Juergensen was under constant observation by nine (ten) MfS agents. He and his wife were arrested by the state security service in Treptow on August 1, 1981, when they were going on vacation to Hungary. The seven-year-old daughter was sent to a children's home. The parents were sentenced to two years in prison for “ illegally crossing the border ” and “treasonous agent activity”. They spent them in the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen prison , in the Rummelsburg prison , in the Cottbus prison and in the Bützow prison (and in the Hoheneck women's prison ). Released to East Berlin in June 1983, the couple was watched by two men from the State Security Service and an employee of the GDR customs administration . Elmar Pieroth and Heinrich Windelen negotiated with Wolfgang Vogel about the release of prisoners . Oskar Fischer was in favor, Herbert Häber against. In February 1984, Jürgensen was able to move to West Berlin with his wife and daughter . On October 1, 1984, he took over a doctor's practice in Mühldorf am Inn .

Works

• with Elke Jürgensen and Volker Ebers: In the Stasi network, first betrayed - then sold . Haag + Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 2008. ISBN 978-3864400261 ; 3rd edition, Wismar 2012.
• Your heart - your health. Medical guide for the cardiovascular sick and healthy . Wismar 2012.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgensen, Uwe-Jens in the catalog of the German National Library
• First betrayed - then sold (turus.net)
• Uwe-Jens Juergensen at ddr-zeitzeuge.de

Remarks

1. ↑ The book was actually supposed to appear as a commemorative publication for Helga Mucke-Wittbrodt's 70th birthday in September 1980. This was thwarted by the MfS because Jürgensen had been on the black list since February 1980. Found again by chance after 30 years, the manuscript was fundamentally revised and put into print as a new book.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: The Le and pseudo Le cell phenomenon in epidemic hepatitis and chronic hepatitis or liver cirrhosis .
2. ↑ Uwe-Jens Jürgensen (GDR contemporary witness)