1944 |
Born in Memel/East Prussia (now Klaipeda/Lithuania) |
1950-54 |
elementary school in Bamberg, then Würzburg |
1954-64 |
grammar/high school in Würzburg, then Mönchengladbach; many vacation and odd jobs in various areas |
1964-65 |
2 semesters economy at Hamburg University |
1965-66 |
training and work as a programmer at the August-Thyssen steelworks (Duisburg) and Commerzbank (Düsseldorf) |
1966-72 |
study of psychology at the universities of Cologne, Bochum and Westberlin (Free University, FU); subsidiary subject sociology;
student tutor for learning psycholgy in Bochum; pre-diploma 1968 in Bochum;
student tutor for statistics at the FU; at the same time student employee at the APIA research project at the architecture faculty of the Technical University (TU) Berlin; diploma 1972 in Berlin |
1972-77 |
part-time teaching assistant for empirical research & statistics at the Institute of Pedagogics of the FU Berlin; at the same time, part-time lecturer for theory of science at the Psychological Institute of the FU |
1976 |
marriage to Ulrike Schneider; birth of our son Kris; doctorate in psychology with "summa cum laude" on "the experiment in psychology" (book title) |
1977-84 |
researcher at the WZB (Science Center Berlin) in an empirical research project (sponsored by BMFT, Federal Ministry of Reearch and Technology) on industrial work and myocardial infarction; monography on "social causes of myocardial infarction" (1982) |
1980 |
birth of our son Mirko |
1981 |
habilitation in psychology at the FU |
1984-2007 |
professor of soial medicine (since 2003: health science & social policy)
at the faculty of social education of the Fachhochschule (FH, Advanced Technical College; later: HAW, University of Applied Science) Hamburg |
since 1984 |
monography on nervous diseases by workplace chemicals (1988); consultant in occupational disease lawsuits (1988-98); empirical research project on AIDS with two colleagues for the BMFT (1989-91); 3 months as a "temporary consultant" at the Regional Office/Europe of the WHO (Copenhagen), occupational safety department (1991) |
since 1992 |
monography on cardiovascular diseases by workplace chemicals (1992); expert´s opinion on the establishment of a course of studies in health science at the FH Hamburg (1993); 8 months as a "visiting scholar" at the School of Public Health, University of Washington (Seattle), epidemiology department (1995-6); monography on multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) (1996); empirical MCS project for the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung (a trade-union foundation) (1996-7); testimonial on "evaluation controversies in environment & health with relevance for preventive policies" (1997, with Rolf Rosenbrock/WZB); 12 months sabbatical (1999-2000): monography on MCS and painters´ disease (Bk 1317), 5 months in Seattle |
since 2000 |
monography on environmental justice (2001); empircal research project on environmental justice (2002-3); vice dean of the faculty (2002-5); internal evaluation report of the faculty (2003); 2 months in Edinburgh, and evaluation of the Scottish environmental justice policy for Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES) (2005) |
2006 |
severe heart surgery |
2007 |
early retirement |
since 2007 |
traveling; work with environmental grass-root groups; work on environmental justice |