Dr. Uwe Kaminsky
researcher staffCharité – University Medicine Berlin
Thielallee 71
14195 Berlin
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Uwe Kaminsky is a historian whose research focuses on contemporary history, social history and diaconal history in the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to the topics of the history of eugenics and Nazi "euthanasia" such as mission history, he has devoted himself especially to oral history and debate topics such as the elucidation of forced labor, research into the fates of institutionalized children (including the use of medication), and research into sexualized violence.
Current research projects
Since 2021, he has been working at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at Charité as part of two projects:
- „Hirnforschung an Instituten der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Kontext nationalsozialistischer Unrechtstaten" ("Brain Research at Institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the Context of National Socialist Injustice").
- „Arzneimittelforschung, Fa. Merck" ("Drug Research, Merck Company")
Research interests
- History of eugenics and Nazi "euthanasia
- History of missions
- History of home education
Selected publications
Kaminsky, U., Tabuisierung und Gewalt. Sexualisierte Gewalt in der konfessionellen Heimerziehung der 1950er und 1960er-Jahre, in: Wirth, Mathias, Isabelle Noth und Silvia Schroer (Hrsg.): Sexualisierte Gewalt in kirchlichen Kontexten | Sexual Violence in the Context of the Church: Neue interdisziplinäre Perspektiven | New Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Berlin/Boston 2022, S. 285–303.
Kaminsky, U., Sterilisation und NS-"Euthanasie": Marginalisierung und Notstandsdenken, in: Osterloh, Jörg und Jan Schulte (Hrsg.): „Euthanasie“ und Holocaust: Kontinuitäten, Kausalitäten, Parallelitäten, Schriftenreihe der Gedenkstätte Hadamar 1, Paderborn: Brill, Schöningh 2021, S. 111–136.
Kaminsky, U., Klöcker, K., Medikamente und Heimerziehung am Beispiel des Franz Sales Hauses. Historische Klärungen - Ethische Perspektiven, Münster 2020.
Vita Dr. Uwe Kaminsky
Uwe Kaminsky is a historian and has been working since his doctorate (1995) with a research focus on contemporary history, social history and diaconal history in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially on the history of eugenics and Nazi "euthanasia".
He was head of the "Workshop of Memory" at the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg (1995-2000), head of the project for research on forced labor in the Protestant Church in the Rhineland (2000-2002), research associate at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Fliedner Cultural Foundation in Düsseldorf (2003-2006), and at the Ruhr University of Bochum in the DFG research group „Transformation der Religion in der Moderne“ ("Transformation of Religion in Modernity") and other academic projects, including the history of home education and the use of medication in institutions for the disabled. Most recently, he conducted the DFG project „Patienten im Großbetrieb der Barmherzigkeit“ ("Patients in the Large-scale Enterprise of Mercy") on the v. Bodelschwingh Institutions (2017-2021).
He is currently working on the research projects „Hirnforschung an Instituten der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Kontext nationalsozialistischer Unrechtstaten" ("Brain Research at Institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the Context of National Socialist Injustice") and „Arzneimittelforschung, Fa. Merck" ("Drug Research, Merck Company").
