Prof. Dr. Thomas Beddies
Deputy Head of InstituteCharité - University Medicine Berlin
Thielallee 71
14195 Berlin
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Thomas Beddies has been working at the Institute since 2003; as deputy director, he is also primarily responsible for coordinating courses in the history and ethics of medicine in the Charité's model course of study in human medicine. For several years, he has also headed the project "GeDenkOrt.Charite", which is affiliated with the Charité Executive Board and deals with the history of the Charité, especially during the National Socialist era. In his research, Thomas Beddies deals, among other things, with the history of medicine in Berlin in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of pediatrics and the history of psychiatry. Currently, under the title "Berlin auf Droge" (Berlin on Drugs), he is leading the DFG Research Group 3031 "NORMAL#VERRÜCKT. Zeitgeschichte einer erodierenden Differenz" (Contemporary History of an Eroding Difference), a project on heroin use in the Wall City between psychiatric reform and AIDS phobia in the 1970s and 1980s.
Current research project
„Berlin auf Droge. Heroinkonsum in der Mauerstadt zwischen Psychiatriereform und AIDS-Phobie in den 1970er- und 1980er-Jahren“ ("Berlin on Drugs. Heroin Use in the Wall City between Psychiatric Reform and AIDS-Phobia in the 1970s and 1980s").
Individual project within the DFG Research Group 3031 "NORMAL#VERRÜCKT. Zeitgeschichte einer erodierenden Differenz“ („NORMAL#Crazy. Contemporary history of an eroding difference").
Research focus
- History of medicine in Berlin and Brandenburg in the 19th and 20th centuries
- History of medicine under National Socialism
- History of pediatrics
- History of psychiatry
Selected Publications
Beddies, T. (2020) Ausnahmezustände. Heron und AIDS in Berlin (1970-1990), in: Westfälische Forschungen 70 (2020), S. 163-175 (FS F.W. Kersting zum 65 Geb.).
Beddies, T. (2020) Sendung und Bewusstsein – Deutsche Psychiater nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Gundula Gahlen, Ralf Gnosa, Oliver Janz (Hgg.) Nerven und Krieg. Psychische Mobilisierungs- und Leidenserfahrungen in Deutschland (1900-1939), Frankfurt/New York, S. 273-292.
Michl, S.; Beddies, T.; Bonah, C. (Hgg.) (2029) Zwangsversetzt. Vom Elsass an die Berliner Charité. Die Aufzeichnungen des Chirurgen Adolphe Jung, 1940-1945, Berlin.
Beddies, T. (2017) Traditionsbruch ohne Neuanfang. Die I. Chirurgische Klinik der Berliner Universität im „Dritten Reich“ (Hefte zur Geschichte der Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin 1), Berlin.
Rose, W., Fuchs, P.; Beddies, T. (2016) Diagnose „Psychopathie“. Die urbane Moderne und das schwierige Kind. Berlin 1918-1933 (Kulturen des Wahnsinns [1870-1930]; Bd. 3), Wien/Köln/Weimar.
Vita Prof. Dr. Thomas Beddies
Thomas Beddies, born in 1958, studied history and political science at the Free University (FU) Berlin. From 1991 to 1993, he headed a project in Berlin to enforce reparation claims for victims of Nazi medicine. In 1993 he received his doctorate, and from 1993 to 1997 he was a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the FU in the DFG project "Patient Descriptions of the Wittenau Sanatoriums from 1919 to 1960." From 1998 to 2001 he was a research associate at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald in the DFG project: „Die Soziale Integration psychisch Kranker als Ziel psychiatrischer Versorgung - historische Entwicklung seit 1900 in Deutschland“ ("The Social Integration of the Mentally Ill as a Goal of Psychiatric Care - Historical Development since 1900 in Germany") and subsequently until 2003 ibid. in the DFG project „Kinder als Opfer nationalsozialistischer Medizinverbrechen. Die Einbeziehung Minderjähriger in die Tötung behinderter und psychisch kranker Menschen 1939 bis 1945“ ("Children as Victims of National Socialist Medical Crimes. The Involvement of Minors in the Killing of Disabled and Mentally Ill People 1939 to 1945").
Since summer 2003, he has been working as an assistant or research associate at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. In 2009 he habilitated in the history of medicine at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
