Jens Reich

Jens Georg Reich ( born March 26, 1939 in Göttingen) is a German physician and molecular biologist. He became known primarily as a civil rights activist in East Germany during the reversal time. In 1994 he was nominated by the Green Party President candidate.

Life

Jens Reich grew up in Halberstadt. After studying Medicine and Molecular Biology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, he initially worked as a doctor in Halberstadt. After an additional biochemical specialist training in Jena, he worked scientifically, from 1968 at the Central Institute for Molecular Biology in Berlin-Buch. Reich received his doctorate in Berlin in 1964. In 1980 he became professor of biomathematics and temporary head of department at the Central Institute of Molecular Biology. He lost the department head position in 1984 because he refused to abandon his contacts with the West and to cooperate with the Ministry of State Security.

1970 Empire had established a " Friday group", which took a critical look with the GDR regime. In September 1989, he was one of the authors and first signatories of the call "Departure 89 - NEW FORUM", which led to the founding of the New Forum. On November 4, 1989, he was one of the speakers at the biggest demonstration of the reversal time on the Alexanderplatz in Berlin. After the parliamentary elections on 18 March 1990 he was a member of the only freely elected People's Chamber of the GDR. In 1991 he received the Theodor Heuss Medal representative with others for " The peaceful demonstrators the fall of 1989 in the former GDR." In 1994 he was (see choice of the German President 1994) proposed by an independent initiative as a candidate for the office of president and nominated by Alliance 90/The Greens, but lost in the Federal Assembly.

1991, he returned back to the realm of research. He went to the USA, then became a visiting professor at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and later research group leader at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. Here he worked until his retirement in 2004 with the Genome Research.

Empire belonged from 2008 to 2012 the German Ethics Council, and since 2001 was already a member of its precursor, the National Ethics Council. Since 1990 he is co-editor of the political- scientific monthly magazine Sheets for German and international politics. He is a member of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

2009 Empire received the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker price, which was awarded this year by the Donors ' Association for German Science and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina first time. In the same year Reich was awarded the Schiller Prize of the city of Marbach am Neckar.

His daughter is the physics professor Stephanie Reich ( b. 1973 ).

Works

  • C Curve Fitting and Modeling for Scientists and Engineers. McGraw -Hill 1992, ISBN 0-07-051761-4
  • Return to Europe. Switch to the new state of the nation. Dtv, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-423-30403-0
  • Devil questions. Ethical conflicts in biomedicine. 2- CD set. supposé, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-932513-62-6
  • Growth as a problem: models and regulation ( border issues natural sciences ). Verlag Karl Alber 1997, ISBN 978-3495478684.
  • Essay: Peter Noeldechen: Shared memories: Coverage of the GDR from 1974 to 1989. With an essay by Jens Reich. callidus 2009. ISBN 978-3940677112.
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