Peter Gaehtgens
Peter Gaehtgens ( born September 1, 1937 in Dresden, Saxony ) is a German physician. He is a professor of physiology and from 2003 to 2005, President of the German Rectors' Conference.
Life
After graduating from high school in Aachen Gaehtgens studied medicine in Freiburg, Munich and Cologne Human Medicine and graduated in 1964 with the degree of Dr. med from. After his license to practice medicine, he became in 1966 a research assistant at the Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology, University of Cologne, Cologne but left after one year to be active as a Fellow and Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. After his two- year tenure there, he habilitated in 1971 in Cologne also in physiology.
1983 Gaehtgens on a C4 professorship at the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) was appointed. Gaehtgens acted in several international scientific societies, such as as Secretary General of the European Society for Microcirculation and Vice - President of the International Society of Biorheology. For his scientific work, he has received various international awards, such as the Malpighi Medal of the European Society for Microcirculation, was Honorary Professor at the Tashkent State University and at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and in 1996 a member of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW ). In the academic administration Gaehtgens served as Medical Vice President, in 1995 Dean of the Medical Faculty of the Free University of Berlin and served as 1st Vice President and Deputy President of the University. From 1999 until his retirement in 2003 was Gaehtgens president of the Freie Universität Berlin.
In 2003 he was elected President of the German Rectors' Conference and held that post until the end of 2005. In this role Gaehtgens came as a champion of tuition fees in the criticism and why was 2005 at the University of Tübingen victim of a pie attack. From 2005 to 2009 he was a member of the Board (Board) of the European University Association (EUA ); He has worked at the European level as a Senior Advisor to the European Centre for Strategic Management of Universities ( ESMU, Brussels) since 2009. Since early 2008, he held the position of Chairman of the University Council of Schleswig -Holstein, which is responsible for the universities in Kiel, Lübeck and Flensburg. In June 2010, the University of Schleswig -Holstein, resigned in protest against the austerity plans of the state government back closed
Gaehtgens is married and has a son. Gaehtgens is grandson of Louis Ruyter Radcliffe Grote and brother of the art historian Thomas W. Gaehtgens.