Provisional management (1980-1985)

After the death of Prof. Manfred Pflanz, his former colleague Prof. Johann Jürgen Rohde (* 1929 in Halle an der Saale; † September 4, 2001) took over as acting director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Public Health Research at the MHH.

Rohde initially trained as a journalist and studied sociology, psychology and systematic theology at the University of Hamburg from 1954. In 1960, he completed his doctorate on the sociology of hospitals and habilitated in 1971. From 1974 to 1995, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Sociology at the Center for Public Health Care at the MHH.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Claus Angermeyer (* August 14, 1941 in Nuremberg), physician, university lecturer and co-founder of the association Irrsinnig Menschlich, joined the Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Public Health Research in 1978 and, after the death of Manfred Pflanz in 1980, took over the work at the Institute together with Bernt-Peter Robra under the acting director Prof. Dr. Johann Jürgen Rohde.

In 1981, Angermeyer habilitated in psychiatry and psychiatric sociology. In the same year, he completed his training as a psychoanalyst at the Psychotherapeutic Institute in Hanover and moved to Columbia University in New York in 1982. In 1984, he became a professor at the Psychiatric University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf and headed the Department of Psychiatric Sociology at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim from 1987 to 1995. During the same period, he was also Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg. In 2021, Angermeyer received the Salomon Neumann Medal awarded by the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernt-Peter Robra (* 27 July 1950) studied medicine at Hannover Medical School until 1976. From 1985 to 1992, Bernt-Peter Robra was head of the Epidemiology Unit in the Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine at the MHH.

As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation, Bernt-Peter Robra completed the study programs of public health nursing at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Master of Public Health. In the 1980s, he worked primarily in the fields of epidemiology and social medicine, initially at the Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Cologne. From 1992 until his retirement, he headed the Institute for Social Medicine and Health Economics at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. In 2017, the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention awarded him the Salomon Neumann Medal.