UKE boss Debatin leaves university hospital

UKE boss Debatin leaves University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf

29/06/2011

The head of the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) clears his post prematurely and goes into the economy. According to media reports, Professor Jörg Debatin will leave the UKE one year before the end of his actual contract period on 30 September this year. The reason for the premature departure from the UKE is the tense relationship with his superior, the Senator of Science Dorothee Stapelfeldt.

After eight years as head of the UKE, Professor Jörg Debatin now leaves the university hospital one year before the expiration of the actual contract period and changes to the business world. According to media reports, the 50-year-old Christian Democrat will vacate his post at the end of September due to the strained relationship with the Hamburg Senator of Science Dorothee Stapelfeldt (SPD). the „Hamburg evening paper“ According to a corresponding termination agreement with the city to follow. On the part of the Hamburg Science Authority, which is responsible for the supervision of the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, no official statement has yet been issued on the current process. This is planned for Thursday, according to current media reports.

Conflict with the Senator for Science Reason to leave?
Experts suspect that the medical director and chairman of the UKE would probably resign his posts before the end of the actual contract period, just after the new Hamburg Science Senator Dorothee Stapelfeldt took office about three months ago. For Stapelfeldt (SPD) and Debatin (member of the CDU Economic Council) have in the past already fierce feuds in the Hamburg Science Committee, resulting in a manifest to this day aversion. The SPD woman and the CDU man rattled against each other again and again - most recently when Debatin criticized the Science Senator in a letter to the public for the lack of involvement of his person in the removal of UKE supervisory boards and the replacement of the UKE Supervisory Board. The equally recognized as vexing UKE boss criticized in his letter the „demotivating“ and „little appreciative“ Treatment by the Senate. That the constellation with Stapelfeldt and Debatin would not go well in the long run, could at least guess at this point. Now, the UKE boss has nevertheless decided a little faster for the farewell, as initially assumed.

From the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf in the economy
According to reports of the transmitter „NDR 90.3“ From 30 September, Professor Jörg Debatin will take over the management of the laboratory service provider Amedes AG based in Göttingen and Düsseldorf. However, the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) merely confirmed that the medical director and chairman of the management board was „a new, more entrepreneurial task“ to turn to wool. For this afternoon, a press conference is planned on the Debatin will announce more detail, said a spokeswoman for the UKE. The prompt departure of the UKE chief suggests, however, that not only the disputes with the Hamburg Senator of Science are an occasion for the premature eviction of the post, but that there is a correspondingly lucrative offer from the economy that Debatin has made the decision much easier. Although it is likely that the Christian Democrat, not least because of the antipathy to the Senator for Science, will criticize what he considers to be intolerable conditions, at least to the outside world, but the economic aspect or the opportunity to take the next career step at the age of 49 is likely have played a not insignificant role in the decision to terminate his employment contract early. (Fp)