Faculty

The Faculty of Medicine Freiburg brings together expertise in research and teaching through its various institutes and facilities. It fulfils its responsibilities in close cooperation with the Medical Center – University of Freiburg, as well as with other faculties, and non-university research institutions.

Freiburg is a great place to live: It is said that there are two types of people in Germany: those who live in Freiburg and those who would like to live in Freiburg.T his city of 230,000 inhabitants in south-western Germany offers excellent conditions for studying and research, combined with a remarkably high quality of life. Freiburg is the most sunny city in Germany, known for the Black Forest and its surrounding vineyards, the medieval cathedral, and the “Bächle” in the old town. At the same time, the “Green City” is a hallmark of sustainable lifestyles and high environmental standards. As a matter of course, students and professors commute to university by bike, and the local soccer club operates a climate-neutral stadium.

City of Freiburg [de]

Freiburg has an international character: The University of Freiburg, as well as the Max Planck and Fraunhofer Institutes, attract students and researchers from all over the world. They shape the international character of the city in lecture halls, laboratories, and cafeterias as well as in the city’s colourful pub and cultural scene. Additionally, Freiburg’s location at the tri-border area of Germany, France and Switzerland promotes cross-border exchange. The University of Freiburg is a member of several strong European alliances and projects:

The regional cross-border campus is a tri-national alliance between the Universities of Freiburg, Basel, Haute-Alsace, Strasbourg, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

EUCOR – The European Campus

The European network of science regions EPICUR comprises eight partner institutions from the European Union. These partners have committed themselves to developing innovative learning and teaching opportunities for their students and staff and to jointly addressing global issues of social relevance through collaborative, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research programmes.

EPICUR – European Partnership for an Innovative Campus Unifying Regions

Students	3,849
Professors (01.10.2024)	120
New Appointments	7
Post-doctoral Lecturing Qualifications (Habilitationen)	38
Doctorates	231
Medical-Theoretical Institutes	8
Clinics at the Medical Center – University of Freiburg	37
Institutes at the Medical Center -University of Freiburg	17
Central Facilities and Services in Medicine	1
Third-Party Funding	105.728,757 EUR
Third-Party Funding/Professor	915,545 EUR
Publications with Impact Factor	2,419
Impact-Factor/Department	9368,874
Collaborative Research Centres	8
Transregio-Collaborative Research Centres	6
Graduate Schools	4
Clusters of Excellence	2
Research Groups	5
Priority Programmes	3
ERC-Grants	12
Horizon-Europe-Projects	18
EU-Collaborative Projects	20
Degree Programmes	Medicine (State Examination) Dentistry (State Examination) Molecular Medicine (B. Sc. / M. Sc.) Nursing Science (B. Sc. / M. Sc.) Midwifery Science (B. Sc.) Medical Sciences – Cardiovascular Research (M. Sc.) Palliative Care (M. Sc.) Biomedical Sciences (M. Sc.) Periodontology and Implant Therapy (M. Sc.) Global Urban Health (M. Sc.)
Medical Center – University of Freiburg
Outpatient Cases	950.646
Inpatient Cases	89.438
Beds	2.179
Medical Professionals/Doctors	1.904
Nursing Staff	4.444
Employees in total	15.127

Status (unless otherwise noted) 2023

2019 The Clinician Scientist Programme is expanded to include the Advanced Clinician Scientist funding line.

2016 Establishment of a Clinician Scientist Programme named the Berta Ottenstein Programme.

2016 Relocation of the Deanery Administration and the Hospital Administration to the building on “Breisacher Staße”.

2014 The position of the Dean becomes a full-time position. Prof. Dr. Krieglstein becomes the first full-time dean.

2010 Start of the Nursing Science programme.

2006 Foundation of the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine within the framework of the Federal Excellence Initiative.

Winter Semester 2001/ 2002 Start of the Molecular Medicine degree programme.

1998 Based on the University Medicine Reform Act, the Faculty Board and Faculty Council are established as new governing bodies of the faculty.

From 1970 Reorganisation of medical training based on the new Medical Licensing Regulations, including the establishment of a six-year training period and a shift towards written examinations.

1960s The number of medical students in Freiburg increases rapidly, leading to the first admission restrictions at the Faculty of Medicine. In the summer semester of 1963, around 3,000 students are enrolled.

After 1953 Overall planning and construction of all further clinic buildings in the “Hugstetter Straße” area.

1948-1953 Reconstruction of the Surgical, Medical, and Gynaecological Clinics.

27.11.1944 Destruction of nearly all institutes and clinics due to a heavy air raid on Freiburg.

1933 Based on the Enabling Act of the Nazi Reich government and by order of the Rectorate of University of Freiburg, Jewish faculty members are dismissed.

1931 Dermatologist Berta Ottenstein becomes the first woman to complete her postdoctoral qualification (habilitation) at the University of Freiburg.

1926-1931 Construction of the Medical and Surgical Clinics on Hugstetter Straße.

1922 Conversion of the garrison hospital in Herdern into a Dermatology Clinic.

1899 The female students enrolling in the winter semester at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Freiburg are the first regularly matriculated female students in the German Reich and later the first women doctors with a German medical license.

1887 Opening of the Psychiatric Clinic on Hauptstraße in the suburb of Herdern.

1868-1911 Establishment of clinics for Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, and Paediatrics, Surgery, and the Polyclinic in what is now known as the Institute District.

1829 Opening of the “Clinical Hospital” on Albertstraße.

1780s The College of the Faculty of Medicine consists of seven professors and one prosector, with a student body approaching 50, which increases to about 100 students per year by the 1790s.

1780 Establishment of a “General Hospital” in the Collegium Sapientiae on Herrenstraße.

1751 The Freiburg Faculty of Medicine proposes to the Vorderösterreich government that the sick poor in the city hospitals, not just in the poor hospital, be treated free of charge and by the professors themselves.

1460 Start of lectures. On April 30, Rector Hummel gives the first medical lecture on the aphorisms of Hippocrates, holding the only chair of medicine for over 15 years.

1457 The Faculty of Medicine is one of the four founding faculties of the University of Freiburg. Archduke Albrecht VI of Austria tasks the Villingen-born physician Matthaeus Hummel with the founding of the faculty and appoints him the first Rector.

Sources:
Eduard Seidler/ Karl-Heinz Leven. Die Medizinische Fakultät der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau. Grundlagen und Entwicklungen. Verlag Karl Alber. Freiburg/ München 2007.

550 Jahre Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Festschrift in 5 Bänden, Verlag Karl Alber. Freiburg/ München 2007.

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