Prof. Dr. Ulf Schmidt

• History of Post-War Europe (East/West)
• History of Medicine and Medical Ethics
• History of Global Health Ethics and Human Rights
• History of Human Experimentation
• History of the Cold War
• History of Modern Germany, 20th and 21st Centuries
• History of Weimar Germany
• History of German National Socialism and the Third Reich
• History of Post-War Germany (GDR/FRG)
• History of Medical War Crimes
• History of Eugenics
• History of Conflict and Violence
• History of Chemical and Biological Weapons
• History of Propaganda

• 2020–present Professor of Modern History, University of Hamburg, Germany
• 2007–2020 Professor of Modern History, University of Kent, Canterbury
• 2019–2020 Research Excellence Framework (REF) Coordinator, School of History / Division of Humanities
• 2015–2018 Director of Research (DoR), School of History 
• 2010–2020 Founding Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine, Ethics and Medical Humanities, University of Kent
• 2005–2007 Senior Lecturer, University of Kent
• 2002–2005 Lecturer (Grade B), University of Kent
• 2001–2002 Lecturer (Grade A), University of Kent
• 1997–2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellows, University of Oxford

Monographien

• Ulf Schmidt, Eden in the East. East Germany, Years of Illusion, 1939-1961 (vol. 1); Years of Disillusion, 1961-1990 (vol. 2) (OUP, Oxford, New York, in progress) 

• Ulf Schmidt, Lotta: A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth Century Germany (in progress)

• Ulf Schmidt (2019), Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments (OUP, Oxford, 2019, paperback edition). 637 pages. ISBN 978-0198833802

• Ulf Schmidt et al. eds. (2019), Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (London, Bloomsbury, 2019) 380 pages. ISBN 978-1788314039

• Schmidt, U. (2015). Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments.  Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

• Schmidt, U. (2009). Hitlers Arzt Karl Brandt: Medizin Und Macht Im Dritten Reich. Aufbau Verlag.

• Schmidt, U. (2007). Karl Brandt, the Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich. London, UK: Continuum.

• Schmidt, U. (2004). Justice at Nuremberg: Leo Alexander and the Nazi Doctors’ Trial. UK: Palgrave/Macmillan.

• Schmidt, U. (2002). Medical Films, Ethics and Euthanasia in Germany, 1933-1945. Germany: Husum, Matthiesen.

Herausgeber

• Ulf Schmidt, James Farley, Will Studdert eds (2026/27), The GDR Goes Global: Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict (Bloomsbury, London, 2026/27, forthcoming)

• Ulf Schmidt, Kate Docking, David Peace eds. (2026), Gender, Sex, and Medicine in Post-War Europe: Beyond Binaries(Bloomsbury, London, 2025/26, contracted, forthcoming)
  
  
• Ulf Schmidt, Will Studdert eds. (2025), Rethinking Cooperation in Cold War Europe. Difficult Friendships across the “Nylon Curtain” (Bloomsbury, London, 2025, contracted, forthcoming)
  
  
• Bretislav Friedrich, Ulf Schmidt, Paul Walker eds., Thirty Years of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Histories, Achievements, Challenges (Berlin, Springer, 2025, in press).

• Ulf Schmidt, Kate Docking, Andreas Frewer, David Peace eds. (2024/25), Leo Alexander at the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial. The Nuremberg Diary and Correspondence (Franz Steiner, Stuttgart, 2025). ISBN: 978-3-515-13858-1
  
  
• Martin Köttering, Ulf Schmidt eds. (2023), Imagining Health. Exhibition Catalogue 2022 (Hamburg, Materialverlag HfBK Hamburg, 2023).
  
  
• Ulf Schmidt, Andreas Frewer, Dominique Sprumont eds. (2020), Ethical Research: The Declaration of Helsinki—Past, Present and Future of Human Experimentation (OUP, Oxford, New York, 2020) 580 pages. ISBN: 9780190224172. Erhältlich unter: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ethical-research-9780190224172?cc=de&lang=en&

• Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Ulf Schmidt, Stefan Goebel eds. (2019), Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (London, Bloomsbury, 2019) 380 pages. ISBN 978-1788314039. Erhältlich unter: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/propaganda-and-conflict-9781788314039/

• Andreas Frewer, Ulf Schmidt eds. (2014), Forschung als Herausforderungen für Ethik und Menschenrechte. 50 Jahre Deklaration von Helsinki, 1964-2014 (Köln, Deutscher Ärzteverlag, 2014). 160 pages. ISBN 978-3-7691-3565-7. Erhältlich unter: https://www.brocher.ch/en/publications/forschung-als-herausforderungen-fur-ethik-und-menschenrechte-50-jahre-deklaration-von-helsinki-1964-2014/

• Frewer, A., Schmidt, U. (2007). Standards Der Forschung. Historische Entwicklung Und Ethische Grundlagen Klinischer Studien [Klinische Ethik. Biomedizin und Praxis, Bd. 1], Peter Lang.

• Ulf Schmidt, Andreas Frewer, eds. (2007), History and Theory of Human Experimentation. The Declaration of Helsinki and Modern Medical Ethics (Franz Steiner, Stuttgart, 2007). 364 pages. ISBN 978-3-515-08862-6

• Ulf Schmidt, David Welch, James Peto, eds., Cold War Science (Bloomsbury, in progress)

• Ulf Schmidt, David Welch, eds., The Holocaust Source Book (London, Routledge, in progress).

Zeitschriftenartikel

• Ulf Schmidt, Will Studdert, Edward Corse (2024), ‘Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Polish Relations through Medical and Scientific Exchanges, 1939-1956’, Slavonic and East European Review (accepted for publication, 2024).
  
  
• Ulf Schmidt (2024), ‘Grounding the history of modern warfare: An extended book review of Peter Thompson’s The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany’, Natural Sciences, 4 (2024), No. 1, 1-4.

• Jonathan Moreno, Judit Sándor, Ulf Schmidt (2022), ‘Autonomy and Social Responsibility: The Post-Pandemic Challenge’, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 65 (2022), No. 3, 426-441. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2022.0035

• Ulf Schmidt (2021), ‘From Nuremberg to Helsinki: Historicising Research Ethics during Health Crisis’, Clinical Evaluation, 49 (2021), Suppl XXXVIII, pp. 149-153.

• Jonathan Moreno, Judit Sándor, Ulf Schmidt (2021), ‘The Vaccination Cold War’, Hastings Centre Journal (2021), 12-17. Erhältlich unter: https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.1282

• Schmidt, U. (2019). Creating a ‘FatherConfessor’: the origins of research ethics committees in UK military medical research, 1950–1970. Part II, origins and organisation. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps [Online] 165:291-297. Erhältlich unter: https://doi.org/10.1136/jramc-2019-001207

• Schmidt, U. (2019). Creating a ‘FatherConfessor’: the origins of research ethics committees in UK military medical research, 1950–1970. Part I, context and causes. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps [Online] 165:284-290. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1136/jramc-2019-001206

• Ulf Schmidt, David Peace (2018), ‘Testing Secret Agents. A Century of Human Experimentation at Porton Down’, History Workshop Journal, 26 September 2018.

• Jonathan Moreno, Ulf Schmidt, Steven Joffe (2017), ‘The Nuremberg Code Seventy Years Later’, Journal of the American Medical Association, 318 (2017), No. 9795, 795-796.

• Jonathan Moreno, Ulf Schmidt (2016), ‘“Testing in the East”: An Episode in Cold War Bioethics’, Clinical Trials and Human Subjects Research, Hastings Bioethics Forum (21 September 2016).

• Ulf Schmidt (2013), ‘Ohne Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben. Hitlers Arzt Karl Brandt’, Damals (April 2013), 24-29. ISSN 0011-5908. Erhältlich unter: http://www.damals.de/de/16/Ohne-Ehrfurcht-vor-dem-Leben.html?issue=189357&aid=189838&cp=1&action=showDetails

• Ulf Schmidt (2007), ‘Turning the History of Medical Ethics from its Head onto its Feet: A Critical Commentary on Baker and McCullough’, in Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 17 (2007), No. 1, 31-42.

• Ulf Schmidt (2006), ‘Cold War at Porton Down: Informed Consent in Britain’s Biological and Chemical Warfare Experiments’, in Cambridge Quarterly for Healthcare Ethics, 15 (2006), No. 4, 366-380. Erhältlich unter: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963180106060488

• Ulf Schmidt (2005), ‘The Scars of Ravensbrück: Medical Experiments and British War Crimes Policy, 1945-1950’, German History, 23 (2005), No. 1, 20–49.

• Ulf Schmidt (2002), ‘Medicina e Nazismo’, in Sistema Salute, 5 (2002), No. 2, 9-18.

• Andreas Frewer, Ulf Schmidt et al. (2001), ‘Zwangsarbeit und Medizin im “Dritten Reich”’, in: Deutsches Ärzteblatt (2001), pp. A-2866-2870. Erhältlich unter: http://www.aerzteblatt.de/archiv/29235/Geschichte-und-Ethik-der-Medizin-Zwangsarbeit-und-Medizin-im-Dritten-Reich

• Ulf Schmidt (2001), ‘Der medizinische Forschungsfilm im Dritten Reich: Seine Institutionalisierung, politische Funktion und ethische Dimension’, Zeitgeschichte, 4 (2001), 200-214.

• Ulf Schmidt (2001), ‘Discussing Slave Labourers in Nazi Germany: Topography of Research or Politics of Memory?’, German History, 19 (2001), No. 3, 408-417. Erhältlich unter: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/026635501680193933

• Ulf Schmidt (1999), ‘Reassessing the Beginning of the “Euthanasia’ Programme“’, German History, 17 (1999), No.4, 543-550.

• Ulf Schmidt (1999), ‘The History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society During National Socialism. Observations on a Three-Day Working Conference organised by the Max Planck Society in Berlin, 10-13 March 1999’, German History, 17 (1999), No.4, 551-557.

• Ulf Schmidt (1997), ‘German Medical War Crimes, Medical Ethics and Post-War Justice: A Symposium held at the University of Oxford to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Medical Trial, 14 March 1997’, German History, 15 (1997), No.3, 385-391.

• Ulf Schmidt (1995), ‘Der medizinische Film in der historischen Forschung’, Mitteilungen aus dem Bundesarchiv, 3 (1995), No.1, 82-84.

Aufsätze

• Ulf Schmidt, David Peace, Will Studdert (2026), ‘Drafting Deontology: Tadeusz Kielanowski and Hans Jonas on the Ethics of Human Experimentation, 1933-1979’, in: Schmidt, U., Studdert, W. (eds.), Rethinking Cooperation in Cold War Europe. Difficult Friendships across the ‘Nylon Curtain’ (London, Bloomsbury, 2026, in press).

• Ulf Schmidt, Will Studdert (2026), ‘Introduction: Difficult Friendships across the “Nylon Curtain”’, in: Schmidt, U., Studdert, W. (eds.), Rethinking Cooperation in Cold War Europe. Difficult Friendships across the ‘Nylon Curtain’ (London, Bloomsbury, 2026, in press).

• Joanne Fox, Ulf Schmidt (2025), ‘Coping with Crisis: Rumours, Science, and Poison Warfare in Inter-War Europe’, in: Friedrich, B., Schmidt, U., Walker, P. (eds.), Thirty Years of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Histories, Achievements, Challenges (Berlin, Springer, 2025, in press).

• Ulf Schmidt (2025): ‘The Holocaust and the Medical Professions’, in: Roseman, M., (ed.), Cambridge History of the Holocaust, vol. 4 (Jockusch, L., Pendas, D., eds.) (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025), pp. 469-491.

• Ulf Schmidt (2025): ‘Thanatology and the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial: Conceptualizing the “Science of Killing”’, in: Reginbogin, H., Breger, M.J. (eds.), Nuremberg Principles and Ukraine: The Contemporary Challenges to Peace, Security, and Justice (Lanham, Lexington Books, 2025), pp. 75-93.

• Ulf Schmidt (2023), ‘From Nuremberg to Helsinki: Historicising the Codification of Post-War Research Ethics’, in: Kurihara, C., Dhai, A., Greco, D. (eds.), Ethical Innovation for Global Health: Pandemic, Democracy and Ethics in Research (Springer, Berlin), pp. 149-174.

• Ulf Schmidt, Martin Köttering (2023), ‘Preface’, in: Köttering, M., Schmidt, U. (eds.), Imagining Health. Exhibition Catalogue 2022 (Hamburg, Materialverlag HfBK Hamburg, 2023), p. 3.

• Ulf Schmidt, Dominique Sprumont; Andreas Frewer (2020): ‘Introduction: The Limits of Altruism’, in: Schmidt, U., Frewer, A., Sprumont, D. (eds.), Ethical Research: The Declaration of Helsinki—Past, Present and Future of Human Experimentation (Oxford, New York, OUP, 2020), pp. 1-43.

• Ulf Schmidt (2020), ‘In the Absence of Alternatives: The Origins and Success of the Helsinki Declaration, 1947-1982’, in: Schmidt, U., Frewer, A., Sprumont, D. (eds.), Ethical Research: The Declaration of Helsinki—Past, Present and Future of Human Experimentation (Oxford, New York, OUP, 2020), pp. 101-130.

• Ulf Schmidt, Markus Wahl (2020), ‘Doctors and Research Behind the Iron Curtain: Medical Ethics Debates and the Declaration of Helsinki in East Germany (1961-1989)’, in: Schmidt, U., Frewer, A., Sprumont, D. (eds.), Ethical Research: The Declaration of Helsinki—Past, Present and Future of Human Experimentation (Oxford, New York, OUP, 2020), pp. 167-189.

• Dominique Sprumont, Ulf Schmidt, Andreas Frewer (2020): ‘Some Reflections on Research Ethics’, in: Schmidt, U., Frewer, A., Sprumont, D. (eds.), Ethical Research: The Declaration of Helsinki—Past, Present and Future of Human Experimentation (Oxford, New York, OUP, 2020), pp. 551-553.

• Ulf Schmidt (2020), ‘Chronopoiesis – The Making of Time’, in: McGrath, D., Project Cleansweep – Beyond the Post-Military Landscape of the United Kingdom, stand-alone essay (Kehrer Verlag, 2020), pp. 200-211.

• Ulf Schmidt et al. eds. (2019), Prologue: ‘Power and Persuasion’: Propaganda into the twenty-first century’, in: (with Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel, Ulf Schmidt eds.), Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2019), pp. 1-12.

• Ulf Schmidt et al. eds. (2019), ‘Part I: The First World War and Inter-war Period’, in: (with Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel, Ulf Schmidt eds.), Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2019), pp. 15-19.

• Ulf Schmidt, Katja Schmidt-Mai (2019): ‘Art under Dictatorship: Propaganda, Plunder, and Provenance’, in: (with Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel, Ulf Schmidt eds.), Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2019), pp. 57-89.

• Ulf Schmidt et al. eds. (2019), ‘Part II: The Second World War’, in: (with Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel, Ulf Schmidt eds.), Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2019), pp. 93-97.

• Ulf Schmidt et al. eds. (2019), ‘Part III: Post-War and Cold War’, in: (with Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel, Ulf Schmidt eds.), Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2019), pp. 185-190.

• Ulf Schmidt (2018), ‘Sozialhygienische Filme und Propaganda in der Weimarer Republik’, in: Baader, G., Peter, J. (eds.), Public Health, Eugenik und Rassenhygiene in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus (Mabuse Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 2018), pp. 79-118.

• Ulf Schmidt (2017), ‘Preparing for Poison Warfare: The Ethics and Politics of Britain’s Chemical Warfare Programme, 1915-1945’, in: Friedrich, B., Schmaltz, F. (eds.), Proceedings of the Symposium “100 Years of Chemical Warfare” (Berlin, 2017), pp. 1-28. Erhältlich unter: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51664-6_6

• Andreas Frewer, Rainer Erices, Ulf Schmidt (2015), ‘Geschichte und Ethik in der DDR-Medizin’, in: Frewer, A., Erices, R. (eds.), Medizinethik in der DDR. Moralische und menschenrechtliche Fragen im Gesundheitswesen (Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015), pp. 205-211.

• Markus Wahl, Ulf Schmidt (2014), ‘Ärzte hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang: Medizinethische Diskurse und die Deklaration von Helsinki in der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 1961-1989’, in: Frewer, A., Schmidt, U. (eds.), Forschung als Herausforderungen für Ethik und Menschenrechte. 50 Jahre Deklaration von Helsinki, 1964-2014 (Köln, Deutscher Ärzteverlag, 2014), pp. 71-86.

• Ulf Schmidt, Andreas Frewer (2014), ‘Geschichte und Ethik der Humanforschung. 50 Jahre Deklaration von Helsinki. Zur Einführung’, in: Frewer, A., Schmidt, U. (eds.), Forschung als Herausforderungen für Ethik und Menschenrechte. 50 Jahre Deklaration von Helsinki, 1964-2014 (Jahrbuch Medizinethik, 2014), pp. 9-13.

• Ulf Schmidt, Andreas Frewer (2014), ‘The Declaration of Helsinki as a Landmark for Research Ethics – Protecting Human Participants in Modern Medicine’, in: Wiesing, U., Parsa-Parsi, R.W., Kloiber, O. (eds.), The World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki, 1964-2014. 50 Years of Evolution of Medical Research Ethics (Köln, Deutscher Ärzteverlag, 2014), pp. 56-57.

• Ulf Schmidt (2014), ‘Karl Brandt, médecin de Hitler’, in: Haddad, L., Dreyfus, J.-M. (eds.), Une médecine de mort. Du code de Nuremberg à l'éthique médicale contemporaine (Vendémiaire Éditions, Paris, 2014), pp. 55-68.

• Ulf Schmidt (2013), ‘Accidents and Experiments: Nazi Chemical Warfare Research and Medical Ethics during the Second World War’, in: Carrick, D.G., Gross, M., eds., Military Medical Ethics (Ashgate, 2013), pp. 225-244.

• Ulf Schmidt (2012), ‘Justifying Chemical Warfare’. The Origins and Ethics of Britain’s Chemical Warfare Programme, 1915-1939’, in: Welch, D., Fox, J., eds., Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age (Palgrave, 2012), pp. 129-158.

• Ulf Schmidt (2012), ‘Reflections on the Origins of the Declaration of Helsinki’, in: Ehni, H.-j., Wiesing, U., eds., Jahrbuch Medizinethik (Deutscher Ärzte Verlag, Stuttgart, 2012), pp. 1-17.

• Schmidt, U. (2011). "Holding One’s Breath": Reflections on the Origins of the Declaration of Helsinki. In: Die Deklaration Von Helsinki: Revisionen Und Kontroversen. Germany: Deutscher Ärzte Verlag, pp. 1-16.

• Schmidt, U. (2011). "Holding Ones’ Breath": Reflections on the Origins of the Declaration of Helsinki. In: Ehni, H.-J. and Wiesing, U. eds. Jahrbuch Medizinethik. Deutscher Ärzte Verlag, pp. 1-17.

• Ulf Schmidt (2009), ‘Medical Ethics and Nazism’, in McCullough, L.B., Baker, R (eds.), The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 595-608.

• Ulf Schmidt (2008), ‘The Scars of Ravensbrück: Medical Experiments and British War Crimes Policy, 1945-1950’, in Heberer, P., Matthaeus, J. (eds.), Atrocities on Trial. Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting German War Crimes (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), pp. 123-157.

• Ulf Schmidt (2007), ‘The Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial and the Nuremberg Code’, in Schmidt, U., Frewer, A., History and Theory of Human Experimentation. The Declaration of Helsinki and Modern Medical Ethics (Franz Steiner, Frankfurt am Main/New York, 2007), pp. 71-116.

• Ulf Schmidt (2007), ‘Medical Ethics and Human Experimentation at Porton Down: Informed Consent in Britain’s Biological and Chemical Warfare Experiments’, in Schmidt, U., Frewer, A., History and Theory of Human Experimentation. The Declaration of Helsinki and Modern Medical Ethics (Franz Steiner, Frankfurt am Main/New York, 2007), pp. 283-313.

• Ulf Schmidt, Andreas Frewer (2007), ‘History and Ethics of Human Experimentation: The Twisted Road to Helsinki’, in Schmidt, U., Frewer, A., History and Theory of Human Experimentation. The Declaration of Helsinki and Modern Medical Ethics (Franz Steiner, Frankfurt am Main/New York, 2007), pp. 7-23.

• Ulf Schmidt, Andreas Frewer (2007), ‘Nuremberg Code of Medical Ethics: Geschichte und Ethik des Ärzteprozesses’, in Frewer, A., Schmidt, U. Standards der Forschung. Historische Entwicklung und ethische Grundlagen klinischer Studien (Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main/New York, 2007), pp. 37-73.

• Andreas Frewer, Ulf Schmidt (2007), ‘Zur Medizinethik des Humanexperiments. Standards und Stand der Forschung’, in Frewer, A., Schmidt, U. Standards der Forschung. Historische Entwicklung und ethische Grundlagen klinischer Studien (Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main/New York, 2007), pp. 7-16.

• Andreas Frewer, Ulf Schmidt, Christine Wolters (2004), ‘Hilfskräfte, Hausschwangere, Untersuchungsobjekte. Der Umgang mit Zwangsarbeitenden in der Universitätsfrauenklinik Göttingen’, in: Frewer, A. and G. Siedbürger. eds. Medizin und Zwangsarbeit im Nationalsozialismus. Einsatz und Behandlung von “Ausländern” im Gesundheitswesen (Frankfurt a.M., New York, 2004), pp. 341-362.

• Ulf Schmidt (2001), ‘Der Ärzteprozeß als moralische Instanz? Der Nürnberger Kodex und das Problem “zeitloser Medizinethik”’, in: Frewer, A., Neumann, J. (eds.), Medizingeschichte und Medizinethik 1900 – 1950 (Göttingen, 2001), pp. 334-373. (ISBN 3-593-36850-1)

• Ulf Schmidt (2001), ‘Die Angeklagten Fritz Fischer, Hans W. Romberg und Karl Brandt aus der Sicht des medizinischen Sachverständigen Leo Alexander’, in Dörner, K., Ebbinghaus, A. (ed.), Vernichten und Heilen: Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozeß und seine Folgen (Berlin, 2001), pp. 374-404. (ISBN 3-351-02514-9)

• Ulf Schmidt (2000), “Der Blick auf den Körper”: Sozialhygienische Filme, Sexualaufklärung und Propaganda in der Weimarer Republik’; Hagener, M. (ed.), Geschlecht in Fesseln. Sexualität zwischen Aufklärung und Ausbeutung im Weimarer Kino 1918 – 1933 (Munich, 2000), pp. 23-46. (ISBN 3-88377-643-2)

• Ulf Schmidt (2000), ‘Kriegsausbruch und “Euthanasie”: Neue Forschungsergebnisse zum “Knauer Kind“ im Jahre 1939’, in Frewer, A., Eickhoff, C. (eds.), “Euthanasie” und die aktuelle Sterbehilfe-Debatte. Die historischen Hintergründe medizinischer Ethik (Frankfurt a/M, New York, 2000), pp. 120-43. (ISBN 3-593-36639-8)

• Ulf Schmidt (2000), ‘Sozialhygienische Filme und Propaganda in der Weimarer Republik’, in Jasbinski, D. (ed.), Gesundheitskommunikation (Wiesbaden, 2000), pp. 53-82. (ISBN 3-531-13427-2)

Ausstellungskataloge

• Martin Köttering, Ulf Schmidt eds. (2023), Imagining Health. Exhibition Catalogue 2022 (Hamburg, Materialverlag HfBK Hamburg, 2023).

Rezensionen

• Ulf Schmidt, Review of Pathogens for War. Biological Weapons, Canadian Life Scientists, and North American Biodefence. Donald Avery, University of Toronto Press 2013, in: Social History of Medicine, 27 (2014), No. 4, 827-829.

• Ulf Schmidt, Review of Die Institutionalisierung der Medizinhistoriographie: Entwicklungslinien vom 19. ins 20. Jahrhundert. Andreas Frewer, Volker Roelcke eds., Steiner, 2001. Social History of Medicine, 16 (2003), No. 1, 147-148.

• Ulf Schmidt, Review of Science in the Third Reich. Margit Szöllösi-Janze (ed.). Berg Publishers, 2001, in: History, 88 (2003), No. 289, 170-171.

• Ulf Schmidt, Review of The Nazi War on Cancer. Robert N. Proctor, Princeton University Press 1999, in: History, 85, (2001), No. 284, 607-608.

• Ulf Schmidt, Review of The Red Cross and the Holocaust. Jean-Claude Faves, edited and translated by John and Beryl Fletcher, in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 75 (2001), 816-818.

• Ulf Schmidt, Review of Anstaltsärzte zwischen Kaiserreich und Bundesrepublik (Kersting) and Psychiatrie und Gesellschaft in der Moderne (Walter), Social History of Medicine, 11 (1998), No.2, 336-337.

• 2024: (with J. Farley; W. Studdert): GDR Goes Glocal. Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict, International conference, University of Hamburg, 13 &14 June 2024.
  
  
• 2023: (with A. Kassabova/J. Sándor/V. Hess): Tensions and Intensions in Post-War Public Health in Europe (ERC Project conference), Brocher Foundation, Switzerland, 17-19 October 2023.
  
  
• 2023: (with B. Friedrich/P. Walker): Thirty Years of Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): Histories, Achievements, Challenges, Harnack-Haus, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max-Planck-Society, Berlin, 5-6 October 2023.

• 2023: (with K. Docking; D. Peace): Beyond Binaries. Gender, Sexuality, and Medicine in Postwar Europe, International conference, University of Hamburg, 9 & 10 June 2023.
  
  
• 2022: (with W. Studdert): Across the Nylon Curtain: Cold War Cooperation and Trans-Systemic Exchanges, International conference, University of Hamburg, 29 September to 1 October 2022.
  
  
• 2022: (with UHH Taming the Leviathan Team): Workshop on Post-War Medicine, Ethics and the Public Sphere, Hamburg University, 6/7 June 2022.
  
  
• 2021: (with UHH Taming the Leviathan Team): Hybrid Workshop on Visions of Health: Exploring Post-War Medicine and Medical Ethics, Hamburg University, 10/11 November 2021.
  
  
• 2021: (with B. Schwappach-Pignataro/K. Grünewald): Online Workshop on Gateways to Health: How Pathogens Shape the World, Hamburg University, 19 February 2021.
  
  
• 2019: (with B. Balmer/C. McLeash): International Workshop on CBW and the Public Sphere, Canterbury Cathedral Precincts, 1-3 May 2019.
  
  
• 2018: (with B. Balmer/C. McLeash): International Workshop on The History of Nerve Agents and the CWC, Canterbury Cathedral Precincts, 1 + 2 May 2018.
  
  
• 2018: (with V. Stoyanova): International Workshop on Post-war Medicine and the European Leviathan, Canterbury Cathedral Precincts, 23 + 24 February 2018.
  
  
• 2014: (with M. Connelly, J. Fox, S. Goebel). International Conference on Propaganda and the Shaping of the 20thCentury. A Symposium in Honour of David Welch, Canterbury Cathedral Precincts, 15 + 16 May 2014.
  
  
• 2013: (with A. Frewer; D. Sprumont). Lead organiser of major externally-funded (Wellcome Trust/Brocher/Thyssen) international conference on Research Within Bounds: Protecting Human Participants in Modern Medicine – The Declaration of Helsinki, 1964-2014 at the Brocher Foundation, Hermance, Switzerland, 12 + 13 September 2013.
  
  
• 2012: Wellcome Trust-funded follow-up expert workshop at the German Historical Institute, Moscow, in preparation for Wellcome Trust exhibition The War of Nerves: Secret Science during the Cold War
  
  
• 2012: Workshop From Nerve Gas to Neurons: Military Medical Research in the Cold War and the War on Terror (jointly with Prof. J.D. Moreno), Department for the History and Sociology of Science and Technology (DHSST), University of Pennsylvania.
  
  
• 2011: Co-organiser of an international expert workshop in preparation for a Wellcome Trust exhibition The War of Nerves: Secret Science during the Cold War (with James Peto and David Welch), Wellcome Collection, May 2011.
  
  
• 2006: Organiser of the expert conference on The History and Ethics of Porton Down: Perspectives and Work in Progress, International Studies Centre, Cathedral Precincts, Canterbury, October 2006.
  
  
• 2004: Co-organiser of the expert conference on The Standards of Research: 40 Years of the Declaration of Helsinki: Progress in Medical Ethics? (with Andreas Frewer), Leibnitzhaus, Hanover, Germany, October 2004

• Taming the European Leviathan
  https://www.ches.uni-hamburg.de/research/leviathan.html

• Knowing Vaccines: Innovative Training Network. Policies, Practices, People
  https://www.knowingvaccines.uni-hamburg.de/about.html

• Kidditorial
  https://kidditorial.de/

• Poisoned Isle
  https://www.ches.uni-hamburg.de/research/poisoned-isle.html

• Medical Utopias in Art
  https://www.ches.uni-hamburg.de/events/exhibitions/hfbk.html