| 1944 | Born in Memel/East Prussia (now Klaipeda/Lithuania) |
| 1950-54 | elementary school in Bamberg, then Würzburg |
| 1954-64 | grammar/high school in Würzburg, then Mönchengladbach (school-leaving exam 1964); private tutor; many different holiday jobs |
| 1964-65 | 2 semesters economy at Hamburg University |
| 1965-66 | training and work as a programmer at the August-Thyssen steelworks (Duisburg) and Commerzbank (Düsseldorf) |
| 1966-72 | study of psychology at the universities of Cologne, Bochum, and Westberlin;
subsidiary subject sociology;
student tutor for learning psycholgy in Bochum; pre-diploma 1968 in Bochum; practical training in an advertising agency, and at the pedagogical center (PZ) Berlin; student tutor for statistics at the Free University (FU) Berlin; student employee in a research project (APIA: workgroup for programmed instruction in architecture teaching; sponsored by VW-foundation), at the architecture faculty of the Technical University (TU) Berlin; empirical diploma-study on the job profile of industrial designers; diploma 1972 in Berlin |
| 1972-77 | part-time teaching assistant for empirical research & statistics at the Institute of Pedagogics of the FU Berlin;
at the same time, part-time lecturer for theory of science at the Psychological Institute of the FU; contract-work for the BIBB (federal institute for research on occupational education) |
| 1976 | marriage to Ulrike Schneider;
birth of our son Kris; doctorate in psychology with "summa cum laude" on the experiment |
| 1977-84 | monography "Das Experiment in der Psychology" (the experiment in psychology) 1977;
researcher at the WZB (Wissenschafszentrum Berlin; Science Center Berlin), in an empirical study on industrial work and myocardial infarction (sponsored by BMFT, Federal Ministry of Reearch and Technology); monography "Soziale Ursachen des Herzinfarkts" (social causes of myocardial infarction) (1982); preparation of an empirical study on health-effects of occupational down-grading |
| 1980 | birth of our son Mirko |
| 1981 | habilitation in psychology at the FU |
| 1984-2007 | professor of soial medicine (since 2003: health science & social policy) at the faculty of social education of the Fachhochschule (FH, Advanced Technical College; later: HAW, University of Applied Science) Hamburg |
| since 1984 | work with occupational and environmental grass-roots groups (1984-2002);
monography "Nervenschädigung am Arbeitsplatz" (nerve damage at the workplace) (1988); consultant in occupational disease lawsuits (1988-98); empirical study on AIDS, with two colleagues from the FH, for the BMFT (1989-91) |
| since 1990 | 3 months as "temporary consultant" at the Regional Office/Europe of the WHO (Copenhagen),
occupational safety department (1991);
monography on "Arbeitsstoffe und Herzkreislauf-Erkrankungen" (cardiovascular diseases by workplace chemicals) (1992); feasability study on the establishment of a curriculum in health science at the FH Hamburg (1993); 8 months as "visiting scholar" at the School of Public Health, University of Washington (Seattle), epidemiology department (1995-6) |
| since 1996 | monography "Handbuch Chemikalienunverträglichkeit (MCS)" (handbook multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS)) (1996);
empirical MCS study for the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung (a trade-union foundation) (1996-7); testimonial on "evaluation controversies in environment & health with relevance for preventive policies" (1997, with Rolf Rosenbrock/WZB); 12 months sabbatical (1999-2000): monography "Psychisch gestört oder arbeitsbedingt krank?" (psychic disturbance or work-induced disease?); 5-months stay in Seattle; monography "Umweltgerechtigkeit, Public health und soziale Stadt" (environmental justice, public health and social city) (2001) |
| since 2002 | design of a personal website (Maschewsky.de) (2002);
empirical study on environmental justice in Hamburg (2002-3); vice dean of the faculty (2002-5); internal evaluation report of the faculty (2003); 2 months Edinburgh, to evaluate the Scottish environmental justice policy for Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES) (2005); design of an environmental justice website (Umweltgerechtigkeit.de) (2005) |
| 2006 | severe heart surgery |
| 2007 | early retirement | since 2007 | traveling; work with environmental NGOs; work on fracking, TTIP, etc. |
| 2018/9 | several cardiac stents |