
Department of Social Work and Health
Profile
The Department of Social Work and Health brings together expertise from very different disciplines. These include the classic social sciences such as social pedagogy, psychology, pedagogy, sociology and empirical social research. Another area of focus is the health sciences, medicine, health psychology and nutrition. But law, business administration and ergonomics are represented as well. In addition, international social work and human rights play important roles.
Programs in German
Bachelor's Programs
Master's Programs
Location
The Department of Social Work and Health is on the main campus at Friedrich-Streib Street. Lecture halls, seminar rooms, laboratories and offices are here.
Department Management

Prof. Dr. Susanne Gröne
T. +49 (0)9561 317-182 / 520
Room 10-131susanne.groene[at]hs-coburg.de
Academic Staff
- Prof. Dr. Christiane Alberternst
- Prof. Dr. Michaela Axt-Gadermann
- Pascal Bächer
- Prof. Björn Bicker
- Prof. Dr. Ralf Bohrhardt
- Prof. Dr. Eckardt Buchholz-Schuster
- Prof. Dr. Harry Conrads
- Torsten Dohnalek, M.A.
- Kerstin Eichhorn-Wehnert, Dipl.-Sozialpäd. (FH)
- Isabella Ettlich, Dipl.-Sozialpäd. (FH)
- Prof. Dr. Susanne Gröne
- Prof. Dr. Hellen Gross
- Prof. Dr. Veronika Hammer
- Prof. Dr. Holger Hassel
- Verena Heer
- Prof. Dr. Nicole Hegel
- Prof. Dr. Pamela Heise
- Prof. Dr. Daniel Herbe
- Prof. Dr. Susann Hößelbarth
- Gerald Jose, Dipl.-Psych. et Theol.
- Prof. Dr. Niko Kohls
- Prof. Dr. Christine Kröger
- Prof. Dr. Michael Lichtlein
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lohrenscheit
- Prof. Dr. Karin Meißner
- Michaela Musenja, Dipl.-Sozialpäd. (FH)
- Prof. Dr. Eberhard Nöfer
- Ralf Probst, Dipl. M/ML
- Dominik Oesterreicher, Dipl.-Sozialpäd. (FH)
- Dr. Gunda Rohbeck
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Rutz
- Matthias Scheibe, M.A. (Sozial- und Erziehungswissenschaft)
- Prof. Dr. Andrea Schmelz
- Mathias Stübinger, Dipl.-Sozialpäd. (FH)
- Prof. Dr. Michael Vogt
- Beate Weigle, Dipl.-Sozialpäd. (FH)
- Martina Wiedermann, Dipl.-Sozialpäd. (FH), Dipl.-Päd.