In case of illness you need to send a short notice by email to the department administration PolSoz (Ms. Jargstorf): e-mail: Urlaub-AU@polsoz.fu-berlin.de.

Since the secretariat office must be informed, you should include in cc field sozkultanth@polsoz.fu-berlin.de, together with the email address of your superior professor and, given the case, the email address of the person who will take over your partial representation.

Here is a sample you can use for this notice:

"Dear Ms. Jargstorf, I would like to inform you that I am sick from ../../... (date).

Kind regards
First name Name"

After three days of absence from work, you need to present a medical certificate. You can send the certificate in advance as a scanned email attachment to the above mentioned email addresses. In any case, you must send the original of the certificate to FB PolSoz to following address:

Freie Universität Berlin
FB Politik und Sozialwissenschaften
Abteilung Krankmeldungen
Ihnestr. 21
14195 Berlin

This also applies to any follow-up certificates, health report on the day you return to work, you must send an email with the subject “health report” to the above email addresses. Sample text:

"Dear Ms. Jargstorf,

After reporting me sick on.., I resumed work on ../../... (date).

Kind regards,

First name Name"

Note: It is absolutely necessary to inform the department that you are healthy again, otherwise you will continue to be considered sick and there will be corresponding inquiries from the PolSoz department.