Werner Scheler

Werner Scheler
Born(1923-09-12)12 September 1923
Coburg, Bavaria, Germany
Died9 October 2018(2018-10-09) (aged 95)[1]
Occupation(s)Academic (Pharmacology)
University rector (Greifswald: 1966–1970)
Party Central Committee Member (SED: 1979–1989)
Political partyNSDAP (1941–1945)
KPD(1945–1946)
SED (1946–1989)

Werner Scheler (12 September 1923 – 9 October 2018)[1] was a German physician and pharmacologist.[2]

Between 1959 and 1971 he worked at the University of Greifswald where he served as the Director of the university's Institute of Pharmacology and as a teaching professor in his subject, subsequently also becoming the University Rector following the death of Georg Tartler [de].[3] Later, between 1979 and 1990, Scheler was the penultimate president of the (East) German Academy of Sciences.[3][4]

Like many leading academics in the German Democratic Republic, Werner Scheler also pursued a career in national politics. At the end of 1978 he was elected to membership of the powerful Party Central Committee.[3]

  1. ^ a b Peter Oehme (compiler) (17 October 2018). "Nekrolog auf unser Mitglied Werner Scheler". Die Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V. trauert um ihr Mitglied, den Pharmakologen und Molekularbiologen Prof. Dr. Werner Scheler der am 09. Oktober 2018 im Alter von 95 Jahren verstorben ist. Die Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Werner Scheler .... Kurzbiographie". Mitglieder der Vorgängerakademien der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. This source also includes a photo-portrait of Werner Scheler. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  3. ^ a b c Hubert Laitko. "Scheler, Werner * 12.9.1923 Pharmakologe, Präsident der AdW, Rektor der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald". Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  4. ^ Werner Hartkopf (1992). Die Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften: ihre Mitglieder und Preisträger 1700-1990. Akademie Verlag. ISBN 9783050021539.