Albert Schmierer

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Gottfried Christian Albert Schmierer , nickname Albert Schmierer , (born November 28, 1899 in Esslingen am Neckar , † July 14, 1974 in Freudenstadt ) was a German pharmacist ; from 1933 to 1945 he was "Reichsapothekerführer".

Life

Albert Schmierer, son of a teacher, passed his Abitur in Tübingen in 1917 and took part in the First World War as a war volunteer until 1918 . Schmierer was then initially a member of a volunteer corps . He began his pharmaceutical apprenticeship in Schwaigern in 1919 , passed his pre- exam in Stuttgart in 1920 , worked for almost a year in Heilbronn and studied pharmacy at the University of Tübingen from 1921 to 1923 . After the state examination in 1923 he worked for a year and a half in the Hof pharmacy in Stuttgart and then three semesters as assistant to Richard Harder at the Botanical Institute of the TH Stuttgart .

In 1926 Schmierer went to Heldburg and stayed there as a pharmacist for five years. As early as 1929 he became a member of the NSDAP and the SA , bought the Löwen pharmacy in Freudenstadt in 1930 and in 1933 was appointed commissioner for the Gau Baden and Württemberg as well as commissioner for the Württemberg pharmacists.

After the establishment of the "Standesgemeinschaft Deutscher Apotheker" in April 1933, Schmierer was initially deputy of the stand manager Karl Heber and in September took over the business of the stand management as a stand manager (from 1935 "Reichsapothekerführer"). His pharmacy was named a NS model company in 1938, in 1940 he was promoted to Oberstabs-Apotheker and in 1942 to SA group leader.

Albert Schmierer was a staunch National Socialist . During his activity as Reichsapothekerführer he introduced a large number of innovations and changes in German pharmacy, some of which have outlived the Third Reich. As early as March 1933, he prepared the first lease law, which was passed as a Reich law in 1935. In 1936 he created the Reichsapotheker Register and the Institute for Drug Testing. In 1937 he founded an academy for further pharmaceutical training, introduced the country half-year for pharmacy candidates and ensured the introduction of the Gothic A as a symbol of the German Pharmacists' Association. He also enforced that the inventory in the pharmacy was only to be made every 3 years. Also in 1937 he founded the " German Pharmacy Museum " based in Munich , whose first caretaker was Fritz Ferchl . In 1940, Schmierer campaigned for a uniform definition of the area of ​​activity of the pharmacy assistant .

It was on his initiative that since January 1, 1937, the uniform labeling of pharmacies with the red Gothic “A” and the man rune went back. In 1951, the rune, which had meanwhile been painted over by many pharmacists, was replaced with the symbol of the Handelsgesellschaft Deutscher Apotheker (Hageda), a chalice with a snake.

At the end of the war, Schmierer served as a major on the Eastern Front, was taken prisoner by the Americans in May 1945, from which he was released in 1947. Schmierer then worked as a pharmacist in Rattingen and Ruhrort, and was then sent by a military tribunal to prison for 18 months, from which he was released in October 1948. Schmierer then worked as a pharmacist in Lennep. After his denazification he worked again in his pharmacy in Freudenstadt from 1950.

Publications

  • National Socialism . In: Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung 48 (1933), p. 1181.
  • State and status . In: Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung 49 (1934), p. 698 f.
  • In the pillory . In: Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung 50 (1935), p. 1002.
  • Recipe and finished products . In: Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung 54 (1939), p. 144 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Huwer: 55 years of pharmacy A. Birthday of a classic , Pharmazeutische Zeitung Online, issue 50/2006.
personal data
SURNAME Schmierer, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmierer, Gottfried Christian Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Reichsapothekerführer
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1974
Place of death Freudenstadt