Dieter Mecke

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Dieter Mecke (born March 8, 1933 in Heidelberg ; † May 28, 2013 in Tübingen ) was a German biochemist .

Life

Dieter Mecke was the fourth of nine children of the physicist Reinhard Mecke , after whom the Mecke symbols were named. He studied chemistry in Freiburg until 1959 . He received his doctorate there in 1963 with a biochemical thesis under Kurt Wallenfels . He worked for a year with Fritz Kaudewitz at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin and returned in 1964 to the Biochemical Institute of the medical faculty in Freiburg, where he received his habilitation in biochemistry in 1969. From 1970 to 1971 he was dean and from 1973 professor.

In 1974 he was offered a position at the Physiological-Chemical Institute in Tübingen, today's Interfaculty Institute for Biochemistry (IFIB). From 1980 until his retirement in 2001 he was director of this institute. From 1987 to 1989 he was Dean of the Faculty for Chemistry and Pharmacy in Tübingen and from 1994 to 1999 Vice Rector for Research. He researched the regulation of metabolism and cell reproduction and devoted himself to molecular biological and endocrinological topics as well as enzymology and the differentiation of the liver parenchyma.

In addition, he was chairman of the supervisory board of HB Technologies AG since 2000. He was married and had three children.

Publications

  • Purification and properties of L-histidinol phosphate-2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase (EC 2. 6. 1. 9.) from Salmonella typhimurium. Freiburg i. B., 1963.
  • Regulation of glutamine synthetase in Escherichia coli by enzyme-catalyzed chemical modification. Freiburg i. B., 1969.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A fine musical spirit, a maker and mediator. On the death of Professor Dr. Dieter Mecke an obituary from Hansgeorg Probst
  2. ↑ Obituary notice. ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Schwäbisches Tagblatt dated June 4, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tagblatt.de
personal data
SURNAME Mecke, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2013
Place of death Tübingen