Elsa Ullmann

Elsa Ullmann (born February 20, 1911 in Potsdam , † January 24, 2010 in Munich ) was a German pharmacist . She was the first female German professor and mentor of German pharmaceutical technology . She also supported the establishment of the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Munich Institute for Pharmacy and Food Chemistry.

Life

Ullmann spent her school days in Potsdam and graduated from high school in 1930. In January 1931 she began an internship in a pharmacy in Bartenstein . In Koenigsberg she passed the pre-exam in December 1932 and in her hometown Potsdam the required year as pre-exam assistant. Elsa Ullmann then began studying pharmacy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in the summer semester of 1934 . The institute directors at the time were Carl Mannich and Hans Paul Kaufmann .

Ullmann passed her pharmaceutical state examination in March 1936. In 1939 she applied for an extraordinary assistant position at the Pharmaceutical Department of the Chemistry Institute at the University of Tübingen , where she began her doctoral thesis on lipases in higher plants with Eugen Bamann . In addition to her scientific work, Elsa Ullmann was a teaching assistant from 1939 to 1941, supervised the analytical-chemical internship and took part in incorporating pharmaceutical technology into the classroom.

Ullmann received further training during her doctoral thesis in Tübingen from the chemist Wilhelm Schlenk . After the beginning of the Second World War, she expanded her teaching activities in galenics and in chemical internship. In October 1941 Ullmann received his doctorate in Tübingen with the thesis "Investigations on the lipase of higher plants". In 1941 she followed Eugen Bamann to the Pharmaceutical Institute of the University of Prague , where she worked as a research assistant until April 30, 1945.

After the Pharmaceutical Institute was handed over to the Czechs after the end of the Second World War, Eugen Bamann and Elsa Ullmann were arrested and taken prisoner. In April 1946 she was released from captivity and moved to Kassel to live with relatives and worked as a "chemist" in the American General Hospital. Afterwards Elsa Ullmann became an intern at the official food inspection agency at the agricultural inspection office in Kassel-Harleshausen.

In the summer semester of 1948, Ullmann took up a position as a research assistant at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There she organized and helped to set up the destroyed Institute for Pharmacy and Food Chemistry and held numerous internships and lectures for the students. In 1951, together with Eugen Bamann, she wrote the textbook Chemical Analysis of Medicinal Mixtures, Medicinal Specialties and Toxins . In 1953 Ullmann was appointed senior assistant, habilitated in the same year with the thesis “Vegetable lipases” for pharmaceutical technology and was appointed private lecturer. This made her the first post-doctoral candidate in Germany in this field.

In May 1956, Ullmann became head of the department for pharmaceutical technology at the Munich University Institute for Pharmacy and Food Chemistry. In 1961 she was appointed adjunct professor. In 1977 she took over the chair for pharmaceutical technology there. Her main area of ​​work was pharmaceutical excipients. In spring 1979, her official duties in the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Institute for Pharmacy and Food Chemistry at the University of Munich ended.

In 2013, in memory of its honorary member Elsa Ullmann, the German Pharmaceutical Society donated the Elsa Ullmann Medal to members who have made a special contribution to the further development of the pharmaceutical profession.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerhard Winter: On the death of Prof. Dr. Elsa Ullmann, Pharmaceutical Technology, Munich ; in: Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung , February 4, 2010, accessed on March 20, 2017
2. ^ Klaus Beneke: Elsa Ullmann. November 24, 2005, accessed on March 18, 2017 (German). 
3. ^ Klaus Beneke: Elsa Ullmann. November 24, 2005, accessed on March 18, 2017 (German).