Gerhart Drews

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Gerhart Drews (born May 30, 1925 in Berlin ) is a German microbiologist and emeritus professor.

Life

The son of a teacher grew up in Berlin, where he graduated from high school in 1943. He then volunteered for a career as a military doctor in the Air Force. After working in Poland, he served in the Wehrmacht in the Netherlands in the medical service.

In 1946 Drews began studying biology, geography and chemistry as a teacher at the University of Halle . Influential teachers were the botanists Hermann Meusel , Werner Rothmaler and Kurt Mothes as well as his later doctoral supervisor Johannes Buder . He also attended lectures by the zoologist Erich Menner and the plant geneticist Hans Stubbe . In geography, Drews has given lectures and excursions to Otto Schlüter and Hans Gallwitz .

In 1951 Drews passed the state examination and then took up studies on the phototaxis of blue-green algae with Johannes Buder, with whom he received his doctorate in 1953. From 1953 to 1960 he was a research assistant at the Central Institute for Microbiology and Experimental Therapy in Jena with Hans Knöll and completed his habilitation in 1960 at the University of Halle.

In 1961 he fled the GDR and in the same year got a job as a private lecturer at the University of Freiburg , where he was appointed to the newly established chair for microbiology in 1964. Drew's international reputation is evident through guest stays at Harvard University , the University of California, Los Angeles and Indiana University Bloomington .

His main areas of research are the structure, function and genetics of bacterial membrane structures, movement physiology of cyanobacteria , formation of reserve substances in mycobacteria and the fine structure of phototrophic bacteria.

Drews had assumed the office of dean several times. In 1969/70 he was the last dean of the "Natural Science and Mathematics Faculty" of the University of Freiburg, under whose roof all natural science chairs and institutes were combined. Under his direction, the old faculty was divided into several new faculties, such as the faculties of mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography and biology. Three institutes were established in the latter. The Chair of Microbiology, which belonged to the Institute for Biology II, was established by Drews and headed it until his retirement in 1993.

After his retirement, Drews focused in particular on the history of science. Among other things, he has published works on Anton de Bary , who was also a professor in Freiburg during his career.

Honors

  • 2001: Honorary member of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology eV
  • Dr. hc
  • Werner Heisenberg Medal 1997

Fonts

  • To the knowledge of the phototaxis of some Cyanophyceae. Dissertation. University of Halle 1953.
  • Metachromatic and cytological studies on the formation and degradation of metachromatic granules in mycobacteria. Habilitation thesis. University of Halle 1959.
  • Microbiological internship. 4th edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo 1983, ISBN 3-540-11836-5 .
  • Anton de Bary, an important biologist, taught in Freiburg, Halle and Strasbourg. In: Freiburg University Gazette. 149. Rombach, Freiburg 2000, pp. 5-25.
  • Metabolic Cycles in Prokaryotic Societies. In: Naturwiss. Rundschau. 63, pp. 285-295.
  • with Günter Adam, Cornelia Heinze: Molecular Plant Virology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Hong Kong, London, Milan, Paris, Tokyo 2004, ISBN 3-540-00661-3 .
  • Reflections of a biologist on his time (= series of memoirs. Volume 47). Kovač, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-8300-0605-5 .
  • with JW Lengeler, HG Schlegel: Biology of the Prokaryotes. Thieme, Stuttgart, New York 1999.
  • Microbiology. The discovery of the invisible. Springer, Heidelberg 2010 / 2nd revised and expanded edition: "Bacteria - their discovery and importance for nature and humans", Springer, Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3-662-45326-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gerhart Drews is 60 years old . In: Archives of Microbiology , Vol. 141, No. 4, p. 271, doi : 10.1007 / BF00428835
  2. ↑ Inventory B 0015 - Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics 1892-1971. P. 7. 13. ( Online )
  3. ↑ Institute for Biology II - Structural Change, Personnel Structure & Scientific Profile. ( Online ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.biologie.uni-freiburg.de
  4. ^ Anton de Bary, a Pioneer of Modern Mycology . In: FEMS Circular 55, January 2004. ( Online ; PDF; 822 kB)
  5. ↑ List of honorary members
  6. ^ Page at the Institute for Biology II, Microbiology of the University of Freiburg

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personal data
SURNAME Drews, Gerhart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drewx, Karl Ludwig Gerhart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German microbiologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin