Heinz Röhrer

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Heinz Röhrer (born March  23, 1905 in Leipzig , †  June 13, 1992 in Rathenow ) was a German veterinarian and virologist . From 1948 to 1970 he was president of the research institute for animal diseases on the island of Riems near Greifswald , which was part of the research association of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) , and was the forerunner of today's Friedrich Loeffler Institute . In addition, from 1950 he was professor with a teaching position and from 1960 to 1970 full professor of virology at the University of Greifswald .

Life

Heinz Röhrer was born in Leipzig in 1905 and studied veterinary medicine at the university in his hometown from 1924 to 1928 . After his license to practice as a veterinarian and his doctorate in Leipzig in 1928 on a subject in the field of dog pathology, he worked from 1930 to 1932 as a scientific assistant in the swine fever department of the State Research Institute for Animal Diseases on the island of Riems near Greifswald . He then moved to the University of Freiburg until 1935 , and from 1935 to 1941 he worked for various state veterinary examination offices. In 1941 he was at the University of Cologne habilitation . From 1942 to September 1945 he then worked as a professor and department head and from 1944 as director of the Riemser Research Institute.

After the end of the Second World War , from 1946 to 1948 he was the head of the Rottenau production facility of the serum works in Dessau, which had been created by the Anhaltisches Serum-Institut Dessau (ASID) . In 1948 he became president of the newly founded institute on the Riems as the “Research Institute for Animal Diseases”, which from 1952 was named Friedrich Loeffler Institute . After the founding of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences (DAL) took over the sponsorship of the institute. In 1950, Heinz Röhrer received a professorship with a teaching position at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald , ten years later he was appointed full professor of virology there. From 1959 he was chairman of the working group for serums , vaccines and organ preparations at the Research Council of the GDR . He retired in 1970 and died in Rathenow in 1992 .

Scientific work

Heinz Röhrer published around 100 scientific publications on experimental veterinary medicine and the control of animal diseases . His main achievement is the rebuilding of the research institute on the island of Riems, the equipment of which was almost completely withdrawn after the Second World War due to reparations . In addition, he was significantly involved in the establishment of the mandatory vaccination against foot and mouth disease in the GDR and in the development of an effective vaccine against swine fever.

Political commitment

Heinz Röhrer was a member of the NSDAP from 1931 and of the Christian Democratic Union of the GDR from 1951 , of which he was a member from 1954 on. From 1954 to 1963 he was a member of the People's Chamber .

Awards

Heinz Röhrer received the National Prize of the GDR in 1951 and 1954 and the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in 1956 . As a full member of the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences, he was secretary of the veterinary medicine section from 1957 to 1969. In addition, from 1955 he was a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, the later Academy of Sciences of the GDR , and from 1957 of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . The universities in Leipzig (1960) and Greifswald (1965) awarded him an honorary doctorate . In addition, he was a member or honorary member of various national and international scientific associations, including the Royal Society of Medicine and the Polish Academy of Sciences . In 1991 the Leopoldina awarded him the Cothenius Medal for his life's work .

Works

  • The viral diseases in farm animals. Berlin 1953.
  • Atlas of the pathological-anatomical and histological diagnosis of swine fever. Jena 1960 (as co-author).
  • The main viral diseases of domestic animals. Berlin 1962.
  • Foot and mouth disease. Jena 1980 (as co-author).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bundesarchiv Berlin , R 4901/13274 index card Röhrer
  2. ^ Neue Zeit , May 8, 1956, p. 1

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personal data
SURNAME Röhrer, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian and virologist, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1992
Place of death Rathenow