Helmut Altner (biologist)

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Helmut Altner (born July 27, 1934 in Breslau ) is a German biologist , professor emeritus for zoology , science manager and former university rector .

Life

Altner, son of a chemist, grew up in Opladen . He had two brothers. Günter Altner was also a biologist and a theologian , his younger brother is a landscape architect . After graduating from high school in 1954, Altner studied biology , chemistry and geography at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) , funded by the German National Academic Foundation (SddV ). In 1959 he passed the state examination there and earned his doctorate in zoology in 1961 with a thesis on the olfactory sense of amphibians. He was a student of Hansjochem Autrum .

In 1962 he was a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main . From 1963 to 1968 he was an assistant at the Zoological Institute of the LMU. In 1967 he completed his habilitation in zoology. In 1968 he was appointed to the newly created chair for zoology at the University of Regensburg .

From 1976 to 1979 Altner was President of the Association of German Biologists and Bioscientific Societies (vdbiol). Since 1980 he has been a member of the Science Council and works as a science manager specializing in the functional morphology of sensory organs, thermal and hygroreception. In 1989 he was offered the management of the Helmholtz Center in Munich and decided to take the position of rector of the University of Regensburg, which he headed for around twelve years.

From 1993 to 2003 he was President of the German National Academic Foundation. In 1994 he founded the “Pro Arte” university foundation to promote the fine arts at the University of Regensburg. He was inspired by the Regensburg real estate entrepreneur and university foundation founder Johann Vielberth . In 2002 he was one of the four founding fathers of the Bavarian Elite Network . He gave up the chair in 2014. In 2004 he was a founding member of the foundation “The best minds for the University of Regensburg”. In 2006, Minister of State Thomas Goppel appointed him to the newly established Advisory Board for the Bavarian Elite Promotion Act ( BayEFG ) for three years .

Altner has been married to Iris Altner, who holds a doctorate in biology, since 1971. Both are patrons of the Five Continents Museum .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Helmut Wanner: "Let problems fascinate me" , Mittelbayerische Zeitung , July 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c Helmut Altner: Do fish have to be in the Danube? Considerations for the protection of living beings and habitats. In: Biology in Our Time. 12, 1982, p. 33, doi : 10.1002 / biuz.19820120204 . (Author information)
  3. ^ The Presidents 1954 – today , Association of German Biologists and Life Science Societies.
  4. ↑ Louisa Knobloch: University of Regensburg celebrates its "veteran" , Mittelbayerische Zeitung, October 10, 2014.
  5. ↑ University Foundation “The best minds for the University of Regensburg” , Regensburg University Foundation.
  6. ↑ a b Honors and Awards , Annual Report 2006, University of Regensburg.
  7. ↑ Our patrons , Museum Five Continents.
  8. ^ Honorary members , friends of the University of Regensburg.
  9. ↑ Daidalos coin and Daidalos medal ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.studienstiftung.de 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. , Academic Foundation of the german people.
predecessor Office successor
Wolfgang Haupt vdbiol President
1976–1979 		Ulrich Winkler
Manfred Eigen SddV -President
1993-2003 		Gerhard Roth
personal data
SURNAME Altner, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist, zoologist, science manager and university rector
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw