Herbert Hill

Herbert Hügel (born October 28, 1905 in Leipzig , † May 17, 1988 in Riedstadt ) was a German pharmacist and editor-in-chief of the Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung .

Life

Hill was a student of the Leipzig pharmacist and food chemist Conrad Stich (1864–1953) in the Kreuz pharmacy. After the pre-exam (1927) and the assistant year completed in Celle and Grimma, he studied pharmacy at the University of Leipzig from 1928 to 1930 .

He worked as a practical pharmacist in Hildesheim, Chemnitz and Leipzig. In 1935 he joined the editorial staff of the Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung in Berlin, where he became deputy chief editor in 1937. He took part in the war as a pharmacist. After working briefly in the Schloß-Apotheke in Celle, he continued his career as a journalist and editor in 1948. He joined the editorial team of the Süddeutsche Apotheker Zeitung in Stuttgart, where he became editor-in-chief in 1973. In 1976 he retired in Riedstadt.

Since 1961 he was also authorized signatory of the German Pharmacist Publishing House, in which he published a number of specialist books. He devoted himself to the history of pharmacy and in 1958 became Secretary General of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy (IGGP), in which he and Georg Edmund Dann (1898–1979) made outstanding contributions to the organization of major international congresses. From 1955 to 1967 he edited the publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy . In 1966 he was awarded the Ludwig Winkler plaque by the IGGP.

literature

• Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung 110 (1970), p. 1641
• Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung 125 (1985), p. 2258
• Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung 128 (1988), p. 1138
• Paul-Herrmann Berges: On the death of Herbert Hügel, pp. 17–18; Contributions to the history of pharmacy, supplement to the Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung, Stuttgart vol. 40 (1988), no. 2/3