Hermann H. Dieter

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Hermann H. Dieter (born January 19, 1945 in Spaichingen ) is a German biochemist and toxicologist who has mainly dealt with the toxicology of drinking water ingredients. For many years he was head of the “Toxicology of Drinking and Bathing Pool Water ” department at the German Federal Environment Agency , before that at the Institute for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene .

Life

Dieter grew up in Tübingen. From 1967 to 1972 he studied biochemistry in Tübingen and Marburg. After graduating as a qualified biochemist, he went to the University of Konstanz, where he received his doctorate in 1976. His dissertation was awarded Summa cum laude and the Byk Gulden Prize . From 1977 to 1985 Dieter worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Toxicology at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf with Friedrich Karl Ohnesorge in the field of biochemical toxicology. He went to the United States for two longer research stays . In 1985 he qualified as a professor in the subject “Biochemical Toxicology”. In July 1986 Dieter became head of the “Toxicology of Drinking and Bathing Pool Water ” department at what was then the Institute for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene (Wabolu), which has been part of the Federal Environment Agency since 1994. Since 2001 he has been a lecturer at the TU Berlin for the subject “Toxicology for Chemists”.

Technical work

At WaBoLu and at the Federal Environment Agency, Dieter dealt with the health and drinking water hygiene assessment of arsenic , antimony , heavy metals , nitrate , bromate , pesticides and compounds typical of explosives. Another focus was the evaluation of copper in self-supply systems that are not connected to the usual drinking water network - at that time there were several cases of early childhood liver cirrhosis , some with deaths. He also worked on trihalomethanes , which are produced as by-products of the chlorination of pool water and drinking water.

In an article on his 60th birthday it is said that Dieter's great merit is to have made "essential contributions to the creation of a rational and transparent system for deriving health-related assessment values" in drinking water hygiene, while such assessment values ​​were previously hardly justified.

Work on language education

Hermann H. Dieter is the deputy chairman of the German as a scientific language working group , which opposes the displacement of German as a scientific language in favor of English. Dieter is also the deputy chairman of the German Language Association in the Berlin / Potsdam region.

literature

  • Ulrich Ewers, Martin Exner , Rainer Konietzka, Ludwig Müller, Georg Tuschewitzki, Michael Wilhelm: Dr. habil. Hermann H. Dieter , in: Environmental Medicine Research Practice 15 (1) 2010, pp. 63–64.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Christmas letter of the German language association  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 40 kB) from 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vds-ev-berlin.de  
personal data
SURNAME Dieter, Hermann H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German toxicologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Spaichingen