Johannes Willenbrink
Johannes Willenbrink (born March 3, 1930 in Berlin ; † June 17, 2008 in Bad Honnef ) was a German biologist .
Life
Johannes Will Brink studied biology and chemistry at the University of Bamberg and was 1956 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn with a thesis on the inhibition of mass transport in the sieve tubes by local inactivation of various respiratory enzymes at W. Schumacher Dr. rer. nat. PhD . From 1957 to 1960 he worked in the pharmacological department at Berliner Schering AG . From 1961 Willenbrink was assistant, lecturer and adjunct professor at the Botanical Institute of the University of Bonn. In 1964 he completed his habilitation with the text on the metabolism of sulfur compounds in the higher plant . In 1971 Willenbrink was appointed full professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Institute for Botany at the University of Cologne , and was also director of the Botanical Institute at the University of Cologne. From 1986 to 1988 he was dean of the faculty.
Until 2002 he was a board member of KölnPUB - Audience and Biotechnology eV He was deputy chairman of the Association of Friends of the Botanical Garden in Cologne .
His research areas were the transport of substances in plants, for example. the assimilation of carbon and the assimilate transport in conifers under the influence of air pollutants and the physiological methods for the early indication of new types of forest damage to spruce trees ; The specialty was the photosynthesis of benthic algae.
Since 1949 he was a member of the Catholic student union KDSt.V. Fredericia Bamberg in the CV .
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| SURNAME | Willenbrink, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 2008 |
| Place of death | Bad Honnef |