Klaus Ring

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Klaus Ring in front of the Presidential Gallery of the Polytechnic Society (2008)

Klaus Ring (born February 25, 1934 in Cologne ) is a German microbiologist . From 1986 to 1994 he was the fourth president of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

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Ring studied microbiology and biochemistry at the universities of Göttingen , Frankfurt am Main and Kiel and received his doctorate in Kiel in 1962. 1968 followed the habilitation and the venia legendi for general physiological chemistry in Frankfurt am Main. After several stays abroad, Ring received a call to the newly created professorship for microbiological chemistry in the medicine department at Goethe University in 1971. This activity included the management of the department of the same name at the Gustav Embden Center for Biological Chemistry. Ring's scientific focus during this time was on the structure and function of biological membranes. Stays abroad have led him to work as a British Council visiting professor at the Biochemistry Department of the University of Hull (1974) and as a visiting scientist at the Biochemical Laboratory of the University of Utrecht (1978–1979). The European Journal of General Microbiology appointed him to its Advisory Board.

From 1980 to 1986, Klaus Ring served in Frankfurt as vice dean for preclinical and research, as a board member of the university clinic and as a member of the university senate. In 1986 he was elected President of the Goethe University. From 1988 to 1994 he was also Vice President of the Rectors' Conference (1988 to 1991 Vice President for Organization and Admissions, 1991 to 1994 Vice President for International Relations). From 1991 to 1994 Ring also worked as a member of the Presidium of the Comité de Liaison (the later European Rectors' Conference ) in Brussels, before that from 1988 to 1991 he worked for the Science Council (member of the expansion committee).

In 1994, Ring moved to the Reading Foundation in Mainz as managing director ; in 2003 he was appointed Scientific Director of the same. From 2004 to 2014 he was honorary president of the Frankfurt Polytechnic Society ; In this function, he founded the Polytechnic Society Foundation in 2005 and held the position of Chairman of the Board of Management from 2005 to 2008 and Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 2005 to 2014. In 2005, Ring sold together with the banker Paul Wieandt the Frankfurter Sparkasse from 1822, which was 60 percent owned by the Polytechnic Society. With the proceeds of the sale, he and Henriette Kramer, Vice President of the Polytechnic Society at the time, were able to finance the establishment of the new Polytechnic Society Foundation

Memberships

Klaus Ring is or was a co-opted member of the Enquéte Commission of the German Bundestag "Culture in Germany" (formerly educational funding), the German Literature Conference in the German Culture Council, member of the board of the Gutenberg Society and the board of trustees of the Villa Vigoni in Loveno di Menaggio. In Frankfurt am Main he works or worked in the administration of Dr. Senckenbergische Stiftung as well as in various boards of trustees (including the Städelsches Kunstinstitut , Literaturhaus Frankfurt and Historisches Museum Frankfurt ) and on the University Council of the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main .

He was also chairman of the board of trustees of the Paul-Ehrlich-Stiftung , member of the board of the Georg-Speyer-Haus , member of the board of trustees of the DAAD and a co-opted member of the plenary meeting of the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry and member of the corporate advisory board of Messe Frankfurt GmbH. Activities on the boards or boards of trustees of scientific corporate foundations connect him with Hoechst AG and Degussa AG.

Ring was awarded honorary memberships by the following associations: Friends of the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg (2013), Kunstgewerbeverein Frankfurt am Main and Polytechnische Gesellschaft (both 2014). Ring does not belong to any political party.

Fonts (selection)

  • Textbook of Physiological Chemistry. With Werner Groß and Edgar Lodemann, VCH, Weinheim 1989, ISBN 3-527-15350-0 .
  • Reading in the Information Society - Perspectives on Media Culture. Edited by Klaus Ring, Klaus von Trotha and Peter Voß (journalist) , Nomos, Baden-Baden 1997, ISBN 3-7890-4825-9 .
  • Frankfurt for everyone. Perspectives for action for the international city of Frankfurt am Main. Memorandum on urban development in Frankfurt by AS & P - Albert Speer junior and partner, 2009. For this he wrote the chapter on Frankfurt as a city of science.
  • Numerous specialist publications as well as publications on questions of education in the information society.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Bauer: In good company. The history of the Polytechnic Society in Frankfurt am Main. Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-86539-677-8 .
  2. ↑ Hans Riebsamen: Manager of the Spirit. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. April 11, 2008.
  3. ↑ gemeinsam-aktiv.de
personal data
SURNAME Ring, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German microbiologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne