Manfred Ringpfeil
Manfred Gustav Ringpfeil (born July 12, 1932 in Wermsdorf ) is a German chemist and biotechnologist . From 1969 to 1987 he was director of the Institute for Technical Chemistry and Biotechnology of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, which later became the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In addition, from 1985 to 1989 he headed the Biosciences and Medicine Research Department and then the Academy's Biosciences Department.
Life
Manfred Ringpfeil was born in Wermsdorf in 1932 and , after studying chemistry , which he completed from 1951 to 1955, received his doctorate in 1958 at the University of Leipzig with a thesis on the synthesis and extraction of dextran . In the same year he became head of research at VEB Serumwerk in Bernburg . In 1959 he moved to the Institute for Process Engineering of Organic Chemistry in Leipzig , part of the Research Foundation of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , where he later also served as a department head. In addition, he worked as a lecturer for technical microbiology at the Magdeburg University of Technology .
From 1969 to 1987 he was then director of the newly created Leipzig Academy Institute for Technical Chemistry and the Institute for Biotechnology that emerged from it in 1985 through restructuring. In 1970 he was appointed professor by the academy and in 1985 took over as director of the research area biosciences and medicine as head of the association of biologically and medically oriented academy institutes. With the division of the research area into two independent scientific areas, he became secretary of the scientific area of life sciences.
After German reunification , he was the managing director of a biotechnology company based in Berlin-Adlershof .
Awards
Manfred Ringpfeil was from 1975 a corresponding and from 1981 a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1987 he received the GDR National Prize .
Works (selection)
- A New Directed Biological Synthesis of Dextran. Series: Meeting reports of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Berlin 1960 (as co-author)
- Microbial polysaccharides. Series: Scientific paperbacks. Volume 19. Berlin 1964 (as co-author)
- Questions of microbiology and the scientific basis of the microbiological industry. Series: Treatises of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Berlin 1978 (as editor)
- Development of laboratory fermentors. Berlin 1980 (as editor)
literature
- Ring Arrow, Manfred. In: Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 262.
- Ring Arrow, Manfred . In: Werner Hartkopf:The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992,ISBN 3-05-002153-5, p. 299.
Web links
- Literature by and about Manfred Ringpfeil in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ring Arrow, Manfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ringpfeil, Manfred Gustav (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and biotechnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wermsdorf |