Otto Anselmino

Otto Anselmino (born  July 15, 1873 in Mannheim , †  September 30, 1955 in Koserow ; full name: Otto Herrmann Anselmino ) was a German pharmacist who worked from 1920 to 1938 as an associate professor for pharmaceutical chemistry at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin as well as from 1928 to 1933 in the Permanent Opium Central Committee of the League of Nations . He was instrumental in shaping the national and international legal bases for the traffic and handling of narcotics at the time and was also co-editor of the commentary on the fifth and sixth editions of the German Pharmacopoeia .

Life

Otto Anselmino was born in Mannheim in 1873 and attended high school in his hometown and in Lahr / Black Forest . From 1890 he completed a pharmacy training in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Mannheim and Baden-Baden , and in 1898 passed the pharmaceutical state examination at the University of Heidelberg . Two years later , also obtained a doctorate in Heidelberg with a chemical thesis. In addition, he passed the examination to become a food chemist at the University of Greifswald in 1903 , where he was a private lecturer in 1904 and subsequently also qualified as a professor . From 1908 he worked in the pharmaceutical department of the Imperial Health Department in Berlin , where he became senior councilor. He also worked as a lecturer and from 1920 to 1938 as an associate professor for pharmaceutical chemistry at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität there , where he had his habilitation in 1912.

Otto Anselmino was co-editor of the commentary on the fifth and sixth editions of the German Pharmacopoeia in 1911 and 1926 respectively . In addition, from 1922 to 1933 he worked on the opium monitoring committee of the League of Nations in Geneva in the drafting of international law and national legislation on the traffic and handling of narcotics in the form of the Opium Act . The Geneva Opium Agreement of February 19, 1925 was signed by Germany with the proviso that ratification would only take place if a German was elected to the Central Standing Committee. The Reich government proposed Otto Anselmino, who was then elected to the committee on December 14, 1928 and left the office of senior government councilor in the Reich Health Office at the end of 1928. After Germany withdrew from the League of Nations in 1933, he ended his participation in the Central Standing Committee a year later.

In 1938 he moved to Wolgast , his wife's hometown, and subsequently worked as an expert for the pharmaceutical industry . After the end of the Second World War , he taught Latin and chemistry at the Wolgast Oberschule and in adult education for people who had interrupted their schooling due to the war.

Otto Anselmino died in Koserow on the island of Usedom in 1955 . In Wolgast, the Anselmino pharmacy has been bearing his name in his memory since the 1950s.

Works (selection)

• Commentary on the German Pharmacopoeia: Based on the Hager-Fischer-Hartwich comments in the earlier pharmacopoeia. Two volumes. Fifth edition, Berlin 1911 Digitized edition ; Sixth edition, Berlin 1926 (as co-editor)
• Pharmaceutical-chemical calculation book. Berlin 1928 (as co-author)
• Commentary on the law on traffic in narcotics (Opium Law) and its implementing provisions. Berlin 1931 (as co-author)
• ABC of the stupétiants. Geneva 1931

literature

• Anselmino, Otto. In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 18
• Christoph Friedrich, Hans-Joachim Seidlein: Otto Anselmino - its importance for the history of pharmaceutical science, especially at the University of Greifswald. In: The Pharmacy . 36 (12) / 1981. Govi-Verlag, pp. 846-852, ISSN  0031-7144
• Petra Schendzielorz: The beginnings of narcotics legislation in Germany. With special consideration of the Opiumstelle Berlin and the pharmacist Otto Anselmino (1873–1955). Dissertation at the Free University of Berlin, Berlin 1989

Web links

• Literature about Otto Anselmino in the state bibliography MV