Otto Schieder

Otto Schifter's tombstone in the Heerstrasse cemetery

Otto Schieder (born August 7, 1938 in Königsberg ; † May 15, 1998 in Berlin ) was a German biologist and breeding researcher .

He grew up in Königsberg as the son of Professor of Medieval and Modern History Theodor Schieder (1908–1984) and his wife Eva Rogalsky. In early 1944 the family fled to Dietmannsried in the Allgäu . After attending school in Kempten and Cologne , Otto Schieder passed his Abitur in 1954 at the Kreuzgasse grammar school in Cologne. He studied zoology , botany , genetics and biochemistry in Cologne , Bonn and Kiel .

He received his doctorate in 1967 in Cologne with a thesis supervised by Joseph Straub from the Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research . He then worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute until 1979. In 1978 he received his habilitation from Meinhart Zenk at the University of Bochum . In 1980 he became head of an independent working group at the Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research. From 1985 until his death he was professor for unconventional plant breeding at the Institute for Applied Genetics at the Free University of Berlin .

Otto Schieder died in May 1998 at the age of 59 in Berlin. His grave is on the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: II-W7-7 / 8).

literature

• Maria-Dolores Sacristán, Werner Odenbach: A life for science. Obituary for Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Otto Schieder . In: FU-Nachrichten 1998, issue 6, p. 27 ( full text with picture ).
• Michael Schieder: Otto Schieder . In: Old Prussian Biography . Volume 5, 2. Elwert, Marburg 2007, ISBN 3-7708-1301-4 , pp. 1930-1931.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin: Prominent graves in the state-owned cemetery Heerstrasse . Notice in the cemetery. As of November 2012. Read on December 3, 2019.