Roland Schmiedel

Roland Paul Gerhard Schmiedel (born April 25, 1888 in Cannstatt ; † July 6, 1967 in Stuttgart ) was a German pharmacist and founder of the publishing house.

After high school visit to Cannstatt and pharmaceutical apprenticeship in the Council pharmacy Jena Schmiedel studied in Stuttgart and Tübingen Pharmacy and was in 1910 at the Technical University in Stuttgart the state exam. He continued his academic training at the University of Tübingen , passed the main food chemist examination in 1912 and received his doctorate. rer. nat.

After working briefly in the pharmacy of the Katharinen Hospital in Stuttgart, he founded the Dr. Schmiedel and Gunzert and at the same time joined the editorial team of the Süddeutsche Apotheker-Zeitung . However, Schmiedel first had to do military service in 1914 and was only able to take over the editorial management of the newspaper afterwards.

In 1921 he founded the Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft in Stuttgart, which published a large number of scientific books. In 1950 he acquired the publishing rights of the German Pharmacist Publishing House in Berlin , which was relocated to Stuttgart. Roland Schmiedel published a large number of scientific journals in his publishing houses, including: Medical monthly (1947), Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau (1948), The German Economic Review (1963), Mundus (1965). Schmiedel also devoted himself to other professional and academic tasks. He was a pharmacy visitator for Württemberg (since 1927), pharmaceutical and chemical reporter in the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior, lecturer for pharmaceutical law at the University of Tübingen and the TH Stuttgart and lecturer for food chemistry at the TH Stuttgart. In 1952 the University of Tübingen appointed him honorary professor.

literature

• German pharmacist biography , eds. Wolfgang-Hagen Hein and Holm-Dietmar Schwarz, supplementary volume I, Stuttgart 1986, p. 393 f.
• Sibylle Wessinger:  Schmiedel, Roland. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 228 f. ( Digitized version ).