Werner Köhler (doctor)

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Werner Köhler (born March 24, 1929 in Dresden ) is a German microbiologist , immunologist , ethnologist and medical historian .

Studies, specialist training, doctorates

As the son of a foreman, he finished high school in 1945, and then studied medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena until 1951 . From 1946 he studied anthropology and ethnology at the same place . Politically, he oriented himself to the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD), of which he became a member in 1950. From April 1982 (12th party congress) to 1990 he was a member of the main committee of the NDPD.

In the years 1951 to 1953 he served compulsory periods at university hospitals in Thuringia as part of the medical training . In 1952, for example, he practiced surgery at the Chemnitz University Clinic . In 1953 he worked as an assistant at the Research Institute for Microbiology and Hygiene in Bad Elster . To the Dr. rer. nat. He received his doctorate from the University of Jena in 1953 on the subject of the African wooden mortar. A contribution to the early history of the food industry . He then went to the Hygiene Institute of the University of Rostock in 1954 , where he obtained his doctorate in the same year. med. with the work of streptolysin and antistreptolysin with special consideration of the antistreptolysin reaction at the University of Rostock.

Habilitation and lecturer

In 1956 he was appointed senior physician and specialist in bacteriology and serology . On May 27, 1957 he completed his habilitation with the thesis Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Bact. Pyocyaneum): Cytology, L-Cycle, Biochemistry and Serology at the University of Rostock. This was followed by his appointment as a lecturer for medical microbiology at the University of Rostock in 1957 and in the context of the re- habilitation and recognition of the lectureship at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena in 1958.

Professorship, institute director and chair

In 1958 he took over the management of the Department of Medical Microbiology at the Central Institute for Microbiology and Experimental Therapy (ZIMET) of the German Academy of Sciences (DAW) in Jena. In 1961 he was appointed professor at the DAW in Berlin. From 1966 to 1972 he was also a part-time director of the Research Institute for Microbiology and Hygiene in Bad Elster. He was appointed head of department at ZIMET in 1970 and deputy director of the institute in 1976. From 1992 he was involved in founding the Institute for Experimental Microbiology at the University of Jena. From 1993 to 1995 he held the chair for experimental microbiology and immunochemistry at the University of Jena.

Focus of his work

His main focus is on medical microbiology and research into streptococci . The main focus was on the serology and the pathology of the streptococcal infection. Important points were the studies on the so-called cell wall M protein as an approach for the development of a vaccination. This work took place in cooperation with the Institute for Experimental Pathology and Therapy in Sukhumi , where attempts were also made to vaccinate rhesus monkeys .

Individual studies on toxins in the extracellular area, the so-called erythrogenic toxins of the streptococci, were carried out in cooperation with the Institute for Clinical Bacteriology in Umeå in Sweden in order to develop an anti-toxic vaccination. In the GDR, work also took place on the development of a thrombolytic of streptokinase in order to manufacture it in the GDR.

With Otto Prokop and Gerhard Uhlenbruck it was possible to prove the existence of so-called protectins in fish in the form of lectins and in snails, which led to an application in diagnostics. With Prokop he was able to prove the binding of haptoglobin to certain streptococci.

During and after his active time as a microbiologist, he wrote papers on the history of bacteriology. Alone and with other authors he was involved in the publication of six specialist books and more than 450 articles in specialist journals up to 1993. He also wrote individual contributions to manuals and dictionaries.

Fonts

  • Menstruation, Pregnancy and Childbirth in Africa. In: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift Jena, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 3 (1953/54), pp. 129–142
  • The Antistreptolysin Council (ASR). In German. Health Service 9 (1954), pp. 992-997
  • Corynebacterium citreum-mobile, a new, dye-forming saprophytic germ of the genus Corynebacterium. In: Zentralblatt Bakt. Hyg. I. Orig. 162 (1954), pp. 275-280
  • Leifson's flagellum color. In: Wiss. Magazine Univ. Rostock, Math-Naturw. Series 5 (1955/56), pp. 357-365
  • Streptococcal differentiation. In: Heilberufe, 6 (1956), pp. 155–161
  • Streptolysins and antistreptolysin reactions - theory and practice , contributions to hygiene and epidemiology, issue 9, Leipzig 1957
  • About an experimental method to differentiate between leptospires and pseudospirochetes. In: Zentralblatt Hyg. 168 (1957), pp. 486-488
  • The practice of resistance and level determinations for antibiotic therapy with Hans Jürgen Otte, Jena 1958
  • Peptonum - peptone. In: Pharmaceut. Zentralhalle 97 (1958), pp. 109–110
  • The serology of rheumatism and streptococcal infections , Leipzig 1959
  • Differential diagnosis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by cytochrome oxidase detection (Gaby test). In: Zentralblatt Hyg. 176 (1959), pp. 476-480
  • About the occurrence of serological group K streptococci in ovarian abscesses. In: Zeitschr. total Hyg. Border area 6, pp. 371-373 (1960)
  • About a new serological group h in the genital tract of bulls in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In: Zuchthygiene 5 (1961), pp. 123-130
  • Antibiotic sensitivity of human PPLO strains. In: Zentralblatt Bakt. Hyg. I. Orig. 185 (1962), pp. 355-366
  • Studies on the occurrence of rare virus antibodies (West Nile virus) in the Berlin population. In: monthly reports DAW Berlin 7 (1965), pp. 398-399
  • Bacteriological and serological diagnostics of rheumatic diseases , Leipzig 1966
  • Agglutination experiments on streptococci with the phytagglutinin from Dolichos biflorus with Otto Prokop , in: Zeitschr. Immune research, allergy and clin. Immunol. 133 (1967), pp. 171-175
  • A new source of antibody-like substances having anti-blood group specificity , with Otto Prokop and Gerhard Uhlenbruck, in: Vox Sang. 14: 321-333 (1968)
  • Outline of medical microbiology with Hanspeter Mochmann, Jena 1975
  • 100 years of bacteriology with Hanspeter Mochmann, Berlin 1980
  • Mixed infections with Anton Mayr, Jena 1980
  • Infectious diseases with Hans Wolfgang Ocklitz, Hanspeter Mochmann and H. Abaza, Stuttgart 1983
  • Milestones in bacteriology: from discoveries and discoverers from the early years of medical microbiology with Hanspeter Mochmann, Jena 1984
  • Pathogenicity mechanisms of viral, bacterial and protozoal infections with Rudolf Rott, 1991
  • Life-threatening streptococcal and staphylococcal diseases: Leopoldina meeting from May 19-20, 1995 in Inzell , with Bernhard Fleischer and Michael Buslau, Leipzig 1996
  • Epidemics yesterday and today with Jürgen Kiefer, Erfurt 1999
  • Bacterial Pathogenesis - Modern Approaches with Anna Przondo-Mordarska, Gerhard Pulverer and Anna Przondo-Mordarska, 1999
  • Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff (1770-1837) and other great Erfurt natural scientists. In: Dietmar von der Pfordten, Great Thinkers of Erfurt and the University of Erfurt, Göttingen 2002

Membership and Offices

  • 1968 German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • 1970 Corresponding member of the DAW zu Berlin (later: Academy of Sciences of the GDR)
  • 1976–1992 full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
  • 1979–1983 Chairman of the Medical Microbiology and Hygiene Section in the Leopoldina
  • 1982 Main Committee of the NDPD
  • 1983–1990 Secretary for Medicine at the Leopoldina
  • 1990–2000 Vice President of the Leopoldina
  • 1990 full member of the academy of non-profit science in Erfurt
  • 1991–2010 President of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt
  • 1990–1991 temporary advisory commission on 'basic research' of the Federal Minister for Science and Technology
  • 1991 Head of the National Reference Center for Streptococci of the Federal Ministry of Health
  • 1991 Board of Trustees of the Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation
  • 1992 Electoral body for the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (aka Prussian Academy of Sciences)
  • 1992 College for the Claudius Galenus Prize (Galenus von Pergamon Prize)
  • 1994 extraordinary member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conversation with national award winner party friend Prof. Dr. Werner Koehler . In: National-Zeitung of October 10, 1988.
  2. ↑ Müller-Enbergs et al., Who was who in the GDR ?, Augsburg 2003, p. 454
  3. ^ Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt eV (Ed.), Propter Fructus Gratior, Festgabe on the occasion of Werner Köhler's 65th birthday, Volume 22, 1994, pp. 135–162
  4. ↑ In 1972 the GDR refused to accept the award.
  5. ↑ Merit Medal ( Memento from June 15, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German microbiologist, immunologist and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden