Werner Knoll

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Werner Knoll (born April 30, 1896 in Berlin , † October 4, 1967 in Würzburg ) was a German pharmacist and chemist , military officer in the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht in World War II . His last rank was that of general pharmacist .

Life

Werner Alfred Hermann Knoll, son of the master baker Heinrich Knoll and his wife Hedwig, b. Wolfram, graduated from the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Realgymnasium in Berlin in 1914 and took part in the First World War as a war volunteer . At the end of the war he was in the rank of lieutenant leader of an MG company.

After the war Knoll began an apprenticeship at the Simons pharmacy in Berlin and passed the preliminary pharmaceutical examination in 1920. In 1921 he began studying pharmacy at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, where he passed his state examination as a pharmacist with Hermann Thoms in 1923 . Then Knoll completed a chemistry degree, which he completed in 1924 with the association examination (diploma chemist). From 1923 to 1927 he was a research assistant at the First Chemical Institute of the University of Berlin, at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical and Electro-Chemistry , at the Prussian State Institute for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene and at the Prussian State Institute for Medicinal Products , Food and Forensic Chemistry. In 1926 he was in Hans Pringsheim Dr. phil. with a thesis "On the constitution of the lichenine". In 1927 he passed his state examination as a food chemist with Adolf Juckenack at the Technical University of Berlin .

Then Knoll joined the Reichswehr as an army pharmacist. From 1927 to 1933 he served as the head of the chemical research institute of Group Command I in Berlin. From 1933 to 1936 he held the position of military district pharmacist in military district III. In 1936 Knoll rose to the position of chief pharmacist at the Army Sanitary Inspection in the Army High Command (OKH) and was thus responsible for the entire military pharmaceutical sector: the maintenance of sanitary parks and chemical inspection centers, production and organization of medical supplies (drugs, bandages, medical and transport equipment), the processing of all personnel matters for the pharmaceutical service, etc. a. In 1937 he was promoted to chief pharmacist and appointed to the ministerial council . On October 1, 1944, Knoll was the only member of the Wehrmacht to be promoted to the rank of general pharmacist , thereby simultaneously holding the status of ministerial director.

In April 1945 Knoll was taken prisoner of war , from which he was released in July of the same year. From 1945 to 1949 he was an industrial pharmacist with Dr. Benöhr Chemie in Bad Segeberg and at Curta & Co in Mayen and Weilheim. In 1949 he opened with Dr. Hans Budde ran the Phönix pharmacy in Würzburg , which he had been running alone since 1952. From 1954 to 1965 he was a pharmacist (honorary official) in the government of Lower Franconia, from 1956 to 1958 lecturer in pharmaceutical law at the University of Würzburg and from 1957 to 1967 delegate to the Bavarian Chamber of Pharmacists .

In 1966, Knoll was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

plant

  • Werner Knoll: About the constitution of the lichenine . Berlin: Preuss. Printing and Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft 1926. (Diss. Friedrich Wilhelm University, Berlin 1926).
  • Werner Knoll: The pharmacist and his service in the army. In: Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung 51 (1936), pp. 1834-1835.

literature

  • Fritz Köchel: Pharmacist Dr. W. Knoll, Würzburg, General Pharmacist a. D., 65 years. In: Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung 101 (1961), p. 522.
  • Hans Unger: General Pharmacist Knoll. In: Wehrmedizinische Monatsschrift 11 (1967), pp. 427-428.
  • Herbert Huegel: General Pharmacist. In: Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung 117 (1977), pp. 1869–1871.
  • Dermot Bradley : The Generals of the Army 1921–1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general . Bissendorf: Biblio-Verlag 2004. Volume 7, pp. 28-29.
  • Josef Schneider: Contributions to the history of military pharmacy from 1935-1945 . Düsseldorf: Triltsch 1982.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knoll 1926, p. 28.
  2. ↑ Köchel 1961, Hügel 1977.
  3. ^ Schneider 1982.
  4. ↑ Hügel 1977, pp. 1869f.
  5. ↑ Köchel 1961.
  6. ↑ Federal Gazette of March 1, 1967, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Knoll, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently general pharmacist in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1967
Place of death Wurzburg