Werner Luckenbach

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Werner Luckenbach (born January 12, 1900 in Stettin , † March 14, 1982 in Heidelberg ) was a German pharmacist . He was a long-time curator of the German Pharmacy Museum and helped move the museum to its current location in Heidelberg Castle .

Life

Born as the son of a Stettin pharmacist, he graduated from the König-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Stettin and then studied pharmacy and chemistry at the University of Heidelberg . In 1926 he received his doctorate from the University of Frankfurt am Main . He worked in his father's pharmacy in Stettin, which he took over in 1936. During the Second World War he served as an army pharmacist in the Generalgouvernement and in Norway .

After the war - his hometown Stettin had come to Poland - Luckenbach lived as a displaced person in Heidelberg, where he founded the Greif pharmacy in 1950.

In the 1950s, Luckenbach was initially deputy curator of the German Pharmacy Museum , which was founded in 1937 and was located in Bamberg after being relocated due to the war . Thanks to his participation, the move to its current location in the Ottheinrichsbau of Heidelberg Castle , where it was reopened in 1957, came about. From 1957 until his death, Luckenbach was an honorary curator of the museum.

From 1965 to 1971 Luckenbach was Vice President of the German Pharmaceutical Society . In 1969 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class , and in the same year he was appointed a corresponding member of the Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia in Madrid .

Luckenbach was married and had three sons and a daughter.

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SURNAME Luckenbach, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1982
Place of death Heidelberg