Werner Rau

Werner Bernhard Rau (born November 28, 1927 in Stuttgart , † November 8, 2013 in Munich ) was a German biologist and professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

biography

Rau studied biology, chemistry and geography at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1950 he was part of the Scotland team . With a botanical work it is 1953 in Tübingen Dr. rer. nat. been awarded a doctorate . In 1955 he came to the Botanical Institute of the University of Munich as an academic adviser. Here he completed his habilitation in 1962 and was appointed adjunct professor in 1969. In 1976 he refused a call to the full professorship for botany at the University of Münster. Throughout his research, he dealt intensively with the induction of flower formation in long-day plants. In the course of the increasing enlargement of the earth's ozone hole and its unforeseeable consequences, he took part in a German-American joint project to research the possible risks of the increased UV radiation hitting the earth's surface for the growth of plants and ultimately for nutrition of the human. Most recently, in the 1990s, he was research group leader and coordinator of BayFORKLIM , an interdisciplinary research network that dealt with climate changes in Bavaria and their effects on microorganisms, plants, animals and humans.

For decades he was the managing director of the Botanical Institute of the University of Munich, and he was elected vice-president in 1981.

August Böck is one of his students .

Publications

• About the effect of light available at different times of the day on substance production and nitrogen content of seedlings. Dissertation University of Tübingen 1953.

References and comments

1. ^ Press release from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, February 19, 1981
2. ↑ MünchnerUni Magazin , No. 2, 2014, p. 42
3. ↑ BIOspektrum , 14th year, 2008, p. 302.