Werner Schulemann

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Werner Schulemann

Werner Schulemann (born  May 4, 1888 in Neisse , †  June 20, 1975 in Bonn ) was a German pharmacologist . He worked from 1938 to 1955 as a professor at the University of Bonn and was particularly concerned with the development of drugs for the treatment of malaria . In 1939 he was accepted into the Leopoldina for his research achievements and was awarded the Schmiedeberg plaque in 1969.

Life

Werner Schulemann was born in Neisse in 1888 and studied medicine and chemistry at the Universities of Freiburg and Breslau . In Breslau he obtained his scientific doctorate in 1913 and his medical doctorate a year later . After military service as a surgeon during the First World War , he worked in the research department of IG Farbenindustrie from 1919 , and from 1930 he was a member of the company's board of directors.

In 1931 he became a professor at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . Six years later he took over a professorship at the University of Bonn and from February 1938 a full professorship for pharmacology. Werner Schulemann, who joined the NSDAP in June 1937 , also served as dean of the medical faculty until the end of the Second World War . In 1944, however, he refused the post of university rector because he wanted to avoid "too close contact with the National Socialist leadership".

After the end of the war, in the course of denazification, he was initially classified as a “fellow traveler” and expelled from the institute. In 1948 he was able to return to his position at the University of Bonn after being classified as “relieved”, where he worked until his retirement in 1955. He died in Bonn in 1975 .

Scientific work

Werner Schulemann's scientific interests focused on vital staining , organic mercury compounds , the chemical synthesis of medicinal substances and pharmacokinetics . For many years he devoted himself in particular to the development of chemotherapeutically effective substances for the treatment of malaria , including the first synthetically produced anti-malarial drug in the 1920s under the name Plasmochin . At Bayer, Wilhelm Roehl , Fritz Schönhöfer and August Wingler were also involved . In the years 1952/1953 he acted as chairman of the German Pharmacological Society (DPG).

Awards

Werner Schulemann was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1934 and of the Leopoldina from 1939 , and received the Emil Fischer Medal in 1928 , the Bernhard Nocht Medal in 1940 and the Schmiedeberg Plaque from the DPG in 1969 . In addition, several universities awarded him honorary doctorates .

literature

  • Schulemann, Werner. In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Dictionary of German Biography. Volume 9: Schmidt-Theyer. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-11-096629-8 , pp. 186/187
  • Athineos Philippu: History and work of the pharmacological, clinical-pharmacological and toxicological institutes in German-speaking countries. Berenkamp, ​​Innsbruck 2004, ISBN 3-85093-180-3 , p. 138
  • National Socialist, war dean and victim of anti-Jewish denunciation - Werner Schulemann. In: Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich". Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57989-4 , pp. 100-112
  • August W. Holldorf:  Schulemann, Werner. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 675 f. ( Digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In: Ralf Forsbach, Munich 2006, p. 102 (see literature)
  2. ↑ In: Ralf Forsbach, Munich 2006, p. 111 (see literature)
  3. ↑ a b Research group on the history of the German Research Foundation 1920–1970 (Head: Rüdiger vom Bruch, Ulrich Herbert): Report on the final conference on January 30 and 31, 2008 in Berlin. Published 2008, p. 96
personal data
SURNAME Schulemann, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Neisse
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1975
Place of death Bonn