Werner Scheler
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Werner Scheler (12 September 1923 – 9 October 2018)[1] was a German physician and pharmacologist.[2]
Werner Scheler | |
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Born | (1923-09-12)12 September 1923 |
Died | 9 October 2018(2018-10-09) (aged 95)[1] |
Occupation(s) | Academic (Pharmacology) University rector (Greifswald: 1966–1970) Party Central Committee Member (SED: 1979–1989) |
Political party | NSDAP (1941–1945) KPD(1945–1946) SED (1946–1989) |
Between 1959 and 1971 he worked at the University of Greifswald where he served as the Director of the university's Institute of Pharmacology and as a teaching professor in his subject, subsequently also becoming the University Rector following the death of Georg Tartler [de].[3] Later, between 1979 and 1990, Scheler was the penultimate president of the (East) German Academy of Sciences.[3][4]
Like many leading academics in the German Democratic Republic, Werner Scheler also pursued a career in national politics. At the end of 1978 he was elected to membership of the powerful Party Central Committee.[3]