Schulze, werner

(¤ 1903,  1978) Dermatologist, working in Rostock, Freiburg Born on 28.6.1903, in Mustin/Mecklenburg, as son of the hotel owner Heinrich Schulze and his wife née Riebe. Werner Schulze attended the Realgymnasium in Schwerin/Mecklenburg; there he passed his A-levels. Afterwards he studied at the Technical University in Hanover. In 1930 he received his doctorate in physical chemistry. The subject of his dissertation was: "On the reaction rate at the unification of cyan and zinc and on the mechanism of this reaction". From 1931-1935 assistant at the Physiological-Chemical Institute of the University of Leipzig. From 1935, Schulze was an assistant at the Dermatological Clinic of the Berlin Charité under Walter Frieboes, who inspired him to study medicine and dermatology. Medical studies with state examination in Berlin in April 1939. Doctorate in 1940. 1943 habilitation. The subject of his habilitation thesis was: "Investigations on the sensitivity to alkalis, the ability to neutralize alkalis and the carbonic acid release of the skin". On November 1, 1945, Schulze moved to the University Dermatology Clinic in Freiburg i. Breisgau under Alfred Stühmer, initially as a scientific assistant. 1951 full professorship. 1952 appointment to the full professorship in Rostock. The appointment was preceded by fierce disputes between the faculty and the SED party organisation of the University of Rostock. In the end, however, the appointment committee was successful. This West-East transfer was one of the few such examples. Like Josef Kimmig (Hamburg) and Helmut Ippen (Göttingen), W. Schulze belonged to the dermatologists who had studied medicine and chemistry and thus enriched the department. The working conditions in Rostock were extraordinarily bad because the urgently required new building for a clinic was not realized. He was able to push through the first step, the new building of a skin polyclinic. The polyclinic, which was opened on 29 May 1954, comprised not only the outpatient rooms but also the radiation department, an operating room, library, test laboratory, photo laboratory and laboratories for chemical, mycological and bacteriological examinations. As several contractual obligations, which the State Secretariat for Higher Education had entered into when he was appointed to Rostock, were not fulfilled, Schulze terminated his employment contract at the end of April 1958 and left the German Democratic Republic via Berlin. He returned to the University Dermatology Clinic in Freiburg, which was meanwhile headed by Karl-Wilhelm Kalkoff. There in a senior medical function until 1976.