Erhard Geißler is a German biologist

Biologist

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 and geneticist

Geneticist

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.

Biography

Geißler was a professor for genetics

Genetics

Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....

 at the University of Rostock

University of Rostock

The University of Rostock is the university of the city Rostock, in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.Founded in 1419, it is the oldest and largest university in continental northern Europe and the Baltic Sea area...

. Between 1965 and 1971 he was dean

Dean (education)

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 of the university. Subsequently he was head of department at the Zentralinstitut für Molekularbiologie of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, from 1992 till 2000 at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch is one of the sixteen research centers of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. The Max Delbrück Center was founded in January 1992 as successor of the Zentralinstitut für Molekularbiologie that depended of the German...

. Furthermore he has been working for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute since 1983.

Selected publications

• Biological and Toxin Weapons Today. Oxford 1986
• Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention by Confidence-Building Measures. Oxford 1990
• Prevention of a Biological and Toxin Arms Race and the Responsibility of Scientists. Berlin 1991 (Co-author)
• Control of Dual-Threat Agents: The Vaccines for Peace Programme. Oxford 1994
• Hitler und die Biowaffen. Münster 1998
• Krieg mit Pest und Milzbrand: Die Geschichte der biologischen Waffen und das Versagen der Geheimdienste. Berlin 2002

External links

• Prof. Erhard Geißler wird 75 Pressemitteilung des MDC
• Geißler, Erhard (Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur)