Werner Zerweck was a German chemist, inventor and industrial leader, who was CEO of the chemical and pharmaceutical company Cassella from 1953 to 1963.
10 Facts About Werner Zerweck
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Werner Zerweck was a member of the advisory board of Deutsche Bank from 1953.
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Werner Zerweck studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich under the Nobel Prize-winning chemists Heinrich Otto Wieland and Hans Fischer, and obtained his doctorate in 1922 with Fischer as his doctoral advisor.
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Werner Zerweck then worked for two years as Fischer's assistant, and was employed as a researcher at Cassella from 1924 after being recommended to the company by Fischer.
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Werner Zerweck worked in the research laboratory led by Arthur von Weinberg and later worked closely with Richard Herz.
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In 1932 he became joint head of research together with Otto Bayer; after Otto Bayer had left Cassella to join Bayer the following year, Werner Zerweck became Cassella's sole head of research.
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Werner Zerweck received power of procuration in 1936 and became deputy head of the Cassella works in 1939.
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Werner Zerweck was a member of the supervisory board from 1956.
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Werner Zerweck became a member of the advisory board of Deutsche Bank in 1953.
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Werner Zerweck was the inventor of numerous chemical and pharmaceutical patents.