Paul Pulewka

Paul Pulewka (1896 to 1989) was a German pharmacologist and toxicologist from Elbing, now Elbląg in Poland. He graduated from the Königsberg Medical Faculty in 1923 and earned doctorates in pharmacology and toxicology at its Pharmacology Institute in 1927. He became a docent at the University of Tübingen in 1929 and in May 1933 was promoted to professor extraordinarius of pharmacology and toxicology, lecturing on the toxicology of poisonous gases and protection against them. Warned that his political beliefs and his Jewish wife put him in danger from the Nazi Party, he left the professorship and, with help from an anti-Nazi official in the German foreign ministry, reached Turkey in October 1935. He worked first for the Central Hygiene Institute of the Ministry of Health in Ankara, became director of the Pharmacy Institute at the University of Ankara in 1946, where he helped establish pharmacological controls, and returned to Germany in 1954. He died in Tübingen in 1989.