Karl-Wolfgang Zschiesche

Life & Legacy

Karl-Wolfgang Zschiesche (14 March 1933 – 29 October 1996) was a German physician and pathologist.
He worked as a departmental and then divisional head at the Central Institute of Microbiology and Experimental Therapy (as it was known at the time) between 1962 and 1979. The Institute was a research institution of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, operating outside the country's universities sector. In 1979, he moved in to the Central Institute for Microbiology, in the Buch quarter on the north side of Berlin, serving as director of the institute between 1981 and 1984.