Obituary: Prof. Dr Ahlert Schmidt (1940 – 2025)
Ahlert Schmidt was Professor of Botany at the Institute of Botany at the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) from 1997 until his retirement in 2005, following positions in Göttingen, Bochum, TU München, Germany, as well as Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. His research focus were sulphur compounds and their metabolism and metabolic reactions in several plant species, as he summarized in a document (“A personal review of 50 fruitful years of research in the sulphur field” adjusted by Jutta Papenbrock, Institute for Botany at LUH). The document also lists Schmidt’s scientific papers. Professor Schmidt died on 7th March, 2025.