Mourning for George Turner: A humane modernizer:
The name George Turner is closely associated with Stuttgart. He was the youngest president of the University of ...
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George Turner Dies at 91The former Hohenheim university president died at his Berlin home on 2 November 2026; his son Sebastian announced the death the following day.
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- Turner was elected Hohenheim University’s first president in 1970, aged 34, making him Germany’s youngest university president.
- At Turner’s initiative, Hohenheim became the first German university to undergo an organizational and efficiency review.
- From 1986 to 1989, Turner served as Berlin’s non-party senator for science and research; the West Berlin Academy of Sciences was founded during that period.
- According to his son Sebastian, Turner devoted his life to supporting refugees, most recently people fleeing Ukraine.
“From a farmer’s son in the farthest reaches of East Prussia to the head of a university in Baden-Württemberg, soon to become a globally successful industrial state, and a senator in Berlin, you reflected and helped shape the transformation from an agrarian to an industrial and then a knowledge-based society.”— Social and economic historian Jürgen Kocka praised George Turner in a commemorative publication for Turner’s 90th birthday.
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