Hubert Walter

Hubert Walter (April 14, 1930 — December 6, 2008) was a German anthropologist and human biologist. Born in Berlin, he did a Ph.D. from the University of Kiel in 1953 and worked at various positions at the University of Münster, University of Mainz and University of Bremen. He taught anthropology at the University of Mainz from 1962 to 1974. From 1974 to until his retirement in 1995, he was a professor of anthropology and human biology at the University of Bremen. He received several honors and honorary memberships from various universities and anthropological organizations, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens in 1998 and an honorary membership from the European Anthropological Association in 2008. Along with anthropology, genetics and serology, his research interests also included the history of science. He died at the age of 78 years because of the consequential complications from a stroke that had occurred to him 11 months earlier from his death. Early life and family Walter was born to Hilde and Helmut Walter on 14 April 1930 at Charlottenburg in Berlin, Germany. His father was a painter. In 1934, the family moved to Einbeck, where at the Goethe School in 1950, he completed his Abitur. He married Heide Krüger in 1954. She was his former schoolmate, and she died in 1995. They had 3 sons and 1 daughter, namely Erk, Kai, Jörn and Vibeke.