Abstract
Hans Georg Truper, former president of FEMS, passed away quite unexpectedly on March 9, 2016, just one week before his 80th birthday. Born in 1936, in a village close to the Northern German trading town Bremen, Hans grew up in the traditions of classical German education, combined with the open mind of a seaport town. After finishing high school, he studied biology at the University of Marburg and discovered his first scientific love in botany. He moved to the University of Gottingen and met the microbiologist Hans Gunther Schlegel at the renowned Microbiology Institute. He, and later Norbert Pfennig, inspired him to study the anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria, their physiology, biochemistry, and ecology, which … [↵][1]* Corresponding author: Fachbereich Biologie, Universitaet Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Universitaetsstr. 10. Tel: +49-7531-882140; Fax: +49-7531-884047; E-mail: Bernhard.Schink{at}uni-konstanz.de [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1
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