The Pharmaceutical Training Institute of the Health Council in Hamburg (1824-1935)

The pharmaceutical training institute served to train apprentices and assistants, as well as to provide preliminary training for pharmacists. It was therefore purely an educational institution and not a research institution. It was also not a direct precursor of the university, but nevertheless an important step towards a scientific education of pharmacists in Hamburg. Some of its teachers played a decisive role in the development of pharmacy in Hamburg and were important pharmacists and researchers. In 1894, the official gazette of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg described the Lehranstalt as follows: "The pharmaceutical training institute is a scientific institution belonging to the Hamburg State and maintained by the same". From 1899 onwards, the lectures of the institute were listed in the Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten (Yearbook of the Hamburg Scientific Institutes).

The Pharmaceutical Teaching Institute of the Health Council in Hamburg was founded in 1824. From 1871 it bore the name Pharmaceutical Teaching Institute of the Medical College in Hamburg. It was finally dissolved in 1935.

Initially, classes were held in rooms of the Botanical Garden, later in a room in the town house and then, until 1850, in a room reserved for this purpose in the Realschule of the Johanneum. After that it had to move several times until it found a place in the building of the Botanical Museum. From 1907 it was in the new building for the Botanical State Institutes in Jungiusstrasse.

The files on the school were destroyed in the great fire of 1842, so that today not all teachers can be assigned with certainty.

The head of the educational institution was in each case the pharmaceutical member of the Health Council or Assessor for Pharmacy in the Medical College, from 1920 the Council for Pharmacy:

• Prof. Dr. Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Director of the Botanical Garden Systematic Botany
• Pharmacist Dr. Johann Hinrich Christian Oberdörffer
      Encyclopedia and Methodology of Pharmacy
• Herr Dr. Georg Hartog Gerson
      Physics
• Dr. Georg Eimbcke
      Experimental-Chemistry
• Pharmacist Christoph Christian Ulrich Noodt
         Pharmacy