Werner Fischer: key obituary facts
Is Werner Fischer dead? Yes. Werner Fischer died on October 4, 2026, at age 95.
Cause of death: Werner Fischer's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Werner Fischer known for?
He was a German mineralogist.
More about Werner Fischer
Werner Fischer, a German mineralogist and mathematical crystallographer known for work on coordination sequences and lattice complexes, died October 4, 2026, in Emden, aged 95.
Born in Jablonec nad Nisou on February 8, 1931, he completed his Abitur in 1951 in Kappeln an der Schlei. With support from the German National Academic Foundation, he studied at the universities of Stuttgart and Kiel, where he earned a doctorate in 1959 with a dissertation on structural studies of synthetic carnallite.
Fischer habilitated at Philipps University of Marburg in 1970 and was employed by the university. His research in mathematical crystallography encompassed periodic minimal surfaces, sphere packings, effective areas, normalizers and lattice complexes, as well as the description of crystal structures. He also contributed to work on the International Tables for Crystallography. Much of this research was undertaken in collaboration with crystallographer Elke Koch. Fischer was a recipient of the Carl-Hermann Medal. His work brought together mineralogy and mathematical approaches to the study and description of crystal structures, with lattice complexes among the subjects associated with his name.