Werner Schuster

Who is Werner Schuster?

Rudolf Werner Schuster was a Tanganyika-born German physician, specialist in health informatics, and SPD politician.

Raised in a colonial East African household, Schuster studied medicine at the University of Tübingen in the 1960s and during his professional career worked mostly in health informatics and medical computer science. He was a city councillor at Idstein for seventeen years before serving as a member of the Bundestag from 1990 until his death. On the national stage he concerned himself with health and Africa and the fight against AIDS.