Otto Renner

German botanist, geneticist and university teacher (1883-1960).

Otto Renner (25 April 1883 in Neu-Ulm – 8 July 1960) was a German plant geneticist. Following the work of Erwin Baur, Renner established the theory of maternal plastid inheritance as a widely accepted genetic theory. He studied botany under Karl von Goebel and Ludwig Radlkofer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and with Wilhelm Pfeffer at the University of Leipzig. From 1913 to 1920, he served as an associate professor of plant physiology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and afterwards succeeded Christian Ernst Stahl as chair of botany at the University of Jena, wher