Some Personal Memories of Otto Scherzer

At last year's M&M meeting, the birth centennial of Otto Scherzer, one of the pioneers of electron optics and particularly the correction of electron-optical lenses, was remembered in a special symposium. His scientific achievements have been extensively described in an article by Marko and Rose (2010). Here we try to recollect some personal memories of Otto Scherzer from the time we spent at the “Institut fur theoretische Physik” at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (now Technische Universitat Darmstadt).