Our highly esteemed colleague Professor Walter Oelert passed away on November 25, 2024. Walter Oelert was born in Dortmund on July 14, 1942. He studied physics in Hamburg and Heidelberg, got his diploma in 1969 with a work on solid state detectors in Hamburg and finished his doctoral thesis in 1973 with a work on transfer reactions on samarium isotopes in Hamburg. As postdoc he stayed for two years from 1973 to 1975 with Professor Cohen in Pittsburg doing nuclear physics mainly in the field…