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Detlev Ploog (born Hamburg on 29 November 1920, died Munich 7 December 2005) was a German clinical psychiatrist, primate behavior researcher and anthropologist. He was a soldier in the Second World War, received his medical doctorate from the University of Marburg in 1945, was a director of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry and a professor at the University of Munich. [1] [2]
Ploog received the German Order of Merit [1] in 1980.[ citation needed ]