Albrecht Hase

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Arndt Michael Albrecht Hase (born March 16, 1882 in Schmölln ; † November 20, 1962 in Berlin-Dahlem ) was a German entomologist and parasitologist , known for pest control of lice during the First World War and afterwards, also using poison gas .

Life

Hase studied natural sciences at the Universities of Marburg, Kiel, Halle an der Saale and Jena, passed the state examination for higher education in 1908 and received his doctorate in 1907 . During his studies he became a member of the Arminia Marburg fraternity in 1903 . In 1910 he became an assistant at the Zoological Institute of the Agricultural University in Berlin and in 1911 at the University of Jena, where he completed his habilitation and in 1914 became an associate professor in the Zoological Institute headed by Ludwig Plate . During the First World War , he successfully dealt with pest control of lice, which transmitted typhus in the armies and the population . To this end, he volunteered in 1915 and was employed as a field doctor and officer, studying the lice plague, particularly in occupied Poland. Even after the First World War, he worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin , headed by Fritz Haber , with the use of poison gas against pests, especially lice and other blood-sucking insects. On behalf of Haber, who wanted to make the experience of the gas war usable for pest control, he had already tested the widespread use of hydrogen cyanide (which had been tested as a poisonous gas by Haber and colleagues) on the Eastern Front and in Poland for delousing as early as 1917 . After the war he developed with the toxicologists Ferdinand Flury at Haber's Institute cyclone A (the forerunner of the later by the Nazis in the mass murder of the Jews used Zyklon B ) and published with this about 1920. In 1919, he turned cyanide and arsenic compounds on behalf of Haber also against forest pests such as the pine moth at a test station built for this purpose near Guben . Here, iron bombs and thermite detonators that had been tried and tested in the use of poison gas were used to distribute the pesticide (Haber also had plans to drop aircraft). From 1920 he worked at the Biological Reichsanstalt for Agriculture and Forestry in Berlin-Dahlem, where he was senior government councilor in 1926. He also taught at the Social Hygiene Academy. In the Second World War he was again involved in the army with pest control and then as a department head at the successor to the Biological Reichsanstalt, the Federal Biological Institute for Agriculture and Forestry in Berlin-Dahlem. He also taught applied zoology at the University of Berlin . From 1949 he was a professor at the Free University of Berlin .

In 1928 he founded the magazine for Parasitenkunde and was its co-editor until 1961 with interruptions from 1944 to 1948.

He developed methods for breeding blood-sucking insects and researched their biology with the aim of obtaining methods for their control.

In 1938/39 he was President of the German Zoological Society .

In 1957 he became a member of the Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (Section: Zoology). In 1962 he became an honorary member of the German Society for Parasitology.

family

Albrecht Hase married Eva (* 1888) in Hanover in 1918 , daughter of the Hanover merchant Julius Kugelmann and Louise Bauer. He and his wife had two sons and a daughter, including the surgeon Ottheinrich Hase (* 1921), who specialized in internal organ transplantation, and Gerda Hase, who married the professor of historical geography H. Roy Merrens (* 1931).

Fonts

  • Contributions to the biology of the clothes louse, Journal for Applied Entomology, Volume 2, 1915, pp. 265–359
  • Observations and investigations into the lice of the troops at the front, German Military Medical Journal, Volume 45, 1916, pp. 291-308
  • On the control of bed bugs (Cimex lectularius L.) with hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid), Journal of Applied Entomology, Volume 4, 1918, pp. 297-309
  • Practical advice on delousing the civilian population in Russian Poland, Berlin 1915
  • Experimental investigations on the question of lice control, Journal for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases, Volume 8, 1916, pp. 319-378
  • Zoology and its achievements in the war 1914/18. At the same time a contribution to applied zoology in Germany, Die Naturwissenschaften, Volume 7, 1919, pp. 105–112
  • About the first German forest entomological field station, Journal for Applied Entomology, Volume 6, 1920, pp. 390-400
  • Campaign against insects: War memories, in: 20 Years of Pest Control, Ed. Von der Degesch, Frankfurt 1937, pp. 21–33
  • As a zoologist in war, at the same time a contribution to applied entomology in war, Der Biologe, Volume 10, 1936, pp. 331-340

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Piekarski, Gerhard:  Hase, Arndt Michael Albrecht. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 20 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. Directory of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 177.
  3. ↑ Flury, Hase, Hydrocyanic acid derivatives for pest control, Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift , Volume 67, 1920, pp. 779-780
  4. ^ Member entry of Albrecht Hase at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 10, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hare, Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hase, Arndt Michael Albrecht (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entomologist and parasitologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmoelln
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1962
Place of death Berlin-Dahlem