Alfred Einhellinger

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Alfred Einhellinger (born February 26, 1913 in Munich ; † March 27, 1999 ibid) was a German musician , painter and mycologist . His botanical-mycological author's abbreviation is “ Einhell. ".

Alfred Einhellinger was born the son of a fashion salon owner and grew up in Schwabing . His musical talent was discovered and promoted early on, as was his drawing and language skills. After graduating from high school in 1932, he began an apprenticeship as a bookseller and, after breaking off the apprenticeship, worked from 1934 to 1939 as an administrative clerk at the city's main treasury.

In 1939 Einhellinger, who had continued to study music in addition to his professional activity, applied as a violinist with the Munich Philharmonic , where he was appointed first violinist. His activity as a musician was interrupted by his service as a soldier from 1941 to 1944 and his subsequent internment in British captivity after he had deserted in Greece. During this imprisonment he was, among other things, first concertmaster of the Suez Canal North Symphony Orchestra. Erhart Kästner describes in his novel Tent Book by Tumilad the situation of the prisoners in the Egyptian desert camp. Alfred Einhellinger served Kästner as a template for concertmaster Fritz. In 1958 he was appointed chamber musician. In 1970 Einhellinger had to give up his activity as a violinist for health reasons.

In his youth, Einhellinger showed, in addition to his artistic and linguistic interests, a passion for nature, plants and animals. On concert tours that took him to many countries around the world, for example, he regularly collected plants which, when he returned to Munich, he determined and often recorded in watercolors. The Munich area was also Einhellinger's field of study for his collections and research during the orchestra rehearsal phases. Einhellinger also made a name for himself as an ornithologist by making the first observation of the bearded tit (1959), the ear lark (1963) and the second German record of the gray-breasted sandpiper Calidris melanotos (1958).

He first published his research in the field of mushroom science in studies on mushrooms in oak-hornbeam forests in the Munich area, in the Garching Heath , the Isar floodplains and in the Murnauer Moos . One of his main works, however, was the monograph of the Bavarian Täublinge , which was illustrated by Helga Marxmüller. Einhellinger has described a number of new mushroom species or subspecies.

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literature

  • Werner Jurkeit: Alfred Einhellinger 1913–1999. In: Zeitschrift für Mykologie 66/2 (2000), pp. 115-122.

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personal data
SURNAME Einhellinger, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Einhell. (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, painter and mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1999
Place of death Munich