Alfred Kühn

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Alfred Richard Wilhelm Kühn (born April 22, 1885 in Baden-Baden , † November 22, 1968 in Tübingen ) was a German zoologist and geneticist .

Career

Kühn's grave in the main cemetery in Freiburg im Breisgau

Alfred Kühn studied zoology and physiology in Freiburg from 1904 to 1908, and completed his habilitation in 1910. From 1914 Kühn was an associate professor at the University of Freiburg . During his time in Freiburg in 1914 he married Margarethe Geiges (1888–1987), the daughter of the glass painter Fritz Geiges . The marriage remained childless. In 1916 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1918, Alfred Kühn was an assistant and private lecturer at the University of Berlin . From 1920 he was professor of zoology and genetics at the University of Göttingen .

After the seizure of power of the Nazis Kühn was in 1934 together with Martin Staemmler and Friedrich Burgdörfer one of the authors of the book Erbkunde, race care, population policy. Questions of fate for the German people . Hereditary biologist Günther Just was one of his academic students . In 1935 he received a positive assessment from the NS-Gaueitung Süd-Hannover-Braunschweig, which said among other things: " That he does his work in our sense without feeling connected to the NSDAP ". From 1937 Kühn was director at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin-Dahlem. In addition to his research activities, he was editor of the journal for inductive descent and inheritance theory and later also clerk for genetics at the journal Der Biologe, which was taken over from the SS-Ahnenerbe . In 1937 he was chairman of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . From 1942 Kühn was a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society.

After the end of the Second World War , he received a chair at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen in 1945 . From 1951 to 1958 he was director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology and also professor for zoology at the University of Tübingen.

His research areas were genetics and developmental physiology, especially in insects.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Outline of general zoology for students. Thieme, Leipzig 1922; 17th edition 1969.
  • The orientation of the animals in space. Fischer, Jena 1919.
  • with Hans Piepho : About hormonal effects in pupation of butterflies. In: News from the Society of Sciences in Göttingen. Mathematical-physical class, Fachgruppe 6, NF, Vol. 2 (1936), No. 9, pp. 141-154.
  • Outline of heredity. Quelle and Meyer, Leipzig 1939.
  • On the developmental physiology of butterfly metamorphosis. In: VII. International Congress of Entomology: Negotiations. Uschmann, Weimar 1939/40.
  • [Review of:] Günther Just, Handbuch der Erbbiologie des Menschen. In: The natural sciences. Volume 30, 1942, pp. 474-476.
  • Lectures on developmental physiology. Springer, Berlin 1955.
  • Attempts to develop a model of gene effects. In: The natural sciences . Vol. 43 (January 1956), H. 2, pp. 25-28, doi: 10.1007 / BF00637519 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hansjochem Autrum :  Kühn, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 192 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Member entry by Alfred Kühn at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 348.
  4. ↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (also dissertation Würzburg 1995), p. 156.
  5. ^ Quotation from Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 348.
  6. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 141.
personal data
SURNAME Bold, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kühn, Alfred Richard Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1968
Place of death Tübingen