Anneliese Niethammer

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Anneliese Niethammer (born May 11, 1901 in Berlin-Charlottenburg , † September 15, 1983 in Korntal-Münchingen ) was a German botanist and the first female professor at the University of Stuttgart . Your official botanical author abbreviation is “ Nieth. ".

Life

Anneliese Niethammer was born in 1901 as the daughter of Friedrich Niethammer and his wife Anna in an academic environment. She first grew up in Brno , as her father was a professor there at the Austrian university. The family later moved to Prague , where Anneliese Niethammer graduated from high school and then went to university. She graduated both in agricultural sciences from the Technical University and in botany from the University of Prague . In 1925 she completed both courses with a doctorate .

She then took on an assistant position at the Institute of Botany at the TH Prague. In 1929 she completed her habilitation with a thesis on "stimulation problems on plants" and worked as a lecturer. From 1935 she completed a teaching degree in chemistry, zoology and geography and then taught at the German Commercial Academy in Prague. In 1941 she was appointed professor there.

After the Second World War, the Niethammer family was interned, during which Anneliese's mother died, and expelled from Prague. Anneliese Niethammer moved to Korntal with her father in 1945 and received a teaching position at the Technical University of Stuttgart the following year . She was habilitated for the subject "Applied Botany" and in 1947 was appointed as a non-civil unplanned professor . This was the first time that a professorship at the University of Stuttgart was filled with a woman. She earned her living as a teacher at the higher commercial school in Ludwigsburg , where she taught chemistry and biology until she retired in 1966. She held lectures at the University of Stuttgart until 1970.

Anneliese Niethammer spent her retirement in Kornfeld, where she died in 1983. In her honor, a street near the Stuttgart University campus in Vaihingen was named Anneliese-Niethammer-Weg.

research

Anneliese Niethammer researched mainly in the field of technical mycology and the stimulation of plant development processes. Among other things, she researched the growth and importance of microscopic soil fungi and published several scientific papers on the subject. Furthermore, she dealt with biochemical-physiological studies on the ripening of seeds and fruits. In addition to gaining theoretical knowledge, her research was also geared towards practical use in various areas of application such as agriculture, horticulture and medicine.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Anneliese Niethammer - first professor at the university , Stuttgart unikurier No. 88 December 2001

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