Bruno Weber (museum director)

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Bruno Weber (born August 5, 1909 in Hanover ; † January 23, 1997 in Haldensleben ) was a German museum director and conservationist .

Life

Weber was born in Hanover and attended school in Eldagsen . Due to the economic situation, he was unable to realize his career aspirations as a forester or veterinarian. He was trained as an administrative specialist in the Eldags municipal administration. On November 1, 1934, he was employed by the city administration in Neuhaldensleben and passed the first administrative examination there. In 1939 he married Edith Lilge. In 1941 he passed the hunter test and began ringing birds at the ornithological stations in Helgoland , Radolfzell and later at Hiddensee . Weber took part in the war as a soldier from 1941 and was a prisoner of war until 1946. During his internment in Italy, he met the naturalist and later Berlin zoo director Heinrich Dathe .

Museum work

In November 1947 Weber was appointed museum representative of the National Education Office. In this role he began to rebuild the Haldensleben Museum, which was destroyed in the Second World War . In 1952 he was appointed deputy museum director. In 1959 Weber completed his training as a museologist specializing in natural sciences. From 1960 to 1976 he was employed as director of the Haldensleber Museum. His great merit lies in the re-establishment of the museum, for which collections of the museum that had dispersed during the war had to be brought together and the building had to be repaired.

natural reserve

From 1948 to 1984 Weber also worked as a district commissioner for nature conservation . In addition to ornithology , he devoted himself particularly to research on small mammals - an activity that was also reflected in the natural science collection and exhibition of the museum. Since 1954, the fauna and flora of the Drömling , a former lowland moor, became his main project. Thanks to his efforts, the “Südliche Drömling” was designated as a landscape protection area in 1967 ; An otter sanctuary was established in 1979 and two curlew sanctuaries in 1981 and 1983 . Weber kept very detailed diaries on Drömling, which are still helpful to the employees of the nature park today. They were published by the Drömling Nature Park Administration shortly after his death .

Another area of ​​interest Weber was in the observation and documentation of stork nests and offspring. From 1955 he meticulously collected all data on Horsten in what was then the district of Haldensleben for 30 years, for this purpose he had set up a "reporting network". His ornithological interest went beyond recording the white stork population and concerned many other bird species.

Bruno Weber belonged to the state commission for ornithology and bird protection of Saxony-Anhalt from 1951 and was a member of the district technical committee ornithology Magdeburg until 1969. He published well over 100 publications in specialist journals and the popular press; About 1,500 more articles were published in the local press on him and his high-profile nature conservation work. He also left an extensive collection of color slides on the flora and fauna. Bruno Weber maintained an intensive correspondence with many well-known naturalists of his time, in addition to Dathe, for example, with Robert März and Erna Mohr . He was honorary chairman of the Ornithological Working Group Haldensleben e. V. and at Aktion Drömling Schutz e. V. active.

Works (selection)

  • The hamster and its distribution in the Haldensleben district , in: Annual journal of the Haldensleben district museum, No. 1, 1960, pp. 57–62.
  • Vom Siebenschläfer in the Haldensleben district , in: Annual publication of the Haldensleben district museum, No. 4, 1963, pp. 74–86.
  • Contribution to the nutrition of the owls and the distribution of the small mammals in Haldensleben and the surrounding area , in: Annual journal of the district museum Haldensleben, No. 8, 1967, pp. 79-95.
  • The vertebrates of the nature reserve “Wellenberge / Rüsterberg” , in: Annual journal of the district museum Haldensleben, No. 9, 1968, pp. 83-102.
  • The protected vertebrates of the Haldensleben district , in: Annual publication of the Haldensleben district museum, No. 16, 1975, pp. 67–84.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marita Bullmann, 1854 young storks flown out in 60 years , March 18, 2016, Volksstimme (Haldensleben)
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German museum director and nature conservation officer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1997
Place of death Haldensleben