Clemens Giese

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Clemens Giese (born April 19, 1879 in Arnsberg ; † February 5, 1961 in Arnsberg) was a staff veterinarian, employee in the Reich Health Office and Ministry of the Interior and one of the pioneers of German animal welfare.

Life

He was born in Arnsberg in 1879. After attending primary school and the Laurentianum grammar school in Arnsberg , Giese studied veterinary medicine . During his studies he became a member of the Obotritia Berlin fraternity in 1900 . The doctor of veterinary medicine then became a staff veterinarian. In 1910 Giese came to the Reich Health Office . From 1925 he took over the management of the veterinary department in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. Five years later he became a ministerial advisor. During the Nazi era, Clemens Giese and the lawyer Waldemar Kahler were responsible for drawing up the first German Animal Welfare Act (then the Reich Animal Welfare Act of November 24, 1933). On January 10, 1936, the German Society for Animal Psychology was founded in Berlin. Giese was a member of the company's original advisory board. After the Second World War, Giese became the head of the veterinary department in the Agriculture and Forestry Administration of the Soviet-occupied Zone. From there he went back to Arnsberg in 1948. He played a key role in the meat inspection law and gave impetus to convene the World Animal Protection Congress. Giese was Vice President of the World Animal Protection Association until his death in 1961 .

Works (excerpt)

Clemens Giese published 70 scientific papers.

  • Clemens Giese: Contributions to the architecture of cancellous bone and the statistics and mechanics of the fetlock and crown bone in the regular, floor-wide and floor-tight position of the horse , 1909
  • Clemens Giese, Waldemar Kahler: The German Reich Animal Protection Act of November 24th , Weidmann, 1933
  • Clemens Giese, Waldemar Kahler: The German animal protection law: Provisions for the protection of animals , Duncker & Humblot, 1937
  • Clemens Giese: The German animal protection legislation. in: Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 1, 187–188, 1937
  • Clemens Giese: On the establishment of the German Society for Animal Psychology. in: Deutsches Tierärzteblatt 14, 329–330, 1938
  • Clemens Giese: Review of this year's annual meeting of the German Society for Animal Psychology. in: Deutsches Tierärzteblatt 20, 399–401, 1938
  • Clemens Giese, L. Himmel: The meat inspection law of October 29, 1940 with the associated ordinances and implementation provisions , Schaper, 1952

Honors

In 1954 he was appointed ministerial director to compensate for his resignation during the Nazi era. On March 9, 1957, Giese received the Great Cross of Merit . On the occasion of his 80th year of life, he received an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1959 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the Veterinary Medical Library FU Berlin ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bib.vetmed.fu-berlin.de
  2. ↑ a b De Suerlaender home calendar: Dr. Dr. hc Clemens Giese - Father of Animal Welfare , p. 17, 1963
  3. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 145.
  4. ↑ Joachim Radkau, Frank Uekötter: Nature Conservation and National Socialism , p. 85, (Google Books) , Campus Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3593373548
  5. ↑ Britt von den Berg: Die Neue Tierpsychologie und their scientific representatives (from 1900 to 1945) , p. 142, dissertation (PDF; 8.1 MB), Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, 2008
  6. ↑ Martin Broszat, Hermann Weber (eds.): SBZ manual state administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945-1949 . Munich 1993, p. 910
  7. ↑ Freie Universität Berlin - List of honorary doctorates accessed on May 26, 2010 ( Memento from February 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Giese, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian and pioneer of German animal welfare
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsberg
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1961
Place of death Arnsberg