Dietwart Nehring

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Dietwart Nehring (born December 30, 1930 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) worked as a chemical oceanographer from 1965, initially at the Warnemünde Institute for Oceanography of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and finally - until 1997 - as head of the marine chemistry section at the Institute for Baltic Sea Research .

Life

Nehring spent the first years of childhood in his hometown Königsberg together with his parents and his two years older sister. His mother, Charlotte Nehring, nee Bark, (* 1906, † 1972), worked with Kurt Nehring (* 1898, † 1988) as a clerk at an international ship broker and marine insurer before they married in 1927 . The father had studied chemistry in Freiburg and Königsberg, received his doctorate there in 1921 and qualified as a professor in 1928 at the Albertus University of Königsberg in the subject of agricultural chemistry. He worked at the Königsberg University as a scientist until he was appointed professor at the University of Jena in 1935 , where he headed the Agricultural Research Station.

The family moved from Jena to Rostock after Kurt Nehring was appointed director of the Rostock Agricultural Research Station in 1936. The Hanseatic and university town of Nehring became a new home. Dietwart Nehring grew up here with his siblings: Gila (* 1928), Herlinde (* May 20, 1936). Alfried (* 1939), the later film producer and screenwriter, and Hartmut (* 1944).

Attending school and studying

Easter 1937 Nehring started school in the suburban boys' school in Rostock. Due to the war, he was only able to obtain his Abitur at the age of 19 in the "Great City School", the former high school at the Rosengarten in Rostock. In the 12th grade, he passed the written and oral Abitur exams, including physics and history as oral compulsory subjects. In chemistry he received a “very good” as a preliminary censorship and a “good” in the written exam. His career aspiration to become a chemist like his father was consolidated.

After applying for a degree and with the reputation of his professor's father, he was able to enroll at the University of Rostock on September 26, 1950. His university lecturers were: Günther Rienäcker (* 1904, † 1989), Inorganic Experimental Chemistry; Wolfgang Langenbeck (* 1899; † 1967), organic experimental chemistry; Paul Julius Kunze (* 1897; † 1986), experimental physics. In the winter semester 1952/53 Nehring also enrolled in the matriculation for the subject of microbiology. In 1954 he prepared his diploma thesis under Professor Langenbeck, who at that time held the chair for organic chemistry at the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale). After changing university in 1955, Nehring spent the tenth semester there in order to pass the diploma examination with the grade “very good”. He further developed the findings from his diploma thesis for a doctorate under the supervision of doctoral supervisor Langenbeck and submitted the doctoral thesis to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Halle in summer 1957. On the basis of this scientific work on mixed salt contacts and the passed oral examinations, he was awarded "the title of Doctor of Natural Sciences". This was accompanied by the appointment as senior assistant at the then Institute for Organic Catalysis Research in Rostock from 1955 to 1960, which was founded in 1952 by Professors Langenbeck and Rienäcker.

Places of work

During the GDR era, his main areas of activity were the then Institute for Inland Fisheries in Berlin-Friedrichshagen from 1960 to 1964 and the Institute for Oceanography of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR from 1965 to 1991 and, in unified Germany, the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde an der University of Rostock from 1992 to 1997.

As a graduate chemist, Nehring was involved in a “process for the production of highly active catalysts by mixing carbonates and hydroxides”. It was patented and given the priority date November 14, 1957

From July 1, 1992, he worked on a voluntary basis as a member of the advisory board of the Helgoland Biological Institute (Helgoland Sea Station), the chairman of which was the biologist Gotthilf Hempel .

His research areas in professional life included oceanography, the environment, analytical chemistry, water chemistry, environmental chemistry, limnology and ecology .

Expert in maritime research trips

Nehring first worked on board an ocean-going research ship in 1966. From his new job in Warnemünde, he was delegated to the research vessel Ernst Haeckel , which was specially equipped for fishery biology studies, together with another oceanographer, to carry out accompanying research in the waters of the Patagonian Shelf from August to December 1966. In his memories of his working life as a marine chemist since 1965, Nehring devoted himself, among other things, to research vessels (FS), in particular to his nomination as an >> expert << for the planning of oceanographic expeditions and the cooperation with African coastal neighbors. Looking back, he also described unsatisfactory working and living conditions on board the FS A. v. Humboldt in GDR times. After reunification, he took part in a research trip aboard RV Meteor as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) from February 9 to March 23, 1991. At the end of his 31-year career as a marine researcher on April 30, 1997, Nehring had spent more than five years on research vessels.

Personal

Nehring married his long-time school friend Inge at the end of January 1956, after he became engaged to her in 1955. The couple was married in church by the first full-time student pastor of Rostock University, Gustav Scharnweber (* 1910, † 1981). One of their first experiences together before they got married was a visit to the Evangelical Lutheran main church in Rostock in autumn 1951 and the ascent of the tower over the belfry to the platform under the tower dome to have a wide view of the Hanseatic city and its surroundings. The marriage resulted in a son, Andreas, born in 1956, and a daughter, Katharina. She was born during Nehring's time in Berlin in 1964, when the scientist was professionally involved in fishery research. The family's church ties were expressed in GDR times through the confirmation of the children and through occasional visits to the Evangelical Lutheran church services, mainly on Christmas Eve .

As emeritus, Nehring received a visiting professorship at the University of Namibia in 1999, which Gotthilf Hempel placed for him through the German Academic Exchange Service . He already had the scientific qualification in 1981 with a scientific thesis on the topic: “The nutrient regime of the Baltic Sea, its changes in the period 1969 to 1978. Causes and Effects ”and he was appointed professor in 1983.

Fonts (selection)

  • On a research trip in the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic - memories of an oceanographer with a foreword by Gotthilf Hempel . Rostock 2002; ISBN 3-933574-54-4
  • A sea under control. Research object Baltic Sea together with Eberhard Francke. In: Jahrbuch der Schiffahrt, born 1979, edited by Manfred Neumann, Berlin 1978, pp. 135-138
  • As coordinator together with Hans Obenaus: Haack Atlas Weltmeer , Gotha 1989; ISBN 978-3-7301-0010-3
  • From swastika to hammer, compass, wreath of ears. Stations of my life ; ISBN 3-933574-74-9
  • Together with Wolfgang Matthäus: The hydrographic-chemical conditions in the western and central Baltic Sea from 1979 to 1988 , Warnemünde 1990
  • Participation in oceanography of the Baltic Sea , editor Gerhard Rheinheimer , Berlin uaO 1995; ISBN 3-540-59351-9
  • Salt water ingress into the Baltic Sea - a review . In: "Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Wolfgang Matthäus"; Ed .: Wolfgang Fennel and Barbara Hentzsch, Warnemünde 2003, pp. 16–25
  • Chingen and others , contained in: Rostocker Zorenappels. City writer story (s) . Redieck & Schade GmbH, Rostock, Vol. 8/2014, pp. 101-105
  • The oceanological observation material from the measurement run from 21.9. to South Africa until December 20, 1976 , co-authors: Rudolf Schemainda, Sigurd Schulz; Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin 1979
  • Oceanological studies on the production potential of the northwest African upwelling region 1970 - 1973 , co-authors: Rudolf Schemainda, Erich Bruns, Sigurd Schulz. National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin 1975.
  • Oceanological studies of the GDR in the north-eastern North Sea from 1965 to 1969 ; plus individual examinations in the Kattegat . Co-authors: Herbert Franck, Sigurd Schulz; Berlin. National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Berlin 1972

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nehring, Dietwart: On a research trip in the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic - memories of an oceanographer . Rostock 2002, (Book Description on the cover); ISBN 3-933574-54-4
  2. ^ German biography: Kurt Nehring, Genealogie
  3. ↑ Tabular curriculum vitae of Alfried Nehring in the film portal Alfried Nehring
  4. ↑ Dissertation of November 9, 1957, available in the German National Library, available in Frankfurt and Leipzig
  5. ^ Nehring, Dietwart: From swastika to hammer, circle, wreath of ears. Stations of my life , p. 317ff .; ISBN 3-933574-74-9
  6. ↑ German invention: DE1054968B; Google patents
  7. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2018, keyword: Nehring, Dietwart, Vol. 3, p. 2579; Publisher: De Gruyter Berlin / Boston; ISBN 978-3-11-051766-8
  8. ^ Nehring. Dietwart: On a research trip in the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic - memories of an oceanographer . Rostock 2002, p. 57; ISBN 3-933574-54-4
  9. ↑ Nehring, D. / Brosin, H.-J. : Oceanographic observations in the equatorial Atlantic and on the Patagonian shelf during the 1st South Atlantic expedition with the fisheries research vessel Ernst Haeckel from August to December 1966 . In: "Geodetic and geophysical publications". Issue 3/1968 (publisher: German Academy of Sciences, National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics of the GDR), Berlin 1968.
  10. ↑ die hochschule 1/2015, p. 181 journal for science and education. Edited by Peer Pasternack for the Institute for University Research (HoF) at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Editor: Daniel Hechler; ISSN  1618-9671 , DNB portal
  11. ^ Nehring, Dietwart: On a research trip in the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic - memories of an oceanographer . Rostock 2002, p. 270f .; ISBN 3-933574-54-4
  12. ^ Brosin, Hans-Jürgen : From the Georgius Agricola to A. v. Humboldt S. (7-38) 15. In: Historisch-meereskundliches Jahrbuch, Volume 11 (2005); ISSN  0943-5697
  13. ^ Nehring, Dietwart: On a research trip in the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic - memories of an oceanographer . Rostock 2002, p. 289f .; ISBN 3-933574-54-4
  14. ^ Nehring, Dietwart: On a research trip in the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic - memories of an oceanographer . Rostock 2002, p. 301; ISBN 3-933574-54-4
  15. ↑ Berlin, Academy of Sciences in the GDR, Dissertation B , 1981
  16. ^ Nehring. Dietwart: On a research trip in the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic - memories of an oceanographer. Rostock 2002, p. 265; ISBN 3-933574-54-4
  17. ↑ Marine science reports MARINE SCIENCE REPORTS No. 54; DNB portal
personal data
SURNAME Nehring, Dietwart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nehring, Dietwart Kurt Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, oceanographer and oceanographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)