Ekkehard Foerster

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Ekkehard Foerster (2005)

Ekkehard Foerster (born May 4, 1927 in Breslau ) is a German botanist and conservationist. For many decades he researched the plant communities of western German economic grasslands (meadows and pastures).

Life

Ekkehard Foerster was born as the eldest of five sons of the senior student councilor Friedrich Foerster and his wife Maria, geb. Liedl, born. After the family moved, he grew up in Danzig-Oliva , where his father was the director of the grammar school. He passed his school leaving examination in Kaufbeuren in 1947 . He then completed an agricultural apprenticeship and studies in agriculture at the University of Bonn , which he graduated with a diploma in 1952. On May 24, 1955, he received his doctorate there with the dissertation “A contribution to the knowledge of self-regeneration of permanent pastures”. It contains the first German studies on the diaspore bank of grassland soils. As an assistant to Professor Ernst folding Foerster soon made a name as a specialist for mapping business grassland on phytosociological basis.

In the following decades Foerster worked in the research center for grassland and forage production of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Kleve -Kellen, then in "Department 4, Grassland and Agroecology" of the State Institute for Ecology, Landscape Development and Forest Planning ( LÖLF ). During this time, he and his colleagues took around 15,000 vegetation photographs, mainly in commercial grassland. For the practice of grassland mapping, this work has not lost its relevance.

For many years, Foerster was in charge of the Lower Rhine regional office for floristic mapping on a voluntary basis . Because of his extensive knowledge of West German flora, he was co-author of the North Rhine-Westphalian flora list and the red list of fern and flowering plants.

In addition, Foerster created and improved practicable identification keys for difficult to distinguish representatives of many native species groups, for example the genera Allium , Carex , Juncus , Eleocharis , Rosa , Trichophorum and Veronica .

Foerster is one of the founding members of the Society for Research into the Flora of Germany .

Dedication names

  • Trichophorum x foersteri (Swan) DA Simpson Basionym: Trichophorum cespitosum nothosubsp. foersteri Swan
  • Rubus foersteri Matzk. (Foersters hazel leaf blackberry)

Scientific work (selection)

  • A contribution to the knowledge of the self-regeneration of permanent pastures, in: Zeitschrift für Acker- und Pflanzenbau, 100, 273-301 (1956)
  • Key to determining the species of the genus Allium L. that grow wild in Germany in the flowerless state, in: Mitteilungen der Floristische-Soziologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft, NF 9, 5-7 (1962)
  • The water honor group, in: Göttinger Florist Rundbriefe, 1 (3), 10-11 (1967)
  • Identification key for rushes according to predominantly vegetative characteristics, in: Göttinger Floristische Rundbriefe, 5, 19-23 (1971)
  • The genus Eleocharis, in: Göttinger Floristische Rundbriefe, 6, 96-101 (1972)
  • Bolboschoenus maritimus (L.) Palla, in: Göttinger Floristische Rundbriefe, 6, 101 (1972)
  • Key to determining three-line leafy sedge of the north German lowlands according to predominantly vegetative characteristics, in: Göttinger Floristische Rundbriefe, 16, 3-21 (1981)
  • Plant communities of the grassland in North Rhine-Westphalia, in: Series of publications of the State Institute for Ecology, Landscape Development u. Forest planning North Rhine-Westphalia, Recklinghausen, Volume 8 (1983), 71 pages, ISSN  0177-8102
  • Sedges, rushes, cornices and other mock grasses of grassland - A key to determining in the blossomless state, 31 p., (1989), polycopy

literature

  • Anonymous: Ekkehard Foerster 65 years. - Nature on the Lower Rhine (NF) 7 (2): pp. 3–5. Publisher: Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein zu Krefeld eV 1992, ISSN  0930-6935 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gymnasium Oliva, in: Gedanopedia (Danziger Enzyklopädie) (online)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gedanopedia.pl  
  2. ^ A. Neitzke, R. Bornkessel, E. Foerster, "Grassland mapping North Rhine-Westphalia, methodology and work instructions", State Institute for Ecology, Land Management and Forests NRW (2004, 2012)
  3. ^ DA Simpson in Kew Bulletin 62 (1), 165 (2007)
  4. ↑ George Albert Swan in Watsonia 22 (3), 230 (1999) ( online )
  5. ↑ G. Matzke-Hajek in "Feddes Repertorium", 110 (3-4), 162 (1999)
personal data
SURNAME Foerster, Ekkehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw