Erich Titschack

Woldemar Erich Titschack (born June 11, 1892 in St. Petersburg , † April 15, 1978 in Hamburg ), according to other sources Erich Hans Woldemar Titschack, was a German zoologist .

Life

Erich Titschack was born in St. Petersburg as the son of a German businessman. After attending the local humanistic grammar school up to the subprima , he passed the Abitur in Sangerhausen . 1912–1914 he studied biology, geology and chemistry in Jena, Berlin and Bonn. Titschack went into the First World War as a volunteer and was permanently unfit for military service due to a serious wound on the Eastern Front. He resumed his studies in Bonn in 1916 and was at the same time assistant to Richard Hesse . His doctorate as Dr. phil. dealt with the secondary sexual characteristics of the three-spined stickleback . From 1919 to 1924 Titschack worked as a zoologist for thePaint factory formerly Friedrich Bayer & Co. in Leverkusen . There he examined the clothes moth, which until then was little known scientifically . Together with the chemist Ernst Meckbach, Titschack developed the first moth repellent for wool, the Eulan .

At the end of 1924 he took over the management of the insect collection at the Hamburg State Zoological Museum . Although he continued to do intensive research on the clothes moth, he pushed through his ideas for the redesign of the display collection and received the title of professor in 1934 due to his scientific and organizational achievements. Collection trips took him to the Canary Islands (1931), France (1934) and Peru (1936). The results of the Peru trip appeared in a four-volume book. After the apartment and the zoological institute fell victim to the bombing raids of July 30, 1943, Titschack accepted an appointment as senior administrator at the Institute for Agricultural Research and Inventory Management at the University of Poznan in November 1944 . He was hardly able to begin researching clothes moths there due to the advancing Soviet army in January 1945. The institute was moved first to Thuringia and then to Giengen . In 1951 Titschack returned to Hamburg and began to rebuild the display collection of the Altona Museum that had been destroyed in the war. A few months before his retirement in January 1957, the permanent collection was reopened.

After his retirement, Titschack devoted himself intensively to the fringed winged insect order (Thysanoptera). Shortly before his 86th birthday, Erich Titschack died after a long illness.

Honors

In 1962 Erich Titschack received the Federal Cross of Merit . The German Society for General and Applied Entomology honored him twice: in 1963 with the Fabricius Medal and in 1969 with the Karl Escherich Medal .

Individual evidence

↑ Adolf Herfs (1972): Pathological phenomena of morphological and physiological nature in the clothes moth, Tineola biselliella Hum. Gazette for Pest Management and Plant Protection 45 (6): 81–83. doi: 10.1007 / BF01890625 (there is a footnote on page 81: "Professor Dr. Woldemar Erich Titschack on his 80th birthday")
↑ z. B. in http://sdei.senckenberg.de/biographies/ (accessed on June 18, 2014)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Herbert Weidner (1978): In memoriam Professor Dr. Erich Titschack. Indicator for pest science, plant protection, environmental protection 51 (8): 126–127. doi: 10.1007 / BF01903329
↑ Erich Titschack (1921): The secondary sexual characteristics of Gasterosteus aculeatus L. Zoological yearbooks Department for General Zoology and Physiology of Animals 39: 83-148. ISSN 0044-5185
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Adolf Herfs (1962): Professor Dr. Erich Titschack on his seventieth birthday. Pest Control Indicator 35 (6): 92-93. doi: 10.1007 / BF02332877
↑ Erich Titschack (1922): Contributions to a monograph of the clothes moth, Tineola biselliella Hum. Journal of Technical Biology 10: 1-168, panels I – IV.
↑ Erich Titschack (Hrsgb.) (1951–1954): Contributions to the fauna of Peru: after the harvest of the Hamburg South Peru Expedition in 1936, other collections, as well as on the basis of references. Fischer, Jena.

personal data
SURNAME	Titschack, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Titschack, Woldemar Erich; Erich Hand Woldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	April 15, 1978
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Adolf Herfs (1972): Pathological phenomena of morphological and physiological nature in the clothes moth, Tineola biselliella Hum. Gazette for Pest Management and Plant Protection 45 (6): 81–83. doi: 10.1007 / BF01890625 (there is a footnote on page 81: "Professor Dr. Woldemar Erich Titschack on his 80th birthday")

[2] z. B. in http://sdei.senckenberg.de/biographies/ (accessed on June 18, 2014)

[Nachruf-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Herbert Weidner (1978): In memoriam Professor Dr. Erich Titschack. Indicator for pest science, plant protection, environmental protection 51 (8): 126–127. doi: 10.1007 / BF01903329

[4] Erich Titschack (1921): The secondary sexual characteristics of Gasterosteus aculeatus L. Zoological yearbooks Department for General Zoology and Physiology of Animals 39: 83-148. ISSN 0044-5185

[G70-5] Adolf Herfs (1962): Professor Dr. Erich Titschack on his seventieth birthday. Pest Control Indicator 35 (6): 92-93. doi: 10.1007 / BF02332877

[6] Erich Titschack (1922): Contributions to a monograph of the clothes moth, Tineola biselliella Hum. Journal of Technical Biology 10: 1-168, panels I – IV.

[7] Erich Titschack (Hrsgb.) (1951–1954): Contributions to the fauna of Peru: after the harvest of the Hamburg South Peru Expedition in 1936, other collections, as well as on the basis of references. Fischer, Jena.