Erna Mohr

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Erna Mohr (born July 11, 1894 in Hamburg ; † September 10, 1968 there ) was a German zoologist . She was the curator of the vertebrate department of the Zoological Museum Hamburg and the stud book keeper of the international stud book for bison.

Life

Erna Mohr was born as the daughter of a teacher in Hamburg. From 1909 to 1914 she trained at the teachers' seminar and worked as a teacher from 1914 to 1934: 1914 to 1919 at the elementary school for girls on Rhiemsweg ( Hamburg-Horn ), 1919 to 1930 in the mixed classes at the auxiliary school Bramfelder Straße ( Hamburg- Barmbek-Nord ), and from 1930 to 1934 in the elementary school on Alten Teichweg ( Hamburg-Dulsberg ). In 1934 she was on leave from school when she became head of department at the Zoological Museum Hamburg.

During her training, she began to work at the Zoological Museum. Initially active as a draftsman and as an employee in the fisheries biology department, she finally switched to the department for lower vertebrates . In 1934 she succeeded Georg Duncker as head of this department and in 1936 she also took over the department for higher vertebrates.

In 1946 she was taken over as curator in the vertebrate department during the reconstruction of the Zoological Museum (now: Zoological State Institute and Zoological Museum). She held this position until her retirement. She spoke several languages ​​and published her work in foreign specialist bodies in their national languages. Until the very last days of her life she corresponded with the whole world by hand, in spite of a serious illness that she endured with great self-control.

Scientific work

A central component of Erna Mohr's work at the Zoological Museum was the establishment, organization and expansion of zoological collections. Much of her early work was lost in the bombing of Hamburg during World War II; after the war, however, she immediately began rebuilding the collections. In 1931 Erna Mohr put forward the assumption that the forest birch mouse ( Sicista betulina ( Pallas , 1779)), the only jumping mouse in Northern Europe, also occurs in Germany.Two years later, this assumption was confirmed by another zoologist during an investigation of tawny owls. She systematically placed the Russian Hagenbeck deer ( Cervus (Cervus) elaphus hagenbecki ) between the European red deer ( C. (C.) e. Elaphus Linnaeus , 1758 and the North American elephant ( C. (C.) ) e. subsp. , and she was Erstbeschreiberin of several animal species, z. B. the shoulder flap Doktorfisch ( Acanthurus nigricauda Duncker & Mohr, 1929) from the kind of doctor fish as well as of several species of the genus Zenarchopterus from the family of Halfbeak .

Erna Mohr also worked with live animals and in the open field. In 1936 she was the first in Germany to receive a live forest birch mouse, which the farmer Hans Möller from Schwensby had caught in Tolker Moor in Holstein. She found that the crackling sound Rener heard while running was caused by movement of the tendons in the ankles and not, as was previously believed, by the hooves clapping together. Mohr was the first to raise successfully orphaned bat babies with a feeding bottle. She also examined the zoological biodiversity of the Kalkberg cave .

Best known, however, is Erna Mohr's contribution to the conservation of the bison . From 1927 she worked with the "International Society for the Preservation of the Wisent" founded in Berlin in 1923 and was the stud book keeper for several decades . Here, too, the ravages of World War II destroyed part of their work; Erna Mohr, together with the Warsaw zoologist Jan Zabinski , immediately began to restore the studbook after the war. Heinz-Georg Klös , director of the Berlin Zoological Garden, judged: "She [Erna Mohr] has done a particularly good job of rebuilding bison breeding."

Honors

Tree rat at the grave of Erna Mohr

In 1984, on her 90th birthday, a street in Hamburg was named after her, the Erna-Mohr-Kehre in Hamburg-Neuallermöhe .

To their lasting memory her grave stone was in the garden of the women of the cemetery Ohlsdorf situated in Hamburg. The sculpture of a tree rat is included .

Publications (selection)

  • The mammals of Schleswig-Holstein. Natural Science Association Altona / Elbe, 1931.
  • The fur trade . Co-author and co-editor, last article in issue 5, 1966. Hermelin-Verlag Dr. Paul Schöps, Berlin et al. Published 1950 to 1967.
  • The birch mouse. In: The home. Volume 58, No. 5/6, 1951, pp. 196, 212, Karl Wachholtz, Neumünster 1951.
  • The seals of European waters. (= Monographs of wild mammals. Volume 12). Paul Schöps, Frankfurt 1952.
  • Wild pigs. (= Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei. Volume 247). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1952.
  • The bison. (= Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei. Volume 74). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1952.
  • The sturgeon. (= Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei. Volume 84). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1952.
  • Flying fishes. (= Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei. Volume 133). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1954.
  • The free-living rodents of Germany and neighboring countries. Fischer, Jena 1954.
  • The seal. (= Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei. Volume 145). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1955.
  • The behavior of the Pinnipedita. In: Handbook of Zoology. Volume 8, Delivery 2, 1956.
  • Hungarian Shepherd Dogs. (= Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei. Volume 176). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1956.
  • Sirens or manatees. (= Die Neue Brehm Bücherei. Volume 197). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1957.
  • The catfish. (= Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Volume 209). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1957.
  • The primeval horse. (= Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei. Volume 249). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1959.
  • Pangolins. (= Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei. Volume 284). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1961 / Franckh, Stuttgart 1961.
  • Glossarium Europae Mammalium Terrestrium. Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1961.
  • The old-world porcupines. (= Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei. Volume 350). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1965 / Franckh, Stuttgart 1965.
  • The bluebock Hippotragus leucophaeus (Pallas, 1766) .: A documentation. (= Mammalia depicta. Volume 2). Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1966.
  • Encyclopedia of Animals. Hamburg: Manfred Pawlak, 1971.
  • Mammals. In: Wilhelm Eigner (ed.): The large lexicon of animals. Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1978.

Initial descriptions (selection)

  • Acanthurus cf. nigricauda Duncker & Mohr , 1929 (epaulette surgeonfish)
  • Zenarchopterus beauforti Mohr , 1926
  • Zenarchopterus clarus Mohr , 1926
  • Zenarchopterus dunckeri Mohr , 1926
  • Zenarchopterus pappenheimi Mohr , 1926
  • Zenarchopterus quadrimaculatus Mohr , 1926
  • Zenarchopterus xiphophorus Mohr , 1934

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b H. Petzsch: Frau Dr. hc Erna Mohr in memory . In: The fur industry , Hermelin-Verlag Dr. Paul Schöps, Berlin et al., Pp. 3–5.
  2. ↑ Waldbirkenmaus, Anoa, Hagenbeck-Hirsch - Grzimek 1967.
    First descriptions -The Taxonomicon: Taxon by Authorship: Mohr. [1] . [Status: September 2, 2006 / Accessed on: September 29, 2007]
  3. ↑ Ren tendons - Grzimek 1967.
    Bat babies - Bake 2005.
    Kalkberghöhle - Wikipedia (German): Kalkberghöhle. [Status: March 27, 2007 / Accessed on: April 29, 2007]
  4. ↑ Grzimek 1967 and Bake 2005.
    Quote from Heinz-Georg Klös: Grzimek 1967, Volume 13: Mammals IV, page 396
  5. ↑ a b Rita Bake: Erna-Mohr-Kehre . In Rita Bake: Who is behind this? Streets, squares and bridges named after women in Hamburg , State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2005, 4th act. u. exp. Ed., ISBN 3-929728-29-X ( online )

Sources and further reading

Books

  • Rita Bake (Ed.): City of Dead Women. The Ohlsdorf cemetery and its women. State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 1994.
  • Rita Bake: Erna-Mohr-Kehre . In Rita Bake: Who is behind this? Streets, squares and bridges named after women in Hamburg , State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2005, 4th act. u. exp. Edition, ISBN 3-929728-29-X , p. 58 ( PDF online ).
  • Bernhard Grzimek (ed.): Grzimeks animal life. Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom. Zurich: Kindler, 1967.
  • Herbert Weidner:  Mohr, Erna. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 706 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Without an author: Great women of world history: a thousand famous women in words and pictures. Wiesbaden: R. Löwit, no year.
  • Without an author: In Memoriam Dr. hc Erna Mohr (11. VII. 1894-10. IX. 1968). In: Journal of Pest Science, 43 (3) March 1970. Pages 43-44.

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personal data
SURNAME Mohr, Erna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist, curator of the Zoological State Institute and Museum Hamburg, teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1968
Place of death Hamburg