Ernst Münch (forest scientist)

Ernst Münch (born November 26, 1876 in Ruchheim , today a district of Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † October 9, 1946 in Lechbruck am See ) was a German forest scientist and botanist .

Life

Münch was the older brother of the later Palatinate dialect poet Paul Münch (1879–1951) and the father of the concentration camp doctor Hans Münch . He studied forest sciences at the Aschaffenburg Forestry University and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1896 he became active in the Corps Hubertia Munich .

In 1904 he became an assistant to Carl von Tubeuf at the Freising Forest Research Institute . The LMU received his doctorate in 1906 as Dr. phil. From 1910 he worked at the government forest office in Speyer . In 1921 he became a full professor of forest botany at the Tharandt Forest University , and in 1933 at the University of Munich .

Münch's fields of work included plant physiology , dendrology and phytopathology . Outstanding are his work on phloem transport, where he set up the pressure flow theory .

Fonts

• Investigations into the immunity and susceptibility of wood plants to disease , dissertation, Ludwigsburg 1909
• The movements of matter in the plant , Jena 1930
• Contributions to forest plant breeding. Attempts at selective breeding by sowing single-stemmed spruce. Further contributions to forest plant breeding [from the scientific papers of Bruno Huber ], Munich 1949

literature

• Dorothea Hauff:  Münch, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 517 ( digitized version ).
• E. Höxtermann: Ernst Münch. In: Ilse Jahn (Ed.): History of Biology. Theories, methods, institutions, short biographies . 3rd edition, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2000, p. 909 (Reprint Nikol, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-937872-01-9 )
• Heinrich Rubner : Ernst Münch . In other words: Hundreds of important foresters in Bavaria (1875 to 1970) . Messages from the State Forestry Administration of Bavaria. Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests, Munich 1994, pp. 242–243.
• Münch, Ernst. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1293.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Münch in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 108 , 537.
2. ↑ Dissertation: Investigations into the immunity and susceptibility of wood plants to disease .