Ernst Schüz

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Ernst Paul Theodor Schüz (born October 24, 1901 in Markgröningen , † August 8, 1991 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German ornithologist . From 1949 to 1969 he was director of the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart .

The father Ernst Schüz was city pastor and district school inspector (senior government councilor) in Balingen , the mother Elise Weitbrecht. Schüz attended the Karls-Gymnasium Stuttgart and studied from 1920 zoology, botany, chemistry, geology and geography at the University of Tübingen with the state examination for the higher teaching post in 1925. In 1927 he received his doctorate at the University of Berlin with Erwin Stresemann in zoology. The dissertation was on powder down . He then worked at the natural history museums in Hanover and Dresden and from 1929 at the Rossitten ornithological station under Oskar Heinroth curator. In 1936 he became head of the ornithological station. His first wife Tabitha Brenner (married in 1926) died shortly after the birth of a daughter in 1941, and in 1944 he married Hanna Steinheil. In 1942 he completed his habilitation in Königsberg and was drafted as a soldier in 1943.

After the war, he founded a successor to the Rossiter ornithological station, which was abandoned due to the war, in Möggingen Castle (owned by ornithologist Nikolaus von Bodman ) near Radolfzell . The Radolfzell ornithological station is now part of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology (and was part of the MPI as early as 1949). It was headed by Schüz on a part-time basis until 1959, while his main job was as chief curator from 1946 and director of the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart from 1959.

At Möggingen Castle, he organized the first meetings of German ornithologists after the war from 1947, from which the re-establishment of the German Ornithological Society emerged in 1949 .

In Rossitten he organized the ringing of birds (especially the white stork and gray heron ), undertook population studies, for example on starlings, and promoted research on the orientation and physiology of migratory birds (with Gustav Kramer , Werner Rüppell , Paul Putzig and others). Later, too, his focus was on bird migration research and bird protection, but also on white storks.

He had also been an honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart since 1952, was state commissioner for nature conservation and landscape management for North Württemberg (1946) and head of the state bird sanctuary in Ludwigsburg .

Schüz had been a "Scientific Member" of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society since 1936, and after 1949 he was accepted as a Scientific Member by the Max Planck Society . From 1959 to 1969 he was a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology , into which the Radolfzell Ornithological Institute had been integrated. In 1971 he became an honorary member of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg and in 1964 an honorary member of the British Ornithological Union and in 1953 of the American Ornithological Union.

From 1930 to 1943 he was co-editor of the magazine Vogelzug and from 1948 to 1974 of its successor Vogelwarte (with Rudolf Drost , Rudolf Kuhk ).

Fonts

  • Contribution to the knowledge of powder formation in birds, J. f. Ornithology, Volume 75, 1927, pp. 86–223 (dissertation)
  • Vogelbüchlein, a pocket book for observation walks, Stuttgart: Moritz 1922
  • with Hugo Weigold : Atlas of bird migration according to the ringing results in Palearctic birds, Berlin: Friedländer 1931
  • From bird migration, ground plan of bird migration, Frankfurt: Schöps 1952
  • The bird world of the South Caspian Lowlands, Stuttgart: Swiss beard 1959
  • with Peter Berthold : Outline of bird migration. 2nd edition, Paul Parey 1971.

He also edited the German translation of M. Philip Kahl's World of Storks (Paul Parey 1981) and edited and expanded it.

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personal data
SURNAME Schüz, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schüz, Ernst Paul Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Markgröningen
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1991
Place of death Ludwigsburg