Ernst Reinmuth

Ernst Reinmuth (born March 11, 1901 in Kohlhof near Heidelberg ; † August 30, 1986 in Rostock ) was a German botanist .

Life

Ernst Friedrich Reinmuth was the son of the fruit growing technician Philipp Reinmuth and his wife Elise, nee. Fried fish. He first attended the village school in Gaiberg , before he switched to elementary school and later to the upper secondary school in Heidelberg, where he graduated from high school in 1920. He began studying botany, zoology, physics and chemistry in Heidelberg, which he interrupted after two semesters in order to complete an agricultural internship that first took him to the Odenwald and then to the manor Holzdorf near Weimar . From 1922 he studied agricultural science in Halle and Jena . After graduating as a qualified farmer and seed breeding inspector in 1924, he headed the agricultural experimental ring in Groß Puspern in East Prussia from 1925 to 1927 . During this time he also taught at the agricultural school in Eppingen and worked as a scientific assistant in the agricultural research station in Rostock . Reinmuth's field of work there was plant diseases. In 1926/27 he also studied natural sciences at the University of Rostock. In 1929 he received his doctorate, the title of his dissertation was The potato nematode . From 1931 he headed the Plant Diseases and Plant Protection Department at the Agricultural Research Station in Rostock. In 1933 he became a supporting member of the SS . In 1938 he joined the NSDAP .

In May 1934 he married Eva Quade, the daughter of the Rostock master builder Heinrich Quade . The marriage had four children, including the later theologian Eckart Reinmuth .

From 1937 to 1945 Reinmuth headed the Mecklenburg Plant Protection Office. He was also deputy head of the agricultural research station. In June 1935, he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the effects of dressings on vegetable seeds. In the Reichsbund der allotment gardeners and small settlers in Germany, he was a part-time state training manager from around this time. In July 1936 he became a lecturer in applied botany and plant protection at the University of Rostock.

In November 1944 he was appointed adjunct professor. He was soon able to continue his career in the GDR after the end of the Third Reich . From 1957 to 1959 he was rector of the university, before that he had been vice rector for two years. Until his retirement he was head of the Institute for Phytopathology and Plant Protection.

Reinmuth published about 200 writings. He was honored by the government of the GDR with the National Prize , the Patriotic Order of Merit and the Humboldt Medal .

Web links

• Entry on Ernst Reinmuth in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ^ Scientific publishing company .: Natural science review . Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft., 1986, p. 495 ( limited preview in Google book search)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Entry on Ernst Reinmuth in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
3. ↑ Michael Buddrus: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. Walter de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-110-95730-3 , p. 325 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
4. ^ Günter Heidorn : History of the University of Rostock 1419-1969 . Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1969, p. 179 ( limited preview in Google book search)
5. ^ Guntolf Herzberg: Adaptation and revolt. Ch. Links Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-861-53377-1 , p. 403 ( limited preview in Google book search)
6. ↑ individual sections of the special: news sheet for plant protection in the GDR. 1976, p. 84 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
7. ^ University of Rostock: Scientific journal of the University of Rostock . 1968, p. 281 ( limited preview in Google book search)
8. ↑ H. Decker, D. Seidel: Prof. em. Dr. phil. habil. Ernst Reinmuth on his 75th birthday. In: Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection. Volume 12, Number 2, 1975, pp. 65-66, doi : 10.1080 / 03235407609431733 .