Erwin Schimitschek

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Erwin Schimitschek (born March 31, 1898 in Wisokopole (Moravia), † March 21, 1983 in Vienna ) was an Austrian fortentomologist and university professor.

Life

Erwin Schimitschek studied forest sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna from 1919 to 1924 , became a university assistant at the Institute for Forest Protection and Forest Entomology and received his doctorate in 1929 under Moritz Seitner (1862-1936) on a forest entomology topic. After his habilitation in 1930, Schimitschek became a private lecturer and in 1936 an associate professor . From 1937 he was full professor at the forestry faculty of the Ankara Agricultural University (YZE) in Bahçeköy near Istanbul and head of the Institute for Forest Entomology, Forest Protection, Wildlife and Hunting. From 1939 to 1945 Schimitschek was full professor of forest entomology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. From 1942 he was a member of the advisory board of the Entomological Institute of the Research Association for German Ahnenerbe in the Dachau concentration camp and headed the Southeast Institute for Forest and Wood Research.

After the end of the Second World War he worked at regional forest inspections in Tyrol and Lower Austria and from 1951 was head of the forest protection department of the Federal Forest Research Institute in Mariabrunn near Vienna. In 1953 he was offered a position at the forestry faculty of the University of Göttingen in Hannoversch Münden , where he was dean in 1956 and retired in 1966.

After the death of Hans Walther Frickhinger in 1955, Schimitschek took over the editing of the scoreboard for pest science and plant protection . After 17 years of successful work, he handed over the editorial management to Wolfgang Schwenke on January 1, 1972 .

Erwin Schimitschek died ten days before his 85th birthday in Vienna. He left behind his wife, the soil scientist Gertrud von Schreckenthal-Schimitschek, with whom he was married for almost 50 years, and two daughters.

Schimitschek is one of the founders of modern forest protection. From 1929 he published food for thought, which culminated in 1969 in the book Basics of Forest Hygiene .

Honors

The German Society for General and Applied Entomology honored Erwin Schimitschek twice: in 1963 with the Karl Escherich Medal and in 1974 with the Fabricius Medal.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Gerhard Tarmann & Barbara Thaler-Knoflach (2008): A foray through the history of entomology in Tyrol . Communications from the German Society for General and Applied Entomology 16: 39–67. pdf
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 535.
  3. ↑ a b W Frey, E Leib, Wolfgang Schwenke , Herbert Weidner , Heinrich Carl Weltzien , F Georgi (1972): Thanks to Professor Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Erwin Schimitschek . Scoreboard for Pest Management and Plant Protection 45 (1): 1. doi : 10.1007 / BF02000065
  4. ↑ a b Wolfgang Schwenke (1983): Professor Dipl. Ing. Dr. Dr. hc Erwin Schimitschek in memory. Scoreboard for pest science, plant protection, environmental protection 56 (4): 76–77. doi : 10.1007 / BF01903243
  5. ↑ a b Wolfgang Schwenke (1983): Erwin Schimitschek 85 years . Scoreboard for pest science , plant protection, environmental protection 56 (2): 36. doi : 10.1007 / BF01905987
personal data
SURNAME Schimitschek, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian fortentomologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Wisokopole (Moravia)
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1983
Place of death Vienna