Ewald Fromming

Ewald Frömming (born August 11, 1899 - September 19, 1960 in Berlin ) was a German malacologist . He mainly dealt with land snails and freshwater snails.

Life

Fromming's year was drafted into the First World War. He was a soldier until 1919 and then returned to Berlin, where he began as a volunteer in industry. Studying was out of the question and so he worked in an industrial company and only worked on the research of molluscs on the side. He was particularly interested in ecological issues. After many publications in the journal Internationale Revue , directed by Richard Woltereck , of the entire hydrobiology and hydrography , he was able to summarize and publish his work in books after the Second World War . He had recorded many observations in the field and studies in the laboratory about the way of life and nutrition of the various bottom-living and bottom-dwelling snails. Little was known about their biocenoses in Fromming's time, but there was great interest in insights into these connections.

Fromming became known beyond the borders of Germany with his comprehensive works on land gastropods and freshwater snails, which each comprised over 400 pages. Another book on the behavior of snails to the plants in their environment came out only after Fromming's death.

Works

Books

• The animal pests of our greenhouse plants, their way of life and control. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953 (together with Hans-Peter Plate)
• Biology of Central European Land Gastropods. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1954
• Biology of Central European Freshwater Snails. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1956
• The behavior of our snails towards the plants in their environment. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1962

Magazine articles

• To propagate the radix ovata drap. International Review of the Entire Hydrobiology and Hydrography, 31, 1, pp. 312-318, 1934
• About the case of Theodoxus fluviatilis L. International Review of the Entire Hydrobiology and Hydrography, 33, 3, pp. 305-312, 1936
• About the nutrition of our mud snails. International Review of the Entire Hydrobiology and Hydrography, 34, 1-6, pp. 43-56, 1937
• Experimental studies on the food requirements of some saprophagous land snail species. Journal for plant nutrition, fertilization, soil science, 82, 1, pp. 10-17, 1958

literature

• W. Reichmuth: Ewald Frömming . Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 90, 1–3, pp. 121–130, 1961
• A. Zilch: History of the malacological section. From the history of the Senckenberg Museum, No. 13, Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 97, 1–6, pp. 7–43, 1967, p. 32
• É. Kiss: Malakológiai évfordulók. Soosiana, 13, pp. 35-38, 1985, p. 36 (Hungarian)
• JH Jungbluth, S. Willecke and R. Haldemann: Bibliography of the work on the mollusks in Berlin with species index and biographical notes. Malacoological regional bibliographies: IX. Meeting reports of the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin, 31, pp. 147–192, 1991, pp. 184–185 (with portrait)