Friedrich Alwin What a shame

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Friedrich Alwin Schade (born April 10, 1881 in Putzkau , Kingdom of Saxony , † February 23, 1976 ibid) was an important Saxon botanist, teacher at the Kreuzgymnasium in Dresden and an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden .

Life and work

Schade's father Friedrich Moritz Emil Schade was a garden food owner in Putzkau. In 1893 Schade took the entrance exam for the quinta of the grammar school in Bautzen, in 1899 he moved to Freiberg and in 1901 passed the Abitur. From the summer semester of 1901 he studied biology, chemistry and geography at the University of Leipzig . From April 15, 1901, he was a member of the Leipzig fraternity of Dresdensia . From 1906 he worked as a teacher at the Kreuzschule in Dresden, where he was appointed teacher for botany, zoology and anthropology in 1915. He received his doctorate in 1911 under Professor Stahl in Jena on "Plant Ecological Studies on the Rocks of Saxon Switzerland".

During the First World War, Schade was drafted in 1916 and was taken prisoner by the British in 1918, from which he was released in 1919. After Bernhard Schorler's death in 1920, Schade was temporarily curator at the Botanical Institute of the Technical University of Dresden under Oscar Drude .

Schade already had a phanerogam herbarium as a pupil . Later he turned to liverworts and lichens. In Dresden he kept in close contact with Emil Stolle , Ernst Riehmer and Erich Winter , with whom he was a member of the Isis Natural Science Society .

Schade brought out many writings on the cryptogamic exploration of Lusatia. Contacts existed with Mönkemeyer in Leipzig and Karl Müller.

His collections (herbarium) and his books were destroyed in an air raid on Dresden in 1945 , including the borrowed samples.

“During the third attack on February 14, 1945 at noon, our house could no longer be saved, it burned down into the cellar. Except for a handcart, two air raid suitcases and rucksacks, a cover, beds and a few items of clothing, everything is completely burned: library, separate items, herbaria (...) microscope, other apparatus, etc., etc. "

- Alwin Schade in a letter

With his wife he made his way to Putzkau, where his house was also totally burned out and destroyed. Only the summer house remained.

After the Second World War he was able to rebuild his collections thanks to the generous donation from Herbert Schindler , who had gone to the West. Today his collections are in the Museum für Naturkunde in Görlitz .

From 1946 to 1951, Schade remained in the school service despite reaching retirement age. Since 1947 he was the headmaster in Putzkau. He turned down a call for forest botany at the Tharandt University of Applied Sciences in 1946. On June 6, 1966, Schade was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden by resolution of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences: "In recognition of his excellent work in the field of cryptogamics (= spore plants), in particular lichenology (lichen studies)."

On February 23, 1976, 6 weeks before his 95th birthday, Friedrich Alwin Schade died of the consequences of a fractured femur.

family

In 1911 Schade married Charlotte Büttner-Wobst, the daughter of his older colleague Theodor Büttner-Wobst . Schade had a son and a daughter. His son-in-law and son died in World War II. His daughter later lived in Augsburg.

Honors

In Schmölln-Putzkau , the Dr-Alwin-Schade-Grundschule was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • Plant ecological studies on the rock faces of Saxon Switzerland in 1913.
  • About the mean annual heat consumption of Webera mutans Hedw. and Leptoscyphus taylori Mitt. in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains Berlin 1917.
  • The liverwort flora of Upper Lusatia Isis Bautzen 1921
  • The cryptogamic plant society on the rock faces of Saxon Switzerland, 1924
  • The liverworts of Saxony Isis Dresden 1924
  • Comments on Warnsdorf's work on "The European species groups of the genus Calypogela Raddi" (1829) Hedwigia 65 1925.
  • About the warmth enjoyment of some mosses and lichens on the Valtenberg Isis Dresden 1929
  • Oscar Drude Isis Dresden 1933
  • The cryptogamic flora on the rock faces of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and their living conditions in 1934
  • Supplements to the location directory of the liverworts of Saxony along with some critical remarks by Isis Dresden 1936
  • Contributions to the cryptogam flora of the Baltic Sea coast of Western Pomerania 1939
  • Gottlob Heinrich Bock and Friedrich Weinhold Roding. The life and cryptogamic backcountry of two Saxon florists from around 1800 Leipzig 1958.
  • In memory of Emil Stolle, an outstanding cryptogam researcher, Dresden 1960

literature

  • Werner Reusch: Chronicle of the Leipzig fraternity Dresdensia , Rathingen 2009
  • Werner Reusch: Regular role of the B! Dresdensia Leipzig from 1853–1899 , Giessen 2006

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Herbert Ulbricht : Honorary doctorate from Dr. phil. Alwin Schade, Oberputzkau (Lausitz), by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Technical University of Dresden on June 6, 1966 . In: Scientific journal of the Technical University of Dresden . tape 16 . Technical University of Dresden, 1967, p. 31 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Dr. Friedrich Alwin What a shame. Dr. Alwin Schade School, accessed on October 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME What a shame, Friedrich Alwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES It's a shame, Alwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Putzkau , Kingdom of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1976
Place of death Putzkau