Friedrich Hauchecorne

Friedrich Hauchecorne (born September 22, 1894 in Charlottenburg ; † January 28, 1938 at Jülich ) was a German zoo director and zoo director in Halle and Cologne.

Life

Friedrich Hauchecorne was born in Charlottenburg near Berlin on September 22nd, 1894, the son of Oskar Hauchecorne's medical adviser . He was a grandson of the geologist Wilhelm Hauchecorne and the senior building officer Ludwig Hagen . Hauchecorne grew up in Berlin and was a regular visitor to the zoological garden , where his father treated the great apes and the young Fritz not only observed the zoo animals, but also drew them. Also on his parents' estate "Leistenhaus" near Joachimsthal in the Uckermark, in addition to agriculture and horticulture, he was busy observing plants and animals during his holidays. His childhood friend Lutz Heck , son of the then Berlin zoo director Ludwig Heck , often kept him company on ornithological forays into the surrounding nature . In his home in Berlin, he kept a wide variety of native animals such as common toads, fire mice and a tawny owl. Hauchecorne passed his Abitur on August 9, 1914 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Berlin.

At the First World War Hauchecorne participated voluntarily. In 1914 he joined the Schwedt Dragoons. In the summer of 1915 he applied for a transfer to the infantry and was assigned to the 19th Infantry Regiment. He was adopted as first lieutenant in 1918. Hauchecorne then managed the Uckermark family estate for a year. At the beginning of the winter semester of 1919, he began his studies in Berlin at the same time at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , the Agricultural University and the Veterinary University , which he also devoted to zoology, animal breeding, feeding theory, hunting zoology, beekeeping and veterinary medicine with a focus on agriculture. In 1920 he joined the Prey sniper corps and was shot in the right shoulder in street fighting near Berlin-Adlershof.

Hauchecorne achieved his first degree in 1922 with a thesis on the East Frisian milk sheep. In 1924 he received his doctorate from the Berlin Agricultural University with a thesis on the economic importance of the mole. From November 1924 to October 1, 1925 he represented Lutz Heck as an assistant at the Berlin Zoological Garden. On January 13, 1926, Friedrich Hauchecorne was appointed director of the Halle Zoological Garden as the successor to Günter Kniesche , initially for a year on probation with confirmation in office on January 7, 1926. With Vesta Grothe, whom he had already from his student days in Berlin knew, he married in 1928. On January 1, 1929, Hauchecorne moved as director of the Cologne Zoological Garden , where he succeeded Ludwig Wunderlich . Daughter Amélie was born in Cologne on December 17, 1929.

Friedrich Hauchecorne died on January 28, 1938 at the age of only 43 during a hunt for wild boars in the "Escher Bürge" near Jülich from a hunting accident caused by a neighbor on the stand when his rifle was closed. The projectile is said to have ricocheted off a tree trunk and hit the Hauchecorne 40 meters away through the back. His widow Vesta married the ornithologist Erwin Stresemann on December 21, 1941 , with whom Hauchecorne was friends during his lifetime. Daughter Amélie married the behavioral scientist Otto Koehler in 1955 .

Act

Friedrich Hauchecorne was particularly interested in ornithology and a talented draftsman. As a zoo gardener, he worked tirelessly on the further development of the zoos entrusted to him. While in economically difficult times he was still able to complete the predator house that was under construction in Halle when he took up his duties, no further great progress could be made afterwards. With the number of visitors soon falling, Cologne could no longer maintain economic independence from the city budget, despite the dismissal of employees and, finally, the reduction in pension payments for former director Wunderlich. Hauchecorne was one of the founding members of today's World Zoo Association in 1935 . With his remarks on the nature conservation tasks of zoological gardens, he showed great foresight.

Works

• Ecological and biological studies on the economic importance of the mole (Talpa europaea). In: Journal for Morphology and Ecology of Animals. Volume 9, 1927, pp. 439-571. (At the same time: Dissertation, Agricultural University Berlin, 1924.)
• Interesting breeding successes. In: 25 years of the Halle ad Saale zoological garden. (= Messages from the zoological garden of the city of Halle. Special issue.) Halle undated (probably 1926), pp. 31–32.
• Nature conservation tasks of our zoological gardens. In: The Zoological Garden. (New episode.). Volume 1, No. 3/4, 1928, pp. 81-87.

literature

• Ludwig Baumgarten: Chronicle. Zoological Garden Halle. Part 1: 1901-1945. Halle Zoological Garden, Halle 2001, ISBN 3-931950-34-4 .
• Ludwig Gebhardt: The ornithologists of Central Europe. (= Classics of animal and plant science.) Aula, Wiebelsheim 2006, ISBN 3-89104-680-4 .
• Jürgen Haffer, Erich Rutschke, Klaus Wunderlich: Erwin Stresemann (1889–1972) - life and work of a pioneer in scientific ornithology. In: Acta Historica Leopoldina. 2nd, corrected edition. No. 34, 2004.
• Johann Jakob Häßlin: The zoological garden in Cologne. A contribution to the history of the zoo. Greven Verlag, Cologne 1960.
• Lutz Heck: Forests with a colorful route. Hunting in local areas. Paul Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1968.
• Konrad Herter: Encounters with people and animals. Memoirs of a zoologist 1891–1978. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-428-04549-1 .
• Theo Pagel, Marcus Reckewitz, Wilhelm Spieß: The Cologne Zoo. Enthusiastic about animals. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2339-8 .
• Fritz Schmidt-Hoensdorf: Dr. F. Hauchecorne †. In: Messages from the zoological garden of the city of Halle. Volume 33, No. 1/2, 1938, p. 2.
• Karl Max Schneider: Friedrich Hauchecorne †. In: The Zoological Garden. (New episode.). Volume 10, No. 3/4, 1938, pp. 81-83.
• K. Zimmermann: Dr. Friedrich Hauchecorne †. In: Journal of Mammals. Volume 13, No. 2, 1939, pp. 161-163.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Baumgarten (2001), p. 104.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Zimmermann (1939), p. 162.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Schneider (1938), p. 82.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Heck (1968), p. 59.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Zimmermann (1939), p. 161.
6. ↑ Gebhardt (2006), p. 139.
7. ↑ Baumgarten (2001), p. 104 f.
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Herter (1979), p. 112 f.
9. ↑ Schneider (1938), p. 83.
10. ↑ Pagel, Reckewitz & Spieß (2010), p. 136.
11. ^ Haffer et al. (2004), pp. 45 & 156.
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Häßlin (1960), p. 57.
13. ↑ Baumgarten (2001), p. 106.
14. ↑ Pagel, Reckewitz & Spieß (2010), p. 134 ff.
15. ↑ cf. Hauchecorne (1928).