Friedrich Krauss (natural scientist)

Gebhard Fugel portrait of Friedrich Krauss 1914

Johann Christoph Friedrich Krauss (born February 2, 1835 in Söhnstetten , † December 8, 1921 in Ravensburg ) was a German manufacturer and naturalist.

Live and act

Friedrich Krauss was the son of a teacher, underwent commercial training and in 1868 became a partner in his father-in-law's curtain and white goods factory in Ravensburg, which he had managed alone since 1900 and handed over to two of his sons in 1916.

Friedrich Krauss had numerous non-professional interests. He learned Latin and Greek in self-study and dealt with music and poetry. His most important achievements are in the field of natural history; especially as a geologist he enjoyed high recognition. A gravel pit near his house aroused his interest in this regard; Together with his children and grandchildren, he collected alpine rocks that had been displaced by the Rhine Glacier and determined their origin. In 1910 opened "Natural History, Art and Antiquity Museum" in Ravensburg, Krauss set up the natural history collection, as well as in 1912 opened " Bodensee Museum " of the Association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings in Friedrichshafen , where he has two museums material from his Gave possession. The Ravensburger collection was brought to safety in World War II, but was not rebuilt later. The Friedrichshafen collection was destroyed in an air raid in 1944. Parts of Krauss' private collection are now looked after by the Weingarten University of Education .

Honors

Honorary chairman of the Ravensburg Natural History Association
Honorary membership in the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg (1919)
Honorary membership in the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings (1921)

Fonts (selection)

Nature and home of the erratic boulders and debris of the Ice Age Rhine Valley glacier scattered in the Alpine foothills north of Lake Constance . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , Volume 38, 1909, pp. 3–10. Digitized
Today's theory about the nature of the hair dryer . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , Volume 28, 1899, pp. 23–32. Digitized
The ice age and the theories about its causes . Maier, Ravensburg 1898.

literature

Diether Gräf: Friedrich Krauß (1836–1921), pioneer of natural history and important collector in Upper Swabia . In: In the Oberland . Volume 19, 2008, pp. 52-58.
Werner Krauss: Heritage and climate change. A fatal affair . In: David Harvey, Jim Perry (Eds.): The Future of Heritage as Climates Change. Loss, Adaptation and Creativity . Routledge, London and New York 2015, pp. 43–61. ISBN 978-1-138-78183-2 .
Adolf Köhler: The natural history collection Friedrich Krauss . In: The fruit box of the Weingarten monastery . Eppe, Bergatreute 1989, p. 125 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , Volume 136, 2018, pp. 1–302, here p. 89. ISBN 978-3-7995-1725-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Krauss, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Krauss, Johann Christoph Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German manufacturer and natural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 2, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Söhnstetten
DATE OF DEATH	December 8, 1921
Place of death	Ravensburg

[1] Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , Volume 136, 2018, pp. 1–302, here p. 89. ISBN 978-3-7995-1725-6 .