Friedrich Laibach

Friedrich Laibach (born April 2, 1885 in Limburg an der Lahn , † June 5, 1967 there ) was a German botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Loaf. ".

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Laibach received his doctorate in 1907 at the University of Bonn (with Eduard Strasburger ). In 1919 he completed his habilitation at the Frankfurt University (botany), but also taught at the Frankfurt Wöhlerschule . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists and his accession to the NSDAP , he was full professor and director of the Botanical Institute at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1934 to 1945 . In addition, from 1934 to 1936 he took on leadership roles in university politics as head of the teaching staff at the University of Frankfurt / Main. In 1945 he was released for political reasons. From 1946 he was head of the Limburg Biological Research Institute.

Laibach is considered to be the founder of experimental Arabidopsis research; the thale cress ( Arabidopsis thaliana ) is a field weed that Laibach examined in his doctoral thesis on the chromosome sets of plants. He was also one of the pioneers of growth substance physiology .

Web links

Literature by and about Friedrich Laibach in the catalog of the German National Library
Author entry and list of the described plant names for Friedrich Laibach at the IPNI
Arabidopsis Comeback (PDF file; 34 kB)
Arabidopsis Information Service

literature

Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 105-106.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 354.
^ Karl Egle , Günter Rosenstock: The history of botany in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt a. M. 1966, p. 38

personal data
SURNAME	Laibach, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 2, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Limburg on the Lahn
DATE OF DEATH	5th June 1967
Place of death	Limburg on the Lahn

[Klee354-1] Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 354.

[2] Karl Egle , Günter Rosenstock: The history of botany in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt a. M. 1966, p. 38