Friedrich Tobler

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Friedrich Tobler (born October 1, 1879 in Berlin , † May 11, 1957 in Trogen AR (Switzerland)) was a Swiss-born, German botanist , lichenologist and university professor at the TH Dresden . His botanical-mycological author's abbreviation is " Tobler ".

Life

The son of from Switzerland originating Berlin Romanisten Adolf Tobler studied natural sciences in Heidelberg, Leipzig and at Simon Schwendener in Berlin, where in 1901 was awarded a doctorate. He completed his habilitation in Münster in 1905 and was associate there in 1911. Professor until 1920. He took part in the First World War as an officer and was awarded the Iron Cross . He was also assigned to the military service of the Foreign Office. His job was to monitor and influence the Basel press.

He then took over the Sorau Research Institute ( bast fibers ) of the German linen industry . In 1924 he was appointed full professor of botany at the Dresden University of Technology. At the same time he took over the management of the Botanical Garden in Dresden from Oscar Drude .

Since 1932 he was a member of the Leopoldina .

During the air raid on Dresden on February 13, 1945, he lost his official residence in the Botanical Garden and parts of his extensive collections .

Tobler was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten and the June Club . He was also chairman of the National Club of Saxony for many years and from 1932 to 1936 chairman of the Dresden department of the German Colonial Society and the Reich Colonial Association . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

Tobler was with the Jewish biologist Dr. Gertrud Tobler-Wolff (born Gertrud Wolff, 1877–1948; Diss. Berlin 1905; marriage 1907) married and was repeatedly removed from his position for racist reasons. On the other hand, he was Swiss and important to the German war economy because of his research. It was only two months before the end of the war that the Saxon Gauleiter Martin Mutschmann succeeded in removing Tobler from service.

In 1946 he moved to Switzerland. There he worked as a research assistant at the commercial college in Zurich and at the material testing office in St. Gallen .

Its special areas were seaweed , lichens and fibers . He toured East and South Africa, Turkey and South America, sometimes together with his wife. He founded the magazine "fiber research". The search for textile substitutes was of vital importance to the war effort.

Fonts

  • The lichens: an introduction to their general knowledge. Due to recent research u. critically presented , Jena 1934
  • German fiber plants and plant fibers , Lehmanns, Munich-Berlin 1938
  • Colonial useful plants , Hirzel, Leipzig 1942
  • with Gertrud Tobler-Wolff: Microscopic examination of vegetable fibers , Hirzel, 2nd edition 1951 (first 1912)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Meier-Kern: German aid for the "Basler Vorwärts"? Agent reports from the First World War . Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , 1992, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
  2. ^ Member entry by Friedrich Tobler at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
  3. ^ Volker Mauersberger: Rudolf Pechel and the "Deutsche Rundschau". Carl Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1971, p. 330.
  4. ↑ a b Michael Grüttner and Sven Kinas: The Expulsion of Scientists from German Universities 1933-1945. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , issue 1, 2007, pp. 123–186, here pp. 138 f
  5. ^ Dresden address books 1932-1936.
personal data
SURNAME Tobler, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tobler-Wolff, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1957
Place of death Trogen AR