Friedrich Voss (zoologist)

Friedrich Voss (born August 19, 1877 in Düsseldorf ; † January 23, 1950 ) was a German zoologist and professor at the University of Göttingen and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin .

Life

During his studies in Göttingen in 1897 he became a member of the Brunsviga fraternity . Voss received his doctorate in 1905 in Göttingen, was an assistant at the Zoological Institute in Göttingen from 1906 and completed his habilitation in zoology in 1910 with a thesis on entomology . In 1919 he was temporarily not appointed professor because of his opponents in the faculty. In 1921 he received a teaching position for regional fauna and agricultural zoology and was ao. Professor . In 1922 the faculty refused an extraordinary position for him due to poor academic performance and recommended him to leave Göttingen in 1924. In 1919 Voss was a member of the Association for Liberation from the Judenjoch in Göttingen , which the ancient historian Hugo Willrich had founded, and since 1932 a member of the NSDAP and squad leader of the SA . In the SA he was a storm training warden. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . He demanded compensation for not establishing his professorship in the Weimar Republic. In 1935 he was ao. Professor and head of the mammal department at the Zoological Museum of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin .

Fonts

• On the musculature of the thorax by Gryllus domesticus , Leipzig 1905 (= diss.)

literature

• Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich: Who Was What Before and After 1945? , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 646 ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Voss in the catalog of the German National Library

supporting documents

1. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 94.
2. ↑ Inventory, p. 116 ; Klee: Personal Lexicon, p. 646