Fritz Filler

Fritz Füller (born September 8, 1900 in Suhl ; † November 29, 1982 ibid) was a German businessman, actor, precision mechanic and botanist. He was best known for his publications on orchids .

Life

The father of Fritz Füller, who was born in Suhl in 1900, was a craftsman. Füller himself completed a commercial apprenticeship at a newspaper in Suhl, but was only briefly employed in this profession. He took singing lessons and became an actor after the First World War. In 1921 he married Hildegard Schulz, whom he had met at the Stadttheater in Staßfurt ; they had three children. In 1924 they both gave up acting, Fritz Füller subsequently worked as a precision mechanic, and after the Second World War he returned to a commercial profession until 1972. His wife died in 1970, his eldest son in 1980. Fritz Füller died in 1982 in his hometown of Suhl.

Works

Füller has been mapping and photographing orchids since 1941, primarily in the vicinity of his Thuringian place of residence. After a few smaller publications, in 1955 he wrote the volume for the series “Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei” on the native species of lady's slipper and strap tongue . Another nine volumes followed by 1972, covering Germany's orchid flora. Even before the last volume was published, the first were revised again to represent an extension to the orchids of Central Europe. Some volumes appeared in a third edition, revised again by Füller until 1982.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Horst Füller: Fritz Füller 1900–1982 . In: Fritz Füller: Orchis and Dactylorhiza . Orchids of Central Europe, 3rd part. The New Brehm Library. Vol. 286, A. Ziemsen Verlag, Wittenberg 1983, ISSN  0138-1423