Fritz Schmidt-Hoensdorf

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Fritz Schmidt-Hoensdorf (born June 24, 1889 in Jersleben , † May 27, 1967 in Berlin ; real name: Friedrich Heinrich Johannes Schmidt ) was a German veterinarian , university teacher and zoo director .

Life

Friedrich Heinrich Johannes, called Fritz, Schmidt was born on June 24, 1889 as the son of a baker in Jersleben near Wolmirstedt . In 1896 he moved to a farm in Hoensdorf in West Prussia with his parents . He completed secondary school in Kulm on the Vistula . On September 17, 1909, he obtained his Abitur at the secondary school in Graudenz . After his military service as a one-year volunteer , he devoted himself to studying veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Berlin. During this time he became a member of the student union Landsmannschaft Arminia (today: Landsmannschaft Thuringia ). On August 21, 1914, he received his license to practice medicine as a veterinarian. In the First World War he took part in the veterinary service and remained stationed with the Baltic troops until March 25, 1920 (see also Baltic troops ). After working as a practical veterinarian on his parents' farm, he went on September 11, 1920 as an assistant to the veterinary institution of the University of Jena , but switched to the Army Veterinary Investigation Office on March 15, 1921, and finally to the veterinary department on July 27, 1921 University of Berlin to do a doctorate. Until November 30, 1921 he worked as a veterinarian for the Berlin police .

In autumn 1921 Schmidt-Hoensdorf received a call as a bacteriologist at the Technical University of Porto Alegre in Brazil , which he followed for three years. In 1928 Schmidt-Hoensdorf received his habilitation in Halle (Saale) . A year later he became director of the Halle Zoological Garden , and in 1934 he was appointed professor there . During the Second World War, Schmidt-Hoensdorf was, among other things, the chief veterinary officer in North Africa. After 1945 he initially held a medical-diagnostic laboratory. In 1951 he received a teaching position for parasitology at the Free University of Berlin . Since 1960 he was professor and director of the Institute for Veterinary Parasitology.

Schmidt-Hoensdorf was a member of the German Society for Mammal Studies and the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin . Since 1932 he was a member of the Leopoldina . Schmidt-Hoensdorf published the communications from the Halle Zoological Garden from 1929 to 1941. From 1954 until his death he was a member of the supervisory board of the Berlin Zoological Garden and in this function was responsible for the dismissal of the well-deserved zoo director Katharina Heinroth . Schmidt-Hoensdorf joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 and was a veterinarian in the SS Reitersturm from November 1933 . He was also a member of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association .

literature

  • Ludwig Baumgarten: Chronicle of the zoological garden in Halle. Part 1: 1901-1945. Halle Zoological Garden, Halle 2001, ISBN 3-931950-34-4 .
  • Boch: Prof. Dr. Fritz Schmidt-Hoensdorf † , In: Berlin and Munich veterinary weekly . Volume 80, 1967, p. 264.
  • Katharina Heinroth: It began with butterflies - my life with animals in Breslau, Munich and Berlin. 2nd Edition. Kindler Verlag, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-463-00745-2 .
  • Heinz-Georg Klös (1971): Fritz Schmidt-Hoensdorf †. In: The Zoological Garden (NF). Volume 40, 1971, pp. 253-255.
  • Heinz-Georg Klös, Hans Frädrich, Ursula Klös: Noah's Ark on the Spree. 150 years of the zoological garden in Berlin. Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-927551-29-5 .
  • Max Mechow: Well-known CCers. Short biographies of deceased compatriots and gymnasts. (= Historia Academica des Coburger Convents. Series of publications of the CC / AHCC in connection with the Student History Association of the CC. Volume 8/9), self-published, Stuttgart-Möhringen without year.
  • Konrad Herter: Encounters with humans and animals: memories of a zoologist 1891–1978 . Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1979, ISBN 978-3428045495 .
  • Hans Petzsch : Fritz Schmidt-Hoensdorf 65 years old. In: The Zoological Garden (NF). Volume 20, 1954, 307-308.
  • Hans Petzsch: Fritz Schmidt-Hoensdorf on the 65th birthday. In: Mammalian Communications. Volume 2, 1954, pp. 132-133.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Baumgarten (2001), p. 127.
  2. ↑ a b c d Mechow (undated), p. 242.
  3. ↑ a b c Petzsch (1954), pp. 132f.
  4. ↑ Herter (1979), p. 494.
  5. ↑ a b Baumgarten (2001), p. 128.
  6. ^ Member entry of Fritz Schmidt-Hoensdorf at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 11, 2015.
  7. ↑ Heinroth (1979), pp. 187 and 267f; see. also Klös et al. (1994), p. 141.
  8. ↑ a b Baumgarten (2001), p. 142.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Hoensdorf, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Friedrich Heinrich Johannes (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian and zoo director
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersleben
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1967
Place of death Berlin