Fritz Steiniger

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Fritz Hermann Steiniger (born February 23, 1908 in Aschbuden , Elbing district ; † November 9, 1985 in Hanover ) was a German hereditary biologist, social anthropologist, ornithologist and university professor .

Life and education

Fritz Hermann Steiniger was the son of the farmer Gustav Steiniger and his wife Marie, née Thiessen. He attended elementary school and then switched to the humanistic high school in Elbing . After graduating, he studied medicine and biology as well as physics, mathematics, geography and geology at the Universities of Königsberg , Greifswald and Berlin . After graduating in 1932, he was awarded a doctorate in Greifswald. phil. PhD and was then employed as the first assistant to Günther Just at the Institute for Human Heredity and Eugenics . He completed his habilitation at Just in 1937 and then continued to work as a private lecturer at Just .

Period of National Socialism, World War II and professorship in Greifswald

As part of the takeover by the Nazis , he joined in 1933 the SA at, from which he retired in 1936 again. In August 1935 he joined the NSDAP and from 1936 worked as a clerk in the racial politics office of the NSDAP . Furthermore, he was employed as a councilor in the Reich Health Office.

During the Second World War he was drafted into the Central Archives of the Wehrmacht in Berlin in 1941 . Soon after the start of the German-Soviet War , he was based in Riga and became a pest control and racial policy officer at the head of civil administration in the Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO) and head of the Institute for Zoology in Riga-Kleistenhof and the anthropological laboratory (control of the measures against typhus ) Politics department in the RKO. He held the rank of captain of the DRC . According to the Holocaust survivor and university professor Percy Gurwitz , Steiniger is said to have succeeded in submitting information in Berlin that the Karaimen, as members of a Turkic people , were exempted from extermination despite their Jewish faith . Gurwitz was part of an eight-member work detachment from the Riga Ghetto that was deployed at the Institute for Zoology in Riga-Kleistenhof. Under Steiniger's leadership, the Jews are said to have been treated well there and, after the institute was closed down due to the war, received help with going into hiding.

From 1942, after Just's departure, Steiniger was provisional head of the Institute for Hereditary Science at the University of Greifswald and held three to four times a year focused lecture periods. In Greifswald he was appointed adjunct professor in 1945.

post war period

After the end of the war he set up the hygienic and bacteriological investigation offices in Husum and Flensburg , which he took over as head. He also worked at the technical school for pest control in Husum and dealt with the fight against autochthonous malaria in Schleswig-Holstein. At the Federation for Bird Protection , he took over the chairmanship of the Schleswig-Holstein regional group that he had established. From 1952 he worked at the Medical Examination Office in Hanover. From 1954 to 1973 he conducted seminars on " Animal Ecology" at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover , in particular on animal psychology . In the mid-1950s he became director of the natural history department at the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover . In addition, he headed the Institute for Environmental Protection and Social Anthropology in Heinsen and was a member of the State Health Council.

Steiniger was a pioneer in nature and animal photography and in April 1971 co-founded the Society of German Animal Photographers (GDT). The honorary award of the GDT was named after him.

Since 1952 he was married to Ingeborg, nee Bertram. The couple had a daughter.

Fonts

  • The phenomena of catalepsy in stick insects and water striders , Springer, Berlin 1933 (also Greifswald, Phil. Diss., 1932)
  • People and race. In: Greifswalder Universitätszeitung from March 10, 1935.
  • Disgusting taste and visual adaptation of some insects: (attempts at feeding birds) , Akad. Verlagsges., Leipzig 1937 (also Greifswald, Phil. Hab.-Schr., 1937)
  • Warning and camouflaging in the animal kingdom: A picture book on the protection adjustment question , Bermühler, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1938
  • Vogelparadies Drausensee: A picture book about bird life, duck hunting, etc. Fishing , Grenzlandverl. Boettcher, Schlossberg / Leipzig 1938
  • The photography of wild animals: Techn. U. animal psychol. Experience from d. animal photo Practice , Nicolaische Verlbh., Berlin 1942
  • The dangers of the plague of flies and how to combat them: fly information sheet d. Med.-zool. Inst. D. Reichskommissariat fd Ostland , Dt. Publishing u. Druckerei-Ges. im Ostland, Riga 1942
  • The delousing of fur and winter things during the summer , Dt. Publishing u. Druckerei-Ges. im Ostland, Riga 1942
  • Something about the most common delousing errors (from the Reich Ministry for the occupied eastern territories, Berlin, "Inst. F. Medicine. Zoology", Riga-Kleistenhof), Schoetz, Berlin 1943
  • The official assessment of rat control agents , Müller, Oldenburg 1946
  • Introduction to the practical control of house and health pests , Schaper, Hannover 1948
  • Rat biology and rat control including the toxicology of common rat poisons , Enke, Stuttgart 1952
  • The photography of wild animals , Verl. F. Applied Sciences, Baden-Baden 1955
  • The big plover (gold, lapwing and mornell plover) , Ziemsen, Wittenberg 1959 (reissued in 2005 by Westarp-Wiss.-Verl.-Ges.)
  • With the migratory birds to the Arctic Circle , Landbuch-Verl., Hannover 1966
  • The Rat: Ratten u. Rat control in d. Niederjagd , German Hunting Protection Association e. V .; Munich-Solln, Bonn 1970
  • Journey to Runde , Kilda-Verlag, Greven 1972
  • Living water: Festschr. d. Aquariums in d. Natural History Abbot d. Lower Saxony. Landesmuseums , W. Hansen, self-published, Hanover 1972

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Who is who? : Das Deutsche who's who, Arani, 2002, p. 1393
  2. ^ A b Hospital Hygiene , Health Care and Disinfection, Volume 67, Medical Literary Publishing Company., 1975, p. 165
  3. ↑ a b c Alexander von Schwerin: Experimentalization of the human being: The geneticist Hans Nachtsheim and the comparative genetic pathology 1920-1945 , Göttingen 2004, p. 214
  4. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 600
  5. ↑ Percy Gurwitz: Guilt for the Holocaust , City of Erlangen 2010, p. 7ff.
  6. ↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Supplement 3.) At the same time, dissertation Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 , p. 151.
  7. ↑ Britt van den Berg: The new animal psychology and its scientific representatives (from 1900 to 1945) , Tenea Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86504-258-3 , p. 197
  8. ↑ Lust auf Lünen 2008 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.gdtfoto.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gdtfoto.de
personal data
SURNAME Steiniger, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steiniger, Fritz Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hereditary biologist, social anthropologist, ornithologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Ash stalls , district of Elbing
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1985
Place of death Hanover