Fritz Zumpt

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Fritz Konrad Ernst Zumpt (born May 11, 1908 , † October 25, 1985 ) was a German zoologist and medical entomologist .

Life

After graduating from school in 1927, Zumpt studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1931 with the distinction magna cum laude . In March 1932 he joined the NSDAP Hamburg and in 1935 he joined the National Socialist People's Welfare and the Reich Colonial Association . He was also an employee of the NSDAP's Office of Racial Policy. From February 1933 to August 1934 he worked as a gas handling manager (specialist in disinfestation and insect control) at the Hamburg company Tech. In September 1934 he became an employee of the Tropical Institute in Hamburg, first as an assistant and later as head of the department for applied entomology. During this time he specialized in medical entomology, which is the relationship between insects and human health. He made several research trips to East and West Africa. He became an expert on tsetse flies , about which he published a book in 1936 in which he describes their distinguishing features, their way of life and their control. He also dealt with ticks, mites, bed bugs and various medically relevant types of flies. His main interests included research into fly maggot disease (myiasis).

In 1939 he wrote about Africa: "The German [...] should urge the natives to develop the economic wealth of the country under his supervision and guidance." During the Second World War, Zumpt worked as a scientist in the public health service. From September 1942 he headed the department for medical entomology at the Tropical Institute in Hamburg and kept an extensive database with index cards, reprints and samples. Zumpt was also the managing director of the Hamburg Society for Racial Hygiene . He was also a speaker for colonial and racial policy of the NSDAP in Hamburg. On January 10, 1945, he took part in a pest control conference in Auschwitz , according to a personnel file, parts of which were destroyed by order of the health administration; on July 31, 1945 he was released. As part of the denazification process , he was classified as unencumbered in an appeal process in 1948. In the same year he moved with his wife Gertrud to Parkhurst, a suburb of Johannesburg , in South Africa, where he worked at the Institute for Medical Research. In 1975 he was habilitated as a professor at the Witwatersrand University . Fritz and Gertrud Zumpt had two sons.

Between 1928 and 1981 Zumpt published 321 specialist articles.

Publications (selection)

  • The coleopter fauna of the steppe heather biotope of Bellinchen (Oder) and Oderberg (fauna marchica). Dissertation. Contribution. Naturdenkmalpflege 14, Issue 5 ,: 363-449, 1931
  • Coleoplerorum Catalogus Pars 131: Curcutionidae: Subfam. Tanymecinae. W. Junk, Berlin (co-author with K. Günther), 1933
  • The tsetse flies. Their identifying features, way of life and control. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1936
  • Colonial question and National Socialist racial standpoint. P. Hartung, 1938
  • Medical entomology floor plan. - JA Barth, Leipzig (co-author with Fritz Weyer), 1941
  • Harmful insects and arachnids in warm countries: Recognition, importance, control (co-author with Fritz Weyer), Thaden, 1942
  • Bed bugs, Barth, 1942
  • The housefly, Barth, 1945
  • Insects as pathogens and disease carriers, Kosmos, 1956
  • Calliphorinae, E. Schweizerbart, 1956
  • Calliphorinae (Diptera, Cyclorrhaphada). Part 1. Calliphorini and Chrysomyiini, Explor. Parc. Nat. Albert, Mission GF de Witte (1933–1935), 1956
  • Calliphorinae (Diptera, Cyclorrhaphada). Part 2. Rhiniini, Explor. Parc. Nat. Albert, Mission GF de Witte (1933–1935), 1958
  • Calliphorinae (Diptera, Cyclorrhaphada). Part 3. Miltogramminae, Explor. Parc. Nat. Albert, Mission GF de Witte (1933–1935), 1961
  • The Arthropod parasites of Vertebrates in Africa south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Region). Vol. 1. (Chelicerata). South African Institute of Medical Research, 1961
  • Myiasis in Man and Animals in the Old World, Butterworths, London, 1965
  • The Arthropod parasites of Vertebrates in Africa south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Region). Vol. 3. (Insecta excl. Phtiraptera). South African Institute of Medical Research, 1966
  • Human and veterinary entomology In: JG Helmcke, D. Starck, H. Wermuth: Handbuch der Zoologie. Volume 4: Arthropada - 2nd half: Insecta, 1968
  • Calliphorinae (Diptera, Cyclorrhaphada). Part 4. Sarcophagidae, Explor. Parc. Nat. Virunga, Mission GF de Witte (1933–1935), 1972
  • The Stomoxyine biting flies of the world: Diptera, Muscidae: taxonomy, biology, economic importance and control measures, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1973

literature

  • Anonymous: Obituary [Zumpt, Fritz Konrad Ernst (1908–1985)] Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa. Volume 49, No. 2, 1986: 397-400
  • Rainer Hering: "... that when you feel guilty you want to react as I hope you will." An exchange of letters about the "Third Reich" between the tropical medicine specialists Erich Martini and Otto Hecht 1946/47. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History 84 (1998), 185–224
  • Stefan Wulf, The Hamburg Tropical Institute 1919 to 1945 - Foreign Cultural Policy and Colonial Revisionism after Versailles. Berlin / Hamburg, 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-039310-4 , p. 148.
  2. ↑ State Center for Political Education Hamburg .
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. 2001, p. 286.
  4. ^ Stefan Wulf: The Hamburg Tropical Institute 1919 to 1945 - Foreign cultural policy and colonial revisionism after Versailles. Berlin / Hamburg 1994, p. 147.
personal data
SURNAME Zumpt, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zumpt, Fritz Konrad Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1908
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1985