Georg Köstermann

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Georg Köstermann (born July 26, 1913 in Eltze ; † April 25, 1994 ) was a German railway employee, ornithologist and local researcher .

Life

Georg Köstermann, born in Eltze in 1913, completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer in Braunschweig after finishing school . He then worked in Hanover for the Deutsche Reichsbahn , and from 1949 for the Deutsche Bundesbahn .

Köstermann was a pioneer of ornithology and bird photography in the area around Peine . For around a quarter of a century, from 1952 to 1987, he kept an ornithological diary about the region of his hometown Eltze, in what is now the municipality of Uetze .

Fonts (selection)

  • Dieter Wittenberg, Georg Köstermann, Friedrich Giere, Fritz Giffhorn, Walter Martschink: Home between Erse and Fuhse. Village and corridor in the Peiner Nordkreis , published by the Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung, Peine: Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung, 1970

literature

  • Hans Oelke: Georg Köstermann (July 26, 1913 - April 25, 1994). Pioneer of ornithology and bird photography in the Peiner area . In: Contributions to the natural history of Lower Saxony , Peine: Oelke, ISSN 0340-4277, 2013
  • Hans Oelke: Georg Köstermann - pioneer of ornithology and bird photography in the Peiner area . In: Festschrift for the 60th anniversary of the Peiner Biologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft von 1953 eV: 1953–2013 , Peine: Peiner Biologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft von 1953 eV, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e o. V .: Köstermann, Georg in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of September 26, 2013, last accessed on June 4, 2020
  2. ↑ Information from the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Kostermann, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway worker, ornithologist and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Eltze
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1994