Georg Rörig

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Georg Friedrich Carl Rörig (born October 31, 1864 in Glogau , Province of Silesia , † May 26, 1941 in Görlitz ) was a German agricultural scientist , agricultural zoologist and pioneer of bird protection .

Life

Georg Rörig was a son of the railway secretary August Wilhelm Rörig and his wife Ida Johanna Marie Rörig. After attending the Luisenstädtisches Gymnasium in Berlin until 1883 and the Gymnasium in Erfurt in 1884, he completed an agricultural apprenticeship from 1884 to 1887. From 1887 to 1891 he studied natural sciences and agricultural sciences at the University of Halle , passed the state examination for teachers at agricultural schools in 1891 and received his doctorate on March 2, 1892 . Georg Rörig became an assistant at the Zoological Institute of the Agricultural University in Berlin in 1893 and initially a. o. Professor of crop production , cultural engineering and equipment science at the Albertus University in Königsberg before he became a research assistant at the Imperial Biological Institute for Agriculture and Forestry in Dahlem near Steglitz on May 1, 1898 .

Georg Rörig's writings combined zoology and agricultural science.

In 1899, during a stay in Rossitten , he gave Johannes Thienemann the suggestion to found an ornithological station and then gave decisive support in the establishment of the Rossitten ornithological station in 1901 , the first German ornithological station, by eliminating all local and personal difficulties.

In the summer of 1903 Georg Rörig was supposed to clarify for the ministry the question of whether seagulls contribute to the fertilization and thus the fortification of the dunes through their feces and traveled to the East Frisian Islands to prepare a comprehensive report . He visited the local bird colonies and came to the conclusion that the seagulls did not contribute to the fortification of the dunes, but considered the creation and maintenance of sea bird sanctuaries to be necessary.

In 1918 Georg Rörig retired as a privy councilor and head of the zoological department of the Reichsanstalt für Forst- und Landwirtschaft.

Georg Rörig was admitted to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina on April 9, 1909 ( registration number 3306 ) .

In 1909 he was made an honorary member of the Royal Hungarian Ornithological Center by the Hungarian Minister of Agriculture.

family

Georg Rörig had been with Adele Franziska Alwine (born October 7, 1873), born on September 27, 1893. De Barÿ, daughter of the married couple Heinrich Adam De Barÿ and Johanna Caroline Sophie De Barÿ in Frankfurt am Main .

Fonts

  • Oscinis frit and pusilla. Contribution to the knowledge of the little enemies of agriculture . Dissertation, Halle 1892
  • The importance of the German crows for agriculture and forestry . Arb. Biol. Dept. Land u. Forestry emperor. Health Department Berlin, l, Berlin 1900, pp. 285-400
  • Studies of the economic importance of insectivorous birds. Work from the Biological Department for Agriculture and Forestry at the Imperial Health Office, IV, 1, Parey, Berlin 1903, pp. 1–50 ( digitized version )
  • Investigations into the food of our native birds, with special consideration of the day and night birds of prey . Work from the Biological Department for Agriculture and Forestry at the Imperial Health Office, IV, 1, Parey, Berlin 1903, pp. 51–120 ( digitized version )
  • Wildlife and agriculture. The farmer's friends and enemies among wild animals. Ulmer, Stuttgart 1906 ( digitized version )
  • with Paul Sorauer : Plant protection: Instructions for the practical farmer to recognize and combat damage to crops. 4th edition, German Agricultural Society, Berlin 1907 ( digitized version )
  • with Friedrich Krüger: Diseases and damage to useful and ornamental plants in horticulture. Ulmer, Stuttgart 1908 ( digitized version )
  • with Arthur Binz : The animal raw materials and their refinement . The raw materials of the economic area between the North Sea and Persian Gulf, 1, 1916

literature

  • Rudolf Drost and Ernst Schüz : Georg Rörig † (October 21, 1864 to May 26, 1941) . In: Der Vogelzug, 12, 1941, pp. 201–202 ( digitized version )
  • Sarah Jansen: Pest. History of a scientific and political construct 1840–1920 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2003, p. 166
  • Herbert Ringleben: Georg Rörig (1864–1941) . In: Data on the knowledge of ornithologists in East Frisia. Contribution Natural Lower Saxony, 42, 1989, p. 216 ( digitized version )
  • Johannes Thienemann: I. Annual report (1901.) of the ornithological station Rossitten of the German Ornithological Society . In: Journal for Ornithology, 1902, pp. 137–209 ( digitized version )
  • Christian Tilitzki : Rörig, Georg . In: The Albertus University of Königsberg. Its history from the founding of the Empire to the fall of the Province of East Prussia (1871–1945) . Volume 1, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2012, p. 609 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Germany; Inventory: 903, In: Ancestry.de
  2. ^ Johannes Thienemann: I. annual report (1901.) of the ornithological station Rossitten of the German Ornithological Society . In: Journal for Ornithology, 1902, p. 142 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Albert Wangerin (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 46th issue. On commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1910, p. 42 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Rörig, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rörig, Georg Friedrich Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist, agricultural zoologist and pioneer of bird protection
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Glogau , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1941
Place of death Goerlitz