Gerhard Zschieschang

Gerhard Zschieschang (born March 8, 1931 in Bernsdorf ; † November 7, 2012 in Herrnhut ) was a German mycologist . His botanical-mycological author's abbreviation is Zschiesch.

Life

Gerhard Zschieschang attended elementary school in Bernsdorf from 1937. The family then moved to Gera . There he graduated from high school in 1949. He then studied music in Weimar , now in the GDR . From 1954 he worked as a violin teacher. From 1960 he practiced this activity at the music schools in Görlitz and Zittau . Since then he has lived in Herrnhut.

Zschieschang was married and had three brothers and two sisters.

Create

Zschieschang was introduced to mycology by the high school teacher and mushroom advisor Johannes Kerstan from Löbau . His knowledge was deepened by working with the Natural History Museum in Görlitz and by contacting Ingrid Dunger there. This resulted in the establishment of a mushroom herbarium , to which Zschieschang contributed around 6,600 specimens of over 1,350 species in the following years.

Several publications were made from 1969, especially on the mushroom flora of Upper Lusatia . His work on the fungal flora of the GDR was of particular importance , in which he dealt intensively with the genera of roof mushrooms ( Pluteus ), fibroids ( Psathyrella ) and velvet caps ( Conocybe ) as well as with gelatinous fungi ( Tremellomycetes ). As a result, numerous publications on these groups were made, with various identification keys being developed.

Another collaboration took place with Frieder Gröger . The genus of the Fälblings ( Hebeloma ) was worked on particularly intensively. An important publication was published on the species group around the sweet-smelling fell ( Hebeloma sacchariolens see left; Title: Hebeloma -Arten mit sacchariolens -eruch. ).

Gerhard Zschieschang was a member of the German Society for Mycology (DGfM) and a founding member of the Working Group of Saxon Mycologists (AGsM). He worked on the Red List and List of Species of Saxony - Mushrooms and on the Checklist of Mushrooms in Saxony.

literature

• Boletus. Mushroom journal. Volume 33 (2011), Issue 1, pp. 55-57.