Gert Schliephake

Gert Schliephake (born September 6, 1925 in Wehrstedt ; † May 24, 2007 in Koethen ) was a German zoologist and university professor .

Life

Schliephake was born in 1925 in Wehrstedt, today a district of Halberstadt , as the son of the doctor Walter Schliephake and his wife Gertrud. Here he spent childhood and youth together with his sister Inge, who was four years his junior.

First he attended elementary school in Wehrstedt and from 1936 the cathedral high school in Halberstadt . His main subjects were Latin and Ancient Greek .

From 1943 onwards, being called up for the Reich Labor Service and for military service interrupted school education. Towards the end of the war in 1945, Schliephake was wounded in the right arm and was taken prisoner by the British and the United States. It was not until Easter 1946 that he resumed his schooling, which he finished with his Abitur in 1947.
After only one year of new teacher training, he taught from 1949 to 1964 as a country teacher in the Halberstadt and Wernigerode districts in almost all subjects and grade levels.

During his new apprenticeship, he wrote his state examination thesis on the insect order of the fringed winged winged ( Thysanoptera ) on the subject of the biology of the Thysanoptera of the alfalfa, Medicago sativa . 1963 Gert Schliephake is an external PhD on the subject variability studies in the males of the genus Thrips at the Zoological Institute of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg for Dr. rer. nat. PhD. His doctoral thesis is published in full in the German Entomological Journal .

From 1964 Schliephake worked as a lecturer for general and special zoology as well as development theory in the zoology department at the University of Education in Köthen . In 1970 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the revision of the European Genera of the Subtribus Thripina (Thysanoptera) at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

In 1975 Schliephake was appointed associate professor for special zoology at the University of Education. In addition to his teaching activities in the context of zoology and ancestry theory, he worked for many years as dean of the mathematics and natural science faculty and head of the teaching collective general and special zoology . Schliephake retired in Köthen in 1988 , but continued to work in the field of Thysanoptera research.

Gert Schliephake died on May 24, 2007 in Koethen .

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From 1964 to the end of the 1960s and from 1972 to 1987 Schliephake mainly dealt with questions and problems of agricultural entomology . An outstanding expression of his research activity was the 66th part of the work Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, founded by Dahl, entitled Thysanoptera , Fransenflügler , published in 1979 in collaboration with Karlheinz Klimt , who also taught in Köthen . Up until 2005 a large number of articles were published. a. on taxonomic and zoogeographic issues as well as fossil Thysanoptera finds. So he described 20 fossil Thysanoptera species from the Bitterfeld region. Much of his work is listed on the London Zoological Record .

In 1983 and 1985, two newly discovered species from the Bitterfeld area and Mongolia were named after him: Haplothrips schliephakei and Thrips schliephakei.

Publications (selection)

• Contributions to the biology of the Thysanoptera of alfalfa. Re. Entomol. 11, Berlin 1961: pp. 576-593
• Investigations into the variability in the males of the genus Thrips L. (Thys.). German entomol. Z. 11, Berlin 1964: pp. 215-317
• The Thysanoptera fauna of the Harz region. Hercynia 2, Leipzig 1965: pp. 145-162
• Revision of the European genera of the subtribe Thripina (Thysanoptera). Habil.schr. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Halle (Saale) 1970
• Contributions to the phylogenetic systematics in Thysanoptera. Contribution Entomol. 25, Berlin 1975: pp. 5-13
• A contribution to the occurrence of the Thysanoptera in the Assov Sea. Knowledge Notebooks Pädag. University of Applied Sciences Köthen 1978: pp. 109–111
• [u. K. Klimt ] Thysanoptera, fringed winged wing. in: DAHL, Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 66th part. G. Fischer Verlag, Jena 1979
• [u. F. Koch] On the Thysanoptera fauna of the Ore Mountains. Acta Mus. Reginachradecensis Ser. A Suppl. 1980: pp. 105-108
• Contribution to the occurrence of Thysanoptera on grain in: Pests in the industrial grain production, congress and conference report of the Martin Luther University 37, Halle 1982: pp. 218–226
• Thysanoptera from the Mongolian People's Republic - Results of the Mong.-Dtsch. Biol. Expedition 1962, Mitt. Zool. Mus. 61, Berlin 1985: pp. 55-61
• Taxonomic-zoogeographic comparison of West Palearctic (Central European) and East Palearctic (Mongolian) Thysanoptera. Knowledge Contributions. Univ. Halle-Wittenberg 6, Halle 1989: pp. 59-61
• Contribution to the expansion of faunistic knowledge of Thysanoptera or Thrips in the Swiss Jura. Mitt. Entomol. Gesellschaft 40, Basel 1990: pp. 8–9
• Contribution to the knowledge of fossil fringed wings from the amber of the tertiary of the Bitterfeld area Entomol. Message Ber. 41, Dresden 1997: pp. 66-67
• Thysanoptera, fringed winged. in: STRESEMANN, Exkursionsfauna von Deutschland, Vol. 2, Invertebrates : Insects - Spectrum Akademischer Verlag, Stuttgart 2000: pp. 155–159
• 2001 Directory of Thysanoptera Germany in: B. Klausnitzer (Ed.), Entomofauna Germanica 5. - Entomological News and Reports, Supplement 6, Dresden 2001: pp. 91-106
• Fossil Thysanoptera from Baltic amber. Mitt. Geol.-Paleont. Inst. Univ. Hamburg , Issue 87, Hamburg 2003: pp. 171–182
• Further fossil fringed wings from the HOFFEINS collection Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum (Entomology) 13, Bytom 2005: pp. 61–69

literature

• Wehrstedt personalities from four centuries. in: Wehrstedter Heimatschriften, Vol. 13, Buchvertrieb Elfi Legel, Helmstedt 1994
• Memories of Wehrstedt. in: Wehrstedter Heimatschriften, Bd. 20, Buchvertrieb Elfi Legel, Helmstedt 2001

Web links

• Gert Schliephake homepage