Society for Natural History in Württemberg
The Society for Natural History in Württemberg eV is an association of natural scientists and friends of natural history based in Stuttgart, where it is connected to the State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart .
The society was founded on August 26, 1844 in Stuttgart as an association for patriotic natural history in Württemberg , inspired by a meeting of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors in Stuttgart in 1834. Ferdinand Krauss (who later became head of the royal Württemberg natural history cabinet, the later Museum of Natural History), Johann Gottlob von Kurr , the State Councilor Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig and the Tübingen professor Wilhelm von Rapp (President 1854 to 1868). The first president was Wilhelm von Urach , Count of Württemberg until 1854 . The current chairman (since 2013) is Theo Simon . It has had its current name since 1969.
They organize lectures and excursions and publish their annual journals, a scientific journal that has been published since 1846.
In 1870 they had around 400 members, in 1900 around 800 and in 1994 they had the highest number to date with around 860 members. Today (2015) they have 625 members. You award an honorary membership.
Honorary members
- 1845 Duke Paul Wilhelm v. Württemberg (Mergentheim)
- 1845 Carl FH von Ludwig (Cape Town)
- 1848 Christian G. Barth (Calw)
- 1848 Ernst Friedrich von Glocker (Breslau)
- 1869 Peter Merian (Basel)
- 1869 Wilhelm Eisenlohr (Karlsruhe)
- 1869 Wilhelm Philipp Schimper (Strasbourg)
- 1869 Ferdinand von Hochstetter (Vienna)
- 1869 Heinrich von Dechen (Bonn)
- 1869 Robert Mayer (Heilbronn)
- 1888 Ferdinand von Müller (Melbourne)
- 1894 Oscar von Fraas
- 1898 Baron Richard von König-Warthausen (Warthausen)
- 1906 Ferdinand Lökle
- 1907 Karl von Baur
- 1907 Moriz Probst (Ellwangen)
- 1908 Hermann Mohr
- 1909 Erwin von Bälz
- 1909 Gustav Jäger
- 1910 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (Friedrichshafen)
- 1912 Carl Benjamin Klunzinger
- 1915 David Geyer
- 1916 Theodor Engel (Eislingen)
- 1916 Christian Regelmann
- 1916 Oswald Hesse
- 1917 Heinrich von Eck
- 1917 Oskar von Kirchner
- 1917 Konrad Miller
- 1919 Wilhelm Dittus (Obermarchtal)
- 1919 Friedrich Krauss (Ravensburg)
- 1920 August von Schmidt
- 1922 Carl Beck
- 1922 Adolf Sauer
- 1925 Friedrich Blochmann (Tübingen)
- 1927 Georg von Wundt
- 1927 Wilhelm Bretschneider
- 1928 Ludwig Pilgrim
- 1927 Julius Eichler
- 1928 Friedrich Haag (Rottweil)
- 1929 Theodor Hueber (Ulm)
- 1929 Karl Mack
- 1929 Ernst Entress
- 1931 Hermann August Krauss (Tübingen)
- 1935 Robert Gradmann (Sindelfingen)
- 1935 Prince Maximilian von Waldburg zu Wolfegg a. Waldsee (Wolfegg)
- 1936 Bernhard Hauff (Holzmaden)
- 1938 Karl Feifel
- 1939 Robert Gross
- 1941 Walter Gmelin (Tübingen)
- 1941 Augustin Krämer
- 1942 Max von Sussdorf
- 1942 Karl Waidelich (Göppingen)
- 1944 Otto Feucht
- 1947 Ernst von Scheurlen
- 1947 Walter Bacmeister (Heilbronn)
- 1951 Hermann Niethammer (Calw)
- 1951 Felix Plieninger
- 1951 Heinrich Fischer (Bopfingen)
- 1951 Manfred Bräuhäuser
- 1952 Edwin Hennig (Tübingen)
- 1952 Karl Bertsch (Ravensburg)
- 1955 Friedrich Freiherr von Huene (Tübingen)
- 1955 Wilhelm Kreh
- 1956 Hans Schwenkel
- 1956 Otto Neunhoeffer (Blaubeuren)
- 1956 Wilhelm Otto Dietrich (Berlin)
- 1958 Georg Wagner (Tübingen)
- 1960 Karl Rau (Tübingen)
- 1960 Theodor Heuss
- 1961 Alfred Bentz (Hanover)
- 1961 Otto Linck (Güglingen)
- 1961 Walter Zimmermann (Tübingen)
- 1962 Eduard Spranger (Tübingen)
- 1963 Erwin Lindner
- 1963 Carl Adam
- 1966 Hermann Lautensach
- 1966 Richard Lohrmann (Riedlingen)
- 1968 Heinrich Walter
- 1969 Wilhelm Kallfass (Leonberg)
- 1971 Ernst Schüz (Ludwigsburg)
- 1972 Otto Pflugfelder
- 1977 Werner Hofmann
- 1978 Fritz Sauter (Aalen)
- 1980 Josef Sorg (Ravensburg)
- 1981 Walter Carlé
- 1984 Hermann Aldinger
- 1986 Horst Janus (Ludwigsburg)
- 1987 Hans Scheerer (Schorndorf)
- 1993 Friedrich A. Kipp
- 1994 Hans Haas (Seewald-Besenfeld)
- 1994 P. Agnellus Schneider (Bad Wurzach)
- 1994 Eugen Seibold (Freiburg)
- 1994 Adolf Seilacher (Tübingen)
- 1994 Bernhard Ziegler
- 1995 Helmut Hölder
- 1996 Ottmar Engelhardt (Neresheim)
- 1997 Walter Schall
- 1998 Erich Rexer (Baienfurt)
- 2001 Otto F.Geyer (Reutlingen)
- 2001 Oskar Sebald (Freiberg aN).
- 2002 Frank Westphal (Tübingen)
- 2003 Rotraud Dorgerloh
- 2009 Siegmund Seybold (Ludwigsburg)
- 2010 Ulrich Kull
- 2014 Helmut Herwanger (Bad Waldsee)
- 2015 Hans-Dieter Görtz (Münster)
- 2015 Hans Hagdorn (Ingelfingen)
literature
- Annual books of the Association for Patriotic Natural History Württemberg, Biodiversity Library, from Volume 1, 1845