Grete Meyerhoff

Grete Meyerhoff (* as Grete Stattler December 22, 1913 in Berlin ; † January 8, 2002 in Oranienburg ) was a German entomologist and bee researcher . She was considered the mother bee of the GDR .

Grete Meyerhoff came from a merchant family and graduated from the Luisen-Oberlyzeum in 1934. Since studying was initially out of the question for financial reasons, she trained as a beekeeper and worked as a beekeeper. In 1935 she became a member of the NSDAP. From 1940 she studied biology (zoology, botany) and paleontology at the University of Berlin. In 1943 she became a research assistant at the Zoological Institute. In March 1945 she received her doctorate with a dissertation on the honey bee (studies on the thermotaxis of the honey bee Apis mellifica). Before that she married the assistant at the Zoological Institute Dietrich Meyerhoff (he also had a doctorate, became a biology teacher and later went to the university library).

From July 1945 to July 1948 she was interned in the Sachsenhausen camp. In 1950 she became an assistant in the animal psychology department at the Psychological Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin and, from 1951, at the Institute for Poultry and Fur Breeding of the Faculty of Agriculture. There she set up the apiculture and silk construction department based in Hohen Neuendorf near Berlin. In 1954 she qualified as a professor ( The direct benefit of the honey bee Apis mellifica with special consideration of the relationship between bee and rapeseed ). From 1955 she was a lecturer, in 1958 a professor with a teaching assignment and in 1961 a professor with a full teaching assignment (from 1969 full professor). In 1974 she retired.

Fonts

• Rural bee pasture, Deutscher Bauernverlag 1955
• Small beekeeping school. Advice to start with, Neumann-Neudamm 1970, 1976
• Biology of the honeybee, in: H. Kettner, Borchardt u. a., basic knowledge for beekeepers. Textbook for the training of skilled workers, Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1988

literature

• The long road to equal opportunities. Scientists at the Berlin University, Humboldt University Berlin 2014, p. 40