Gustav Wendelberger

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Gustav Wendelberger (born March 29, 1915 in Vienna , † December 17, 2008 in Baden near Vienna ) was an Austrian botanist and university professor. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Wendelb. “He is best known as a plant sociologist and vegetation expert. In addition to Austria, he worked throughout the Pannonian region , with the local steppes being his main focus . It was actively involved in nature conservation.

Life

Wendelberger was born as the son of the engineer Gustav Wendelberger. In 1934 his first scientific work appeared with the Matura thesis Praterflora . He studied botany and natural sciences at the University of Vienna from 1934 to 1939 . Since 1935 he was a member of the NSDAP , since November 1936 also the SA and later the SS . His dissertation in 1941 was on the subject of the vegetation of the salt lakes of Lake Neusiedl . Before the dissertation, Josias Braun-Blanquet in Montpellier and 1939 Reinhold Tüxen in Hanover had two half-year research stays with two of the leading plant sociologists of the time. His habilitation took place in 1945 with the subject on the sociology of continental halophyte vegetation in Central Europe at Knoll in Vienna. In 1950 he had to do his habilitation again with the same work because his habilitation from 1945 was not recognized. From 1950 he was a private lecturer. In the same year he became Secretary General of the Institute for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management of the Austrian Nature Conservation Union . From 1955 he was chairman of the Austrian Nature Conservation Union. From 1960 to 1972 head of the Institute for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management . From 1973 until his retirement in 1985 he was Professor of Vegetation Ecology at the University of Vienna.

He had been married to the biologist, university professor and book author Elfrune Wendelberger since 1950 , who was his first doctoral student in 1950. In 1953, together with Erwin Emil Alfred, he described Janchen as the wild subspecies of rape , Brassica rapa subsp. sylvestris .

For many years he was a committee member and chairman of the botany section of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna. From 1980 to 1985 its president. There were also other voluntary positions in various organizations.

Wendelberger and his wife were involved in many nature conservation activities. This includes the establishment of the first nature reserves on Lake Neusiedl and the rescue of the Krimml waterfalls before the construction of a hydropower plant. In 1984 he was involved in the occupation of the Hainburger Au against the destruction of the alluvial forest on the Danube through the planned construction of a hydroelectric power station.

Wendelberger wrote 350 works by the end of his life.

Awards

Fonts

  • 1943 The salt plant associations of Lake Neusiedl. In: Wiener Botanische Zeitschrift, 1943, No. 3, Vol. 92, pp. 124–144.
  • 1950 On the sociology of the continental halophyte vegetation of Central Europe - with special consideration of the salt plant communities at Lake Neusiedl
  • 1953 The dry grass in the nature reserve on the Perchtoldsdorfer Heide near Vienna - a sociological study
  • 1953 Small Flora from Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland; with Erwin Janchen
  • 1955 The remaining forests of the Parndorfer Platte in Northern Burgenland - the natural prerequisites for site-appropriate reforestation
  • 1956 Surroundings of Vienna - excursion guide for the 11th International Plant Geography Excursion through the Eastern Alps, with Heinrich Wagner
  • 1956 Vegetation studies on the Dachstein plateau
  • 1959 The vegetation of the Neusiedler See area
  • 1960 The nature and landscape protection areas of Austria
  • 1960 The section Heterophyllae of the genus Artemisia
  • 1962 Contribution to alpine karst research
  • 1962 The plant communities of the Dachstein Plateau (including the Grimming Stock)
  • 1972 nature and man
  • 1973 landscape protection inventories
  • 1975 Expert opinion on ecological and biological aspects - flood protection Vienna
  • 1975 Alluvial forest ecosystem
  • 1984 The four-dimensional vegetation structure of the earth
  • 1984 On the viticulture history of the Transylvanian Saxons and their Moselle homeland, with Heinz Heltmann
  • 1985 Contributions to the flora, vegetation and fauna of Transylvania, with Heinz Heltmann
  • 1985 Contributions to the plant geography of the south-eastern Carpathian region, with Heinz Heltmann
  • 1988 The Department of Vegetation Science and Plant Physiology of the University of Vienna visits the Southern Alps
  • 1992 ethnobotany. Attempt at a concept. In: Austrian Journal for Folklore XLVI / 95, p. 60.
  • 2000 works from the Biological Station Lunz; 1308: The moors of the Lunzer Obersee area in Lower Austria - (an outline)
  • 2004 Blossom diversity in the Pannonian - plants in eastern Lower Austria, northern Burgenland and in Vienna, with Raimund Fischer

literature

  • Heinz Heltmann: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustav Wendelberger (1915–2008), a meritorious supporter of botanical research in Transylvania. Mauritiana 2012/20, Issues 3: 559-572.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Salt Plant Societies of Lake Neusiedl, 1943
  2. ↑ The same subspecies was already known a year earlier by AR Clapham as Brassica rapa subsp. campestris has been described. Due to the nomenclature rules, the older name is always the valid one and the name given by Janchen and Wendelberger is therefore only a synonym. See The Euro + Med PlantBase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity, accessed on January 4, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Wendelberger, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 2008
Place of death Baden near Vienna