Hanns Oehme

Hanns Oehme , also Hans (born May 23, 1899 in Dresden as Arthur Johannes Oehme , † 1944 ) was a German painter and cacti connoisseur. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Oehme ".

Live and act

Hanns Oehme was the son of the Dresden master upholsterer August Hermann Oehme, who later traded in antique furniture. His brother was Georg Egmont Oehme .

Hanns Oehme completed an apprenticeship as a decorator . After the First World War , in which he participated as a soldier from 1917 to 1918 , he began studying in 1918 at the Dresden Art Academy under Ferdinand Dorsch (1875–1938). Later he was a master student with Richard Dreher (1875-1932) and finished his studies in 1923. From 1924 Oehme worked as a freelance in Obervogelgesang near Pirna . In 1939 he was called up as a soldier and died on the Eastern Front in 1944 in World War II .

In addition to painting, Oehme was a great lover and connoisseur of cacti . Between 1938 and 1942 he published several articles on cactus science, including some initial descriptions of new species of cacti.

Honor taxon

Franz Buxbaum named the genus Oehmea Buxb in his honor . the plant family of the cactus family (Cactaceae).

Fonts (selection)

Echinocereus fobeanus Oeh. spec. nov. In: Contributions to succulent science and care. 1938, pp. 49-51.
The species of the genus Arequipa Br. & R. In: Cactaceae. Yearbooks of the German Cactus Society. Neumann, Neudamm 1940.
Form circle of the Gymn. Lafaldense Vpl. In: Cactaceae. Yearbooks of the German Cactus Society . 1st part, Neudamm, Neumann 1941.
Thelocactus krainzianus Oeh. spec. nov. In: Contributions to succulent science and care . Issue 1, 1941, pp. 1-3
Development tendencies within the genus Thelocactus B. and R. In: Contributions to succulents and care . Volume 2, 1941, pp. 40-41.

literature

Oh, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 506 .
Hanns Oehme: painting and graphics . For the exhibition from November 18, 1989 to January 6, 1990 in the Galerie Comenius. Editor: Kulturbund der DDR, Stadtleitung Dresden; Gallery Comenius.

swell

Walther Haage: cacti from A to Z . 3rd edition, Quelle & Meyer Verlag, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-494-01142-7
Short biography

Individual evidence

↑ Birth register StA Dresden II, No. 1893/1899
↑ Exact date of death unknown; Declared dead since July 31, 1949 by order of the Pirna District Court - D 32/61 - of October 27, 1961
↑ Succulents. Yearbooks of the Swiss Cactus Society . Volume 4, p. 17, Zurich, 1951
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

Web links

Author entry and list of the plant names described for Hanns Oehme at the IPNI
Image Elbe landscape

personal data
SURNAME	Oehme, Hanns
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Oehme, Arthur Johannes (maiden name); Oh, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and cactus connoisseur
DATE OF BIRTH	May 23, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	1944

[1] Birth register StA Dresden II, No. 1893/1899

[2] Exact date of death unknown; Declared dead since July 31, 1949 by order of the Pirna District Court - D 32/61 - of October 27, 1961

[3] Succulents. Yearbooks of the Swiss Cactus Society . Volume 4, p. 17, Zurich, 1951

[Burkhardt_2018-4] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .