Hans Buchner (zoologist)

Hans Buchner (born October 6, 1906 in Augsburg , † December 29, 1997 in Munich ) was a German teacher and zoologist .

Life

Hans Buchner came as the son of the businessman Hans Buchner and his wife Barbara geb. Ludwig to the world. He was Catholic and had been with Edeltraud born in 1937. Hartmann married. This marriage resulted in two sons, including the physicist and politician Klaus Buchner , who was federal chairman of the ÖDP from 2003 to 2010 .

Hans Buchner studied philosophy, biology, chemistry and geography at the University of Munich . Then he was a trainee teacher for the secondary school service at the Niederaltaich monastery school . During this time he was partly also scientifically active at the Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology . After completing his doctorate in 1937, he received a scholarship at the University of Basel, which he had to break off in 1939 because the outbreak of war threatened to break out. In 1948 he was appointed to the Bavarian Ministry of Education in order to organize a new beginning for the Bavarian grammar schools for numerous subjects. In 1952 he took over the management of the Gisela-Gymnasium in Munich as senior director of studies , which he held until his retirement in 1971.

From 1949 he worked as a private lecturer ; In 1959 he was promoted to Associate Professor of Zoology . He taught reproductive physiology and heredity at the University of Munich . His research area was the generation change in rotifers , which under certain conditions reproduce bisexual, under other conditions unisexual ( parthenogenetic ).

literature

• Who is who? The German Who's Who, Schmidt-Römhild, 2001