Hans Hinrich Sambraus

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Hans Hinrich Sambraus (born August 31, 1935 in Bargteheide in Holstein ) is a veterinarian and zoologist who became internationally known primarily as a livestock specialist . He was Professor of Animal Husbandry and Behavioral Studies at the Technical University of Munich in Freising-Weihenstephan and is a pioneer in animal welfare.

Life

Hans Hinrich Sambraus is the son of the hardware dealer Otto Sambraus and his wife Margarete and grew up in Bargteheide. He passed his Abitur in 1957 at the Stormarn School in Ahrensburg and studied veterinary medicine and zoology at the universities of Munich, Berlin and Bern from 1957 to 1962 (approbation 1963). In 1965 he received his doctorate. med. vet. and in 1968 (with Konrad Lorenz ) Dr. rer. nat. In 1971 he completed his habilitation in the field of behavioral science (ethology). From 1981 to 2000 he was professor for animal husbandry and behavioral science at the Technical University of Munich in Freising-Weihenstephan.

In his research, he dealt primarily with animal welfare and animal welfare and made a significant contribution to ensuring that these topics were recognized in scientific research and in practice. In 1981 he founded the Society for the Conservation of Old and Endangered Domestic Animals . Several internationally known works on farm animal breeds emerged from his work. For a long time he was chairman of the animal welfare commission of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and has always advocated changes in factory farming .

Awards and honors

Works (in selection)

  • The Sexual Behavior of Domesticated Native Ruminants (1973) ISBN 3-489-75136-1
  • with Harald Brummer: farm animal ethology: the behavior of agricultural. Farm animals; an applied behavioral science for practice (1978) ISBN 3-489-60236-6
  • Evidence of suffering in animals (1981)
  • with Engelhard Boehncke: Ecological animal husbandry: theoretical and practical foundations for organic agriculture (1986) ISBN 3-7880-9726-4
  • Atlas of farm animal breeds: 250 breeds in words and pictures (1st edition 1986) ISBN 978-3800132195
  • Endangered farm animal breeds: their breeding history, use and conservation (1st edition 1994) ISBN 3-8001-4099-3
  • Color Atlas of Rare Farm Animals: 240 Endangered Breeds from Around the World (2010) ISBN 978-3800158652
  • Exotic cattle: water buffalo, bison, wisent, dwarf zebu, yak (2006) ISBN 978-3800148356

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professor Dr. Dr. Hans Hinrich Sambraus 65 years old ( Memento from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/region/stormarn/article1976944/Dieser-Mann-wissen-sich-aus-mit-Zickenkrieg.html
  3. ^ Arche Nova, magazine of the society for the preservation of old and endangered domestic animal breeds, 2/2016, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Sambraus, Hans Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian, zoologist and ethologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bargteheide