Hans Honigmann

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Hans DS Honigmann (born July 5, 1891 in Breslau , † November 17, 1943 in Glasgow ) was a German zoologist .

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Honigmann was a brother of the Byzantinist Ernst Honigmann . He grew up in Breslau, where he attended Johannes-Gymnasium .

After graduating from high school, he studied zoology, physics and philosophy in Breslau and Heidelberg from 1910 . In 1916 he received his doctorate in Breslau under Willy Kükenthal with a thesis on the primordial skull of the humpback whale. rer. nat.

At the end of 1918, Honigmann was severely wounded and released from military service in World War I. He could not make up his mind to accept the director's position offered to him at the Poznan Zoo. Instead, he began a second degree in medicine in 1918, which he completed with a doctorate in 1921. To train as a specialist in internal diseases, Honigmann initially stayed as an assistant at the University Clinic in Breslau. He then practiced as a doctor for two years before moving to the Wroclaw Zoo as an assistant in 1927.

In March 1929, Honigmann was appointed director of the Breslau Zoo . He retained this position until May 1, 1935, when he was dismissed in accordance with the provisions of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service due to his - according to National Socialist definition - Jewish descent.

In 1935, Honigmann emigrated to England at the invitation of Julian Huxley , where he worked in London for about 18 months as an academic. In 1937 he took up the position of a scientific advisor for the newly established zoo in Dudley . With the outbreak of World War II he lost this job. As a science teacher at Blundell's School in Tiverton / Devonshire , he was eventually interned.

In 1940 Honigmann accepted an invitation from the Regius Professor of Zoology , Edward Hindle , to the zoological department of the University of Glasgow, where he was able to work scientifically again.

In the meantime, after his emigration, Honigmann was classified by the National Socialist police as an enemy of the state: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who would be killed by the occupation forces in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Subsequent SS special commands were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

Honigmann died in November 1943 as a result of a bacterial infection after several strokes. He had had a chronic heart condition since 1914/15.

family

Honigmann was married. His son is the English specialist Ernst AJ Honigmann .

Fonts (selection)

  • The primordial skull of the humpback whale. Breslau 1916 (= PhD thesis) = construction and development of the cartilage skull of the humpback whale. (= Zoologica 27, 2 = 69.) Schweigerbart, Stuttgart 1917.
  • Parasitic flagellates in the human lungs. Breslau 1921 (= dissertation med.).

Honors

Hans Honigmann was an honorary member of the New York Zoological Society.

literature

  • Otto Löwenstein: Dr. HDS Honigmann. In: Nature. 153, 1944, p. 74. Abstract
  • Heinrich Dathe: Hans Honigmann †. In: The Zoological Garden (NF). Volume 20, No. 1, 1953, pp. 47-49.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Otto Löwenstein: Dr. HDS Honigmann. In: Nature. 153, 1944, p. 74.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Heinrich Dathe: Hans Honigmann †. In: The Zoological Garden (NF). Volume 20, No. 1, 1953, p. 47.
  3. ↑ breslau-wroclaw.de ( memento of March 13, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on December 30, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b c d Heinrich Dathe: Hans Honigmann †. In: The Zoological Garden (NF). Volume 20, No. 1, 1953, p. 48.
  5. ^ Entry on Honigmann on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).
personal data
SURNAME Honigmann, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Honigmann, Hans DS
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1943
Place of death Glasgow