Hans Sorrowful Lion

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Hans Kummerlöwe (born September 5, 1903 in Leipzig , † August 11, 1995 in Munich ), also Kumerloeve since around 1947 , was a German ornithologist .

Life

Kummerlöwe studied natural sciences at the University of Leipzig . During his studies he got to know Günther Niethammer and in 1923 he joined the German Ornithological Society . He wrote his dissertation on the subject of “Comparative studies on the gonadal system of female birds” in 1930 with Johannes Meisenheimer .

The NSDAP had joined Kummerlöwe in 1925 and even earlier the SA . In November 1925 he was a co-founder of the Leipzig group of the Nazi student union . It was the first group of Nazi students in the Reich. The actual NS student union was only founded in 1926. In June 1926 participation in the first Nazi Party Congress of the NSDAP. Later he also joined the Nazi teachers' association . On April 1, 1934 appointment as a civil servant as a candidate at the Petri School in Leipzig. From June 16, 1934 director of studies at the Helmholtz School in Leipzig. In 1935 he became an expert at the main office for education of the NSDAP Reichsleitung. In Nazi files he was judged to be a “fanatical National Socialist”.

In 1933 Kummerlöwe undertook the first ornithological study trips to northern and western Turkey together with Niethammer. On December 11, 1935, he took over the management of the State Museum of Animal and Ethnology in Dresden , from the 1937 summer semester additionally head of the zoological institute at the Dresden University of Technology and, from August 14, 1940, first director of the scientific museums in Vienna . After the beginning of the Second World War , he conducted “anthropological surveys on Polish prisoners of war” for the Wehrmacht in the Kaisersteinbruch prisoner of war camp . At the specialist journal Der Biologe , which was taken over by the SS-Ahnenerbe in 1939 , he was the clerk for the scientific museums department .

Journal "Treatises and reports from the State Museums for Animal Science and Ethnology in Dresden" Volume 20 in the University and State Library in Halle. The article by Kummerlöwe (1939) was crossed out by strangers in the table of contents. Pages 1-14 were removed and page 15 pasted over. The next article begins on page 16.

His ideas about the, partly politically motivated, reorganization of the museums in Dresden and Vienna are expressed in two publications from 1939 and 1940. According to Eugeniusz Nowak, the publication from 1939 has been pasted over by strangers, if at all, in many libraries. This particularly applies to passages relating to Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP. It is believed that Kummerlöwe personally visited the libraries and edited books. The works in question were even absent from the libraries in Moscow and Leningrad .

After the Second World War, Kummerlöwe moved to Osnabrück and changed his name to Kumerloeve, supposedly for genealogical reasons. From May to October 1948, Kumerloeve Vogelwart was on Amrum . After the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany, he was not taken on as a civil servant, but he received a civil servant pension. Since 1964 he lived in Graefelfing . In 1970 he was appointed volunteer at the Museum Koenig in Bonn. In August 1995 he died at the age of 91 after three months of serious illness.

Research trips after 1945

After 1945 Kumerloeve worked as a private researcher. From 1949 Kumerloeve received generous financial support from the DFG . In 1987 the 84 year old received money from the DFG. It was funded 23 times by the DFG alone. He received travel grants 13 times. He traveled with it u. a. seven times to Turkey. Nowak wrote in 2010: Did the DFG have more money then than it does today? Or was this applicant more lucky than others? Today's scientists can only dream of such funding!

After 1945, Kumerloeve published numerous scientific works, in particular on the bird fauna of Turkey.

Publications

Hans Kummerlöwe / Kumerloeve wrote around 400 scientific works, some in Turkish together with Turkish colleagues. Some of his works are:

  • Comparative studies of the gonadal system of female birds . * Part IV: About two singing female canary birds and about a female blackbird with an unusually intense beak color . Journal for microscopic anatomical research 25, 1931, pp 311-319 (in addition to his dissertation).
  • The mammals (Mammalia) of Turkey . Zoological State Collection, Munich 1975.
  • Bibliography of the mammals and birds of Turkey (recent fauna) . Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn 1986. ISBN 3-925382-21-6

literature

  • CM Naumann : In memory of Hans Kumerloeve . In: Bonn zoological contributions 47, 1997, pp. 189–190 ( pdf ).
  • Eugeniusz Nowak: Scientists in turbulent times. Die neue Brehm-Bücherei Vol. 676, Westarp Sciences, Hohenwarsleben 2010, ISBN 978-3-89432-248-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Eugeniusz Nowak: Scientists in turbulent times. Memories of ornithologists, conservationists and other naturalists . (= Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Volume 676). Westarp, Hohenwarsleben 2010, ISBN 978-3-89432-248-9 , pp. 82-89.
  2. ↑ a b C. M. Naumann: In memory of Hans Kumerloeve . In: Bonn zoological contributions 47, 1997, pp. 189–190. pdf ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zfmk.de
  3. ↑ Hans Kummerlöwe: Comparative studies on the gonadal system of female birds. With special consideration of the persistence of right-sided germinal tissue elements in normal females. Part I: Columba livia domestica . In: Journal for microscopic anatomical research 21, 1930, pp. 1–156: Hans Kummerlöwe: Comparative studies on the gonadal system of female birds. With special consideration of the persistence of right-sided germinal tissue elements in normal females. Part II: Passer domesticus (L.) . In: Journal for microscopic-anatomical research 22, 1930, pp. 259-413; Hans Kummerlöwe: Comparative studies on the gonadal system of female birds. With special consideration of the persistence of right-sided germinal tissue elements in normal females. Part III: Selected examples from different bird orders . In: Journal for microscopic-anatomical research 24, 1931, pp. 455-631.
  4. ↑ a b Eugeniusz Nowak: Scientists in turbulent times. Westarp Sciences, Hohenwarsleben 2010, pp. 82–89.
  5. ^ A b Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 352
  6. ^ Hans Kummerlöwe: History and tasks of the State Museum of Animal Science in Dresden (speech on the reopening of the Museum of Animal Science in Dresden on October 4, 1937 in the new building at Ostra-Allee 15) . In: Treatises and reports from the State Museums for Animal Science and Ethnology in Dresden 20 (NF series A, Volume 1), 1939, pp. 1–15; Hans Kummerlöwe H (1940): On the redesign of the Vienna scientific state museums . In: Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna 50, 1940, pp. XXIV − XXXIX. pdf
personal data
SURNAME Sorrowful lion, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kumerloeve, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1995
Place of death Munich