Hans Soeding

Hans Heinrich Söding (born June 1, 1898 in Papenburg an der Ems , † September 4, 2001 in Ascheberg ) was a German botanist and university professor .

Life

Family and education

Hans Söding, the son of Heinrich Söding and his wife Margarete née Veen, graduated from high school in 1917 at the humanistic state Kurfürst-Salentin-Gymnasium in Andernach . After dropping out of law studies, he turned to studying natural sciences with a focus on botany with Hans Fitting at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , in 1918 he switched to Wilhelm Ruhland at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , two Years later to Alfred Voigt at the University of Hamburg , where his took place in 1923Doctorate to Dr. rer. nat. Since 1919 he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Cheruskia Tübingen .

Hans Söding, a member of the Roman Catholic religious community , married Bertha, born Link in 1929. There were four children from the marriage. Hans Söding died in September 2001 at the biblical age of 103 in Ascheberg, Westphalia.

Professional background

After completing his studies, Hans Söding was employed as an assistant at the Botanical Garden of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , in 1927 he accepted the offer to work at the Botanical Garden of the Technical University of Dresden , and in 1928 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in botany in Dresden In the same year he was appointed senior assistant at the Botanical Institute there, and in 1934 he was promoted to associate professor of botany. In 1941 he moved to the Westphalian Wilhelms University as an adjunct professor. In 1947 he accepted the call to an extraordinary professorship for botany at the State Institute for General Botany at the University of Hamburg. Hans Söding, one of the pioneers of growth substance research , who was appointed to the Scientific Council there , retired in 1963 .

Publications

• Knowing the growth hormones in the oat coleoptile. In: Yearbooks for Scientific Botany, Volume 64, Verlag von Gebrueder Borntraeger, Berlin 1925, pp. 587–603.
• With Hildegard Funke: growth of plants. In: Concise Dictionary of Natural Sciences, Volume 10, G. Fischer, 1935
• Variations in the sensitivity of the oat test and their relationship to weather factors. In: Year books for scientific botany, Volume 90, Verlag von Gebrueder Borntraeger, Berlin 1941, pp. 1-24.
• The Growth Substance Doctrine; Results and problems of growth material research, G. Thieme, Stuttgart 1952, in Russian, 1955
• With Edith Raadts: Chromatographic investigations on the growth substances of the oat coleoptile. In: Planta, Volume 49, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1957, pp. 47-60.

literature

• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? Das deutsche Who's Who, Volume 16 ,, Arani, Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 1249.
• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 3, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007434-6 , p. 3727.
• Soeding, Hans. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 915.

Web links

• Image by Hans Söding on the website of the Technical University of Dresden