Hans Schiemenz
Hans Schiemenz (born February 24, 1920 in Dresden ; † December 27, 1990 ) was a German zoologist and conservationist.
Life
Schiemenz came from the Saxon state capital Dresden. After attending school, he became an inspector on an estate for a short time before doing active military service during the Second World War. In 1942 he was seriously injured in the war, which led to his lifelong walking disability. During his long illness, he began to study biology on his own during the war, before taking up direct studies at the Technical University of Dresden in 1944 . When studies came to a standstill at the end of the war, Schiemenz worked as a porter. After studying forest science for two semesters , he was able to continue his biology studies in Dresden, which he successfully completed in 1950 with his diploma thesis on the investigation of the color change in bedbugs of the genus Palomena .
As early as 1948 he had been working as a scientific assistant at the Zoological Institute of the Technical University of Dresden, in 1953 he took over the management of the entomological department at the Zoological Museum of the Humboldt University in Berlin . Here he did his doctorate. The habilitation followed later.
In 1959 Schiemenz went back to Dresden, where he worked as head of the branch of the Institute for Landscape Research and Nature Conservation until he reached retirement age in 1985.
Act
During his management activity in Berlin, he published his first publication on The Dragonflies of Our Homeland , which was to be followed by numerous others.
Together with Werner Hempel , he developed a scientific documentation of the nature reserves of Saxony .
As a conservationist he was active in various specialist committees.
After his death in 1994 in Rangsdorf , Natur + Text published the distribution atlas of amphibians and reptiles in East Germany (area of the former GDR) , which he had developed together with Rainer Günther.
literature
- R. Steffens: Dr. habil. Schiemenz in memory . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 37, 1991, No. 2, p. 127.
- Fritz Jürgen Obst : Hans Schiemenz (1920–1990) . Printed in: Gerhard Hallmann, Wolfgang Bischoff: The history of herpetology and terrarium science in German-speaking countries. Werner Rieck, German Society for Herpetology and Terrarium Science , 2001, ISBN 3-9806577-3-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Hempel, Hans Schiemenz: The nature reserves of the districts Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Stadt and Dresden (= manual of the nature reserves of the German Democratic Republic, volume 5). 2nd edition, Urania-Verlag, Leipzig, Jena, Berlin 1986
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schiemenz, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German zoologist and conservationist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1990 |