Hans Stadler (ornithologist)

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Hans Stadler (born April 11, 1875 in Rain am Lech ; † August 22, 1962 in Würzburg ) was a German doctor and volunteer ornithologist .

Life

Stadler attended grammar school in Regensburg and studied medicine in Erlangen and Würzburg, receiving his doctorate in medicine in 1898. In 1902 he settled as a doctor in Lohr am Main . His hobby was ornithology, especially birdsong . With his perfect pitch he and Cornel Schmitt were able to record bird calls in the music for the first time. Before 1914 he was also a pioneer in field phonographing of bird calls, i.e. recordings. He was also interested in algae , insects and spiders . He was particularly committed to the Aschaffenburg Natural History Museum and the Aschaffenburg Natural Science Association. Since 1907 he belonged to the Ornithological Society in Bavaria, which later made him an honorary member, and the Bund Naturschutz . At the 1st German Nature Conservation Day from July 26 to 28, 1925, old oaks were the subject of an application by Stadler. The aim was to put 500 hectares of old oak forests in the Spessart (Heisterblock in Rothenbuch ), Steigerwald and Gramschatzer Forest under nature protection. He spoke against the economically argued forest professor Fabricius , but had the support of the botanist Hermann Dingler , who called for a primeval forest reserve. There are around a hundred contributions from Stadler to avifauna in Bavaria. He was committed to the wooded nature reserve Romberg (since 1942) in the Main-Spessart district , which was threatened with settlement. He found his final resting place in Sendelbach near the NSG, which had belonged to him since the purchase in 1902 around what is now known as the Stadlersee (an oxbow lake and biotope of the rare primeval gill-pods , the location of which Stadler published in 1924). Today it belongs to the Bund Naturschutz .

Stadler joined the NSDAP in 1922, so he was an old fighter . From 1932 to 1935 at the latest he was the local group leader of the NSDAP. According to the Reich Nature Conservation Act of 1935, he became an honorary nature conservation officer in the Main Franconia district and later the district government. He raised many areas to nature reserves, including the Romberg. He worked with the Reichslandschaftanwalt Alwin Seifert . He claimed that "wood Jews" endangered the oak stock by overexploitation. He also attacked the Reich Labor Service and the peasantry for destroying nature through excessive cultivation. Because of the essential war supplies, these attacks fizzled out with his old sponsor, the Gauleiter Otto Hellmuth . In 1945 Stadler was imprisoned and his property on Romberg was confiscated. But he got it back and in the 1950s maintained contacts with old party comrades such as Hans Klose , the head of the Central Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management . Stadler was a member of the Federal Nature Conservation Committee in Bavaria until 1962 .

The city council rejected the creation of a nature trail in the NSG as a "Stadlerpfad" in 2020 for financial reasons. This past of the natural scientist only became known again through a contribution by Philipp Steinheim in 1992/93 for the Federal President's history competition and led to his study being removed from the exhibition in the Spessart Museum.

Fonts

  • Questions and tasks in avian language studies , 1917 online
  • with Cornel Schmitt : The bird language: a guide to their recognition and research, Stuttgart 1919
  • The parallels of the bird calls , in: Der Ornithologische Beobachter, January 1923 online, pdf
  • Bird dialect . Alauda 2, Paris 1930, Suppl .: pp. 1-66
  • The Voices of the Alpine Birds , 1931 online

Web links

  • Lexicon bavarikon
  • Richard Hölzl (2005): Nature Conservation in Bavaria from 1905-1945: the State Committee for Nature Conservation and the Federation of Nature Conservation between private and state initiative online

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Joachim Neumann: A certain Cornel Schmitt, in: Institute for Environmental History and Regional Development eV at the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg (ed.): STUDIENARCHIVUMWELTGESCHICHTE No. 10, 2005, p. 16 online
  2. ↑ Author notices / news. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Michael Succow, Hans Dieter Knapp, Lebrecht Jeschke: Nature conservation in Germany: retrospectives - insights - outlooks . Ch. Links Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86153-686-4 ( google.de [accessed on April 26, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Hubert Weiger : Beech and oak in the NSG Metzgergraben [ https://www.baysf.de/fileadmin/user_upload/01-ueber_uns/05-standorte/FB_Rothenbuch/NSG_Metzgergraben.pdf online]
  5. ↑ Nature reserves - Spessart Nature Park. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
  6. ↑ H. Stadler (1924): Some about the animal world of Lower Franconia II. - Archives Natural History. 90 A (1): 169-20
  7. ↑ Biotopes of the OG Lohr. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Stadlerpfad: City council only discussed costs, not the Nazi past. February 7, 2019, accessed April 26, 2020 .
  9. ^ Frank Uekötter : Green Nazis? Reassessing the Environmental History of Nazi Germany. (PDF) In: Contemporary historical research. 2007, accessed on April 26, 2020 .
  10. ^ Frank Uekötter: The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany . Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-61277-7 ( google.de [accessed April 26, 2020]).
  11. ↑ See the historical work: BUND works on history, 2008 Here Stadtler is given the wrong first name Max.
  12. ^ Richard Hölzl, Nature Conservation in Bavaria Between State and Civil Society. From the liberal awakening to integration into the Nazi regime, 1913 to 1945 , in: Bund Naturschutzforschung 11/2013 (100 years Bund Naturschutz), pp. 21–63 (here p. 46).
personal data
SURNAME Stadler, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Rain on the Lech
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1962
Place of death Wurzburg