Hans Wagner (entomologist)

Hans Wagner , actually Karl Hans Wagner , (born May 6, 1884 in Vienna , † April 10, 1949 in Berlin ) was an Austrian entomologist and specialist in certain groups of weevils .

Life

Hans Wagner was born in Vienna on May 6, 1884 . There he attended elementary school , lower secondary school and finally a preparatory course for the Academy of Fine Arts . He worked at the Natural History Museum for two years .

From February 1, 1906, he worked as an assistant to Max Standfuß at the Entomological Museum of the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich , and until 1908 as a private lecturer with Arnold Lang at the Zoological Institute of the University of Zurich.

From April 1, 1911 to June 20, 1921 he was assistant to the curator Sigmund Schenkling at the German Entomological Institute in Berlin . As part of his work there, he designed the logo of the German Entomological Institute with others.

In the time after that he ran a specialty entomological shop. This existed until 1936, when large parts of his private and business collection were lost during a lengthy stay in hospital due to the weather.

From 1926 to 1932 he published the " Coleopterologische Centralblatt ", of which 6 volumes appeared.

From 1938 worked on the provincial office for nature conservation under Hans Hedicke . During this time he examined the beetle fauna of the Mark Brandenburg . The beetles he collected were included in the collection of the nature conservation agency, which was destroyed in 1945, and in the collection of his friend Julius Neresheimer , which is now owned by the German Entomological Institute. After the war, he started to rebuild the collection of the nature reserve.

He died on April 10, 1949 after a serious illness.

Scientific achievements

Hans Wagner was one of the best experts on the German beetle fauna. He was an excellent collector and taxidermist. The fauna of Brandenburg in particular was enriched by many rare species.

His specialties were the Apionidae , the species of which were still counted without exception to the genus Apion. Later he dealt with the Ceutorhynchinae , a subfamily of the weevils . In these groups, he not only described numerous new species, but also arranged their taxonomy according to phylogenetic considerations, i.e. according to their presumed relationships. During this work he created numerous new genres that are still in use today.

During the war and after the war he continued to work despite the adverse circumstances and despite a serious illness. His treatises on the Ceutorhynchinae appeared in the Entomological Papers from 1936 to 1944 .

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• Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga, Héctor Barrios, Roman Borovec, Patrice Bouchard, Roberto Caldara et al .: Cooperative Catalog of palaearctic coleoptera Curculionoidea. In: Monografias electronicas SEA. Volume 8, Zaragoza 2017 (including a bibliography with numerous scientific works by Wagner).
• Hans Sachtleben: Entomological Chronicle. In: Contributions to Entomology. Volume 1, No. 1, 1951, pp. 102-104 (here a more or less detailed biography) ( digitized version ).
• Holger H. Dathe: Chronological table for the history of the German Entomological Institute 1886-2006. In: Contributions to Entomology. Volume 56, No. 1, 2006, pp. 5-22 ( digitized version ).
• Dr. Ing.Hans Wagner on ZOBODAT .
• Dr. Julius Neresheimer on ZOBODAT .