Hanskarl Englert

Hanskarl Englert (born December 14, 1913 in Rastatt ; † May 22, 1995 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German veterinarian and animal hygienist.

Life

Hanskarl Englert was born in Buchen (Odenwald) as the son of Karl-Joseph Englert. In the summer semester of 1932 he began studying veterinary medicine at the University of Munich and became a member of the Corps Suevo-Salingia Munich . In the summer semester of 1934 he continued his studies at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover and joined the Corps Normannia Hanover . In the winter semester of 1934/35 he moved to the University of Berlin . In 1936 he received his veterinary license in Munich and was promoted to Dr. med. vet. PhD. In 1938 he became an assistant at the Animal Hygiene Institute at the University of Freiburg . After the outbreak of war, he passed the civil servant examination in Freiburg in 1941.

During the Second World War he took part as senior staff veterinarian of the reserve and regimental veterinarian of Grenadier Regiment 353 of the 205th Infantry Division . From May 1945 to the end of November 1949 he was a Soviet prisoner of war.

In January he returned to the Animal Hygiene Institute in Freiburg, became senior assistant and government veterinarian and, after initially working in the milk and tuberculosis department, head of pathology and deputy head of the institute. He worked scientifically on health problems in pig breeding and keeping. In May 1956 he completed his habilitation at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Giessen to become a Dr. med vet. habil. Initially a private lecturer, he was appointed adjunct professor for pathological anatomy and pathological histology in the veterinary medicine faculty of the University of Giessen in 1962. In the same year he was promoted to government director and appointed head of the Animal Hygiene Institute in Freiburg. In 1966 he became an adjunct professor at the University of Freiburg , where he read about hygiene and zoonoses . In 1978 Englert retired. From 1963 until his retirement he was the shop steward for laboratory animals at Freiburg University.

Englert has written over 70 scientific publications in the field of cat, pig and wild animal diseases. He was the first to develop a vaccine against cat disease .

Awards

Civil:

• Federal Cross of Merit, 1982
• Nieberle Medal of the Association of Veterinarians Baden-Württemberg

Military:

• Iron Cross
• War Merit Cross 1st and 2nd class with swords
• East Medal
• Kurland cuff

Fonts

• About the inheritance of hair colors in dogs , 1938 (= Volume 9 of the magazine for dog research), Schöps, 1938
• Pig leukosis , 1955
• The significance of nutritional diseases in pigs based on our own research , 1956
• Rabbit diseases and rabbit diseases . In: Handlexikon der Veterärztlichen Praxis. Diagnostics and Therapy , 1966, p. 427h-431 (Editor: Kjeld Wamberg)
• Game diseases and game exploitation . In: Wild und Hund , 76th year, 1973/1974, pp. 271–272
• What you experience until you are an old hunter .... Hunting from the Black Forest to the Upper Rhine Plain , 1985

literature

• Fritz Riggert, Otto Gervesmann: History of the Corps Normannia Hannover, 1859, March 15, 1959, 1959, p. 188.

Web links

• 100 years of the Animal Hygiene Institute Freiburg on www.ua-bw.de
• Collection of newspaper clippings on the personal history of "Englert, Hanskarl, Prof."  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Englert, Hanskarl on www.leo-bw.de
2. ↑ Personnel and course directory of the University of Gießen, winter semester 1966/67, p. 20 ( digitized version )
3. ^ Englert, Hans Karl . In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1996. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists . 17th edition, Volume Medicine-Natural Sciences-Technology , p. 287.
4. ^ Freiburg im Breisgau: Prof. Dr. Hans Karl Englert receives the Federal Cross of Merit (with a picture of the handover)  in the German Digital Library from District President Norbert Nothhelfer