Heinrich Kemper (zoologist)

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Heinrich Kemper (born February 24, 1902 in Füchtorf ; † November 2, 1969 in Berlin-Wannsee ) was a German zoologist.

Life

Heinrich Kemper was born in Füchtorf near Warendorf as the son of the main teacher Bernhard Kemper and his wife Anna (née Olthoff). His specialty was hygienic entomology .

He spent the first few years in Esch, then in the Tecklenburg district , went to the municipal rectorate school in Ibbenbüren for five years and to the grammar school in Rheine for four years . There he graduated from high school in 1921. Then he began studying natural sciences and mathematics at the University of Münster . As a student trainee, he worked in the mine and at a bank. In 1925 he did his doctorate with a dissertation on the tracheal system of a butterfly mosquito with the technically controversial Heinrich Jacob Feuerborn and was then commissioned with the administration of a scheduled assistant position at the local zoological institute. A good year later, Prof. Dr. Julius Wilhelmi , one of the sharp critics of Feuerborn's theories, to the then Prussian State Institute for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene in Berlin-Dahlem . Most recently he was head of the biological department there. From 1949 he was honorary professor for applied zoology at the Free University of Berlin . The German Society for Applied Entomology awarded him the Karl Escherich Medal in 1965 in recognition of his activities.

He also taught pest controllers and campaigned for recognition as a training profession .

In particular, he devoted himself to the bed bug ( Cimex lectularius ), which he carefully examined in many ways. In 1948 in Berlin he arranged for a statistical survey of the bedbug infestation in every fifth apartment, followed by municipal control until the infestation was eliminated throughout the city.

Other research subjects were louse flies , house crickets , pigeon ticks , wasps , beetles and moths , which are harmful to stores and textiles , rodents, as well as the stings and stings of arthropods on humans.

Later his interest expanded to the (cultural) historical development of pest control.

Heinrich Kemper died in Berlin in 1969 at the age of 67. His grave is in the Zehlendorf cemetery .

Books

He has authored 10 books and 169 scientific articles on pest science and pest control of animals that are harmful to health and stored products. He was also the editor of several scientific zoological journals.

  • The house and health pests and their control: a textbook and reference book for the pest controller. 2nd edition 1950, published by Duncker & Humblot. 344 pages.
  • Brief history of animal pests, pest science and pest control. Duncker & Humblot Verlag 1968. 381 pages.

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  1. ↑ a b Heinrich Kempe in German Biography (accessed on November 6, 2018)
  2. ↑ a b c Heinrich Kemper: Morphogenetic investigation of the tracheal system of Psychoda phalaenoides (Diptera): with 8 figures. Regensbergsche Buchdruckerei, Münster i. W. 1925
  3. ↑ Ute Deichmann: Biologists under Hitler. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1996. ISBN 0-674-07405-X . Pages 72-74.
  4. ↑ a b Döhring, Edith: In memoriam Professor Dr. Heinrich Kemper. Journal of Applied Entomology, 65 (1-4), 102-103. 1970. doi: 10.1111 / j.1439-0418.1970.tb03943.x
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 675.
personal data
SURNAME Kemper, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Füchtorf
DATE OF DEATH 2nd November 1969
Place of death Berlin-Wannsee