Heinrich Luebben

Heinrich Gerhard Lübben (born April 29, 1883 in Langenriep, Esenshamm municipality , Grand Duchy of Oldenburg ; † December 27, 1931 in Absen, Rodenkirchen municipality ) was a German teacher and zoologist , known as the founder and first director of today's zoo by the sea in Bremerhaven .

biography

family

Lübben was born as the son of Georg and Mathilde Lübben. His father, the househusband Georg Lübben (1854–1929), was the son of the housewife Heinrich Gerhard Lübben (1821–1877) and Friederike Gesine Harms (1824–1899). His mother, Mathilde Lübben (1856–1921), was the daughter of the househusband Heinrich Adolph Dirksen and Ahlke Margarethe Böger. The brother Karl Friedrich Lübben (1881–1957) became chief physician of the municipal hospital in Bremerhaven.

On July 4, 1911, Lübben married Bertha Wulff in Rodenkirchen. They had two sons: Burchard Heinrich Lübben, born in 1912, was promoted to Dr. jur. received his doctorate and in August 1944 was a judge-martial in Romania and was taken prisoner by Russia, from which he did not return until 1953. Later he was Senior Government Director at the Senator for Home Affairs . The second son, Melchior (* 1914), was appointed Dr. med. received his doctorate and died as a military doctor in 1942 at Lake Ilmen in north-western Russia .

education and profession

Lübben first received private tuition and then attended the Oberrealschule in Oldenburg, where he passed Michaelis ' matriculation examination in 1902 . He then studied natural sciences , first for four semesters in Marburg , where he became a member of the Marburg Burschenschaft Arminia , in the winter semester 1904/05 in Berlin and from the summer semester 1905 in Greifswald. From October 1, 1906 to October 1, 1907 he was an assistant at the Zoological Institute of the University of Greifswald and on March 12, 1907, he was there with a thesis on the metamorphosis of the internal organs of caddisflies Dr. phil. doctorate after he is already on 30 October 1906 Rigorosum had passed.

Also in Greifswald he passed the on June 18, 1908 teaching degree and acquired the teaching certificate for zoology and botany to Oberprima and physics to Untersekunda. With the supplementary examination on October 31, 1908, he also received the qualification to teach chemistry and mineralogy up to sub-secondary. In addition, he passed the gymnastics teacher examination before he began his seminar year on April 1, 1909 at the grammar school and secondary school in Flensburg . On April 1, 1910, he was senior teacher (later teacher ) at the Higher School for Girls in Bremerhaven (since 1913 Municipal Lyceum and Oberrealschule Study Institute). During the First World War he was deployed as a trooper on the Western Front and seriously wounded on the Somme in 1916.

plant

Lübben dealt with zoology, especially with the fauna of the sea . When the proposal came up to build a sea aquarium while building the beach hall in Bremerhaven, he was consulted as a specialist. He played a leading role in the planning of the aquarium, which opened on August 1, 1913 and was the second largest in Germany after Berlin at the time. As head of the municipal aquarium, he received no salary, but was released from eight hours of lessons a week. Even before he was called up for military service, he planned to expand it to include seals and sea ​​birds . The war and post-war period initially thwarted these plans. In 1921, the reserve and seal pools were finally completed. In 1927, according to Lübben's plans, the aquarium was expanded to include an open-air facility with mammals and birds from the coastal area. On June 24, 1928, the outdoor area, the so-called "animal grottoes", was opened to the public. Soon afterwards over 100,000 visitors were counted annually. After Lübben's sudden death in 1932, his former teacher colleague Otto Stocker took over the management.

In addition, Lübben dealt with local research, he made contributions to the history of Friesland and the Frisians as well as the history of the Lübben family. Under the pseudonym Garlich Frerking he wrote the historical novel Der Bruderkuss about the execution of his ancestors Dude and Gerald Lübben in 1419 in Bremen.

Publications

• Heinrich Lübben: About the inner metamorphosis of the trichoptera. Lippert & Co. (G. Pätz'sche Buchdr.), Naumburg a. S. 1907, at the same time: Dissertation, University of Greifswald, 1907, from: Zoological yearbooks. Department of Anatomy and Ontogeny of Animals. Volume 24, 1907, pp. 71-128
• Garlich Frerking: The brother kiss. A Frisian novel. Friesen-Verlag, Bremen-Wilhelmshaven 1922
• Heinrich Lübben: History of the Lübben family from Stadland and Butjadingen. Bremerhaven 1923

literature

• Rudolf Bonnet: The dead of the Marburg fraternity Arminia. Volume 3, self-published, Frankfurt am Main 1955, No. 127
• Friedrich Kleine: Lübben, Heinrich Gerhard. In: Wilhelm Lührs, Fritz Peters and Karl H. Schwebel (editor): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen 1969, pp. 325–326
• The man with qualities, Dr. Heinrich Luebben. In: 80 years Zoo am Meer Bremerhaven. Encounters of a special kind ... the Zoo by the Sea is celebrating its 80th birthday. Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 2008, pp. 7–8 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Heinrich Lübben's personnel sheet in the BIL's personnel file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
• Animal grottoes - how it all began. zoo-am-meer-bremerhaven.de
• Zoo by the sea. bremerhaven.de