Heinrich Schmitz (botanist)

Paul Heinrich Schmitz (born November 28, 1904 in Frankfurt am Main , † October 15, 1981 in Kiel ) was a German botanist .

Life

As the son of the director of a trade school Heinrich Schmitz and his wife Maria Fischer, he received his doctorate in Frankfurt / Main in 1929. From 1933 he taught as a lecturer in Freiburg im Breisgau . From November 1933 on he worked as an assistant and private lecturer at the Botanical Institute of Heidelberg University, where he also obtained his habilitation in 1933 .

In 1934 he joined the Schutzstaffel (SS) and became a standard trainer in the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS. In 1936, he was appointed to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg as an associate professor in the forest botany department . The Nazi Party , he joined the 1937th

In 1955 he took up a position in Hamburg as an adjunct professor in botany with a special focus on marine research.

From 1956 to 1959 he held the position of director of the Botanical Garden and Botanical Institute of Valdivia in Chile . He then returned to Germany and was offered a position at the State Institute for General Botany in Hamburg.

Since 1955 he married Barbara Klumpp, from which three children (Erhard, Roland and Almut) emerged.

literature

• Walter Habel: Who is who? Berlin 1970.
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt / Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
• WU Eckart, V. Sellin, E. Wolgast (eds.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism . Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-540-21442-9 .