Heinrich Tannert

Heinrich Tannert , until 1941 Heinrich Jedlitschka , (born July 7, 1893 in Groß-Olbersdorf (Velké Albrechtice), then Austrian Silesia ; † May 24, 1982 in Mölln ) was a Sudeten German biologist, teacher and school councilor as well as museum employee.

Life

Heinrich Tannert, born as Heinrich Jedlitschka during the Habsburg monarchy in the German-speaking Kuhländchen in the Austrian part of Silesia, as the grandson of a castle gardener, attended the school in Wagstadt from 1899 to 1908 and then the teacher training institute in Troppau , where he passed his school-leaving examination in 1912. In November 1914 he passed his second teaching examination. He then went to the First World War with the Austro-Hungarian Army, from which he retired as a lieutenant in 1918 after being seriously wounded several times. He first became a teacher at a German private school, passed his subject teacher examination for biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and pedagogy in 1919 and entered the school service of the young Czech Republic in 1920 , where he worked as a teacher at his old school until 1938. During this time he took courses at the universities in Prague and Brno and wrote his first writings, including geological and palaeontological content. He became a connoisseur of the foraminifera . After the German troops marched into the Sudetenland in 1938, Tannert was initially a provisional and on January 1, 1940, a definitive school councilor in the new Wagstadt district . As early as April 1940, he was a school councilor in the new district of Troppau, responsible for the reorganization of the secondary school system in the interests of the National Socialists . In 1941 he had his family name Germanized in Tannert . At the beginning of 1945 they were drafted into the Volkssturm and wounded again. Tannert was expropriated and expelled from liberated Czechoslovakia. He first came to the administrative district of Magdeburg and in October 1945 he was head of a small elementary school in the Altmark , but was released after three months at the instigation of the Soviet military government. After further stops, he came to his daughter in Lübeck and was initially employed there as an unskilled worker. On April 1, 1947, he became a secondary school teacher in Lübeck. Most recently, Tannert was rector of the Holstentor Middle School in Lübeck-St. Lorenz . He took up his scientific interests as a teacher and continued his publications. After retiring in 1957, he continued to develop biology classes at the newly created Carl-Jacob-Burckhardt-Gymnasium for two years before finally devoting himself to museum work at the Natural History Museum in Lübeck , where he worked until the retirement of the director Gotthilft von Studnitz in 1973. His tasks included looking after the herbarium , restoring a mineralogical-geological-palaeontological collection from the remains of the collection from the Museum am Dom , which was destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck in 1942, and organizing the exhibition of geological history.

Fonts (selection)

According to the obituary, Tannert's list of publications amounts to around 50 mostly scientific publications.

• Popular plant names, plant superstition and medicinal plants in the Wagbachtalkkreis (Silesia) in: Das Kuhländchen . Neutitschein 1928, here after Günter Bellmann: Slavoteutonica: Lexical investigations on Slavic-German language contact in East Central German , Walter de Gruyter 1971, p. 308 ( digitized version )
• The geological development of Silesia , Wagstadt (Bílovec) 1937
• Popular plant names in the Lübeck area , volume 3 (1961) of the reports of the association "Nature and Homeland" and the Natural History Museum in Lübeck , Lübeck 1961

literature

• Gotthilft von Studnitz : Heinrich Tannert (1893–1982) in: Reports of the Association “Nature and Homeland” and the Natural History Museum in Lübeck , Issue 17/18, Lübeck 1982, pp. 243–247