Heinz Brücher

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Heinz Brücher (born January 14, 1915 in Darmstadt , † December 17, 1991 on his farm in the Mendoza district in Argentina ) was a German botanist and geneticist. He had been a member of the NSDAP since 1934 ( membership number 3,498,152) and an important SS functionary during the National Socialist era as a member of the German Ahnenerbe Research Association and as the head of an "SS collective command" .

Life

As a teenager, Heinz Brücher attended primary school in Erbach (Odenwald) and then secondary school in Michelstadt . As a schoolboy he had a strong interest in natural sciences, so that in the summer semester of 1933 he enrolled at the University of Jena to study natural sciences, particularly botany , zoology , heredity and anthropology . There he was a member of the SA University Office and joined the German Academic Guild . In 1935 he moved to the University of Tübingen , where he continued the work he had begun in Jena on "the problem of reciprocally different species and racial bastards in Epilobium ( willowherb )" . In 1938 he received his doctorate and initially worked at the Institute for Human Hereditary Research and Racial Policy at the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena under Karl Astel . In 1940 he completed his habilitation. He then worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research in Müncheberg near Berlin.

In 1943, Brücher was recruited by Heinrich Himmler to his personal staff, in 1944 appointed SS-Untersturmführer and, on Himmler's orders, appointed head of the newly established Ahnenerbe Institute for Plant Genetics , SS-Versuchsgut in Lannach near Graz. In 1945 he was awarded the War Merit Cross, Second Class with Swords , by Himmler .

After the Second World War, Brücher emigrated to Argentina via Sweden, where he was appointed professor of genetics and botany at the University of Tucumán in 1948 . He later worked as a lecturer in Mendoza and Buenos Aires (Argentina), in Asunción ( Paraguay ) and in 1965 in Caracas ( Venezuela ). Later he was director of a development project for tropical seed cultivation in Trinidad as well as a UNESCO consultant for biology.

He was married to a Swedish woman from Gothenburg, Ollie Berglund.

On December 17, 1991, he was murdered on his Condorhuasi farm in the Mendoza district. Brücher had campaigned strongly against coca cultivation there.

Act

Authorized by Heinrich Himmler as the leader of an SS collective command, Brücher undertook various collective trips to the occupied territories of Eastern Europe from June 1943. His mission was to secure genetic material from ex situ obtained plants in Ukraine and the Crimea . Also in 1943, Brücher stated that the conquest of the "Eastern Territories" had given Germany geographical control over areas of great botanical and plant breeding importance, important for the present and future securing of food supplies for the German population. In various campaigns, Brücher secured the coveted material for his clients by capturing the scientific records and seed samples from the connected plant seed banks from the Russian breeding stations set up by Nikolai Iwanowitsch Wawilow .

Fonts

  • Ernst Haeckel's blood and spiritual heritage. A cultural biological monograph. JF Lehmanns , Munich 1936.
  • On the influence of the genome on the reciprocal differences in crossbreeding of Epilobium hirsutum. Diss. (Kt.) , 1938.

literature

  • Wolfgang Kaufmann: The Third Reich and Tibet . The home of the "Eastern Swastika" in the field of vision of the National Socialists. Ludwigsfelder Verlagshaus 2009, ISBN 978-3-933022-58-5 (esp. Pp. 273–302 and 724–735)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 452  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-jena.de
  2. ^ Susanne Heim, History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism , Wallstein Verlag 2002, ISBN 9783892444961 , p. 125


personal data
SURNAME Brücher, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1991
Place of death Mendoza district in Argentina