Heinz Stolp

Heinz Stolp (born August 15, 1921 in Silberborn ; † March 2, 2018 ) was a German microbiologist . He was a professor at the University of Bayreuth .

Stolp was born as the son of the teacher Emil Stolp and Elisabeth Wunsch and studied microbiology at the University of Göttingen from 1945 . After obtaining his doctorate as a Dr. rer. nat. 1951 at the Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry at the Institute for Bacteriology in Berlin-Dahlem, where he became chief director and professor. In 1970 he became a professor at the University of Hamburg and in 1975 in Bayreuth. Stays abroad took him to the Congo in 1969 and to the USA from 1962 to 1964.

In 1962 he discovered Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus , a bacterium that kills other gram-negative bacteria with great efficiency by moving towards them at great speed (100 body lengths per second), penetrating them through the bacterial cell wall (in which he drills a hole) multiplied there, the cell components broken down and the cell burst. They were discovered as parasites of Pseudomonas from soil samples, but other gram-negative bacteria are also its victims.

In 1968 he received the Robert Koch Prize and in 1969 the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Publications

• Heinz Stolp: Contributions to the question of the relationship between microorganisms and higher plants. Dissertation, University of Göttingen, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, August 28, 1951
• Mortimer P. Starr, Heinz Stolp, Hans G. Trüper, Albert Balows, Hans G. Schlegel (Eds.): The prokaryotes. A handbook on habitats, isolation and identification of bacteria. 2 volumes, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York 1981, ISBN 3-540-08871-7 , ISBN 0-387-08871-7
• Heinz Stolp: Microbial ecology. Organisms, habitats, activities. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [et al.] 1988, ISBN 0-521-25657-7 , ISBN 0-521-27636-5

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2014. 26th edition, Volume 4, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-030256-1 (print), ISBN 978-3-11-030257-8 (print & Online), p. 3648
• Who is who? The German who's who. 51st edition 2013–2014, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2013, ISBN 978-3-7950-2054-5 , p. 1112
• Who's who in Germany. 3rd edition, Intercontinental Book and Publishing Co. Ltd., New York, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1964, Volume 2, p. 1695; 5th edition, Who's Who-Book & Publishing GmbH, Ottobrunn 1974, ISBN 3-921220-05-10 , ISBN 3-921220-06-8 , Volume 2, p. 1677

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice. Burials Neumann, accessed March 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Personal card for teachers ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )