Hellmuth Schindler

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Hellmuth Schindler (born January 8, 1912 in Vienna-Floridsdorf ; † November 22, 2009 ibid) was an Austrian botanist and plant physiologist .

Live and act

Hellmuth Schindler, son of the railway designer Wilhelm Schindler and his wife Gisela, née Loschek, attended the BRG Vienna XXI after 5 classes in elementary school . In his father's garden, he became enthusiastic about plants at an early age and thus acquired extensive knowledge of plants and practical experience in horticulture at an early age. From 1932 he studied botany and zoology as well as the teaching post for natural history and geography at the University of Vienna , where he was employed as a demonstrator in the summer semester of 1936 . In 1938 he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate , on October 1, 1938 he was taken on as a "third-class university assistant" at the Institute of Plant Physiology .

The academic career was interrupted on April 1, 1940 when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . In August 1941 Schindler was assigned to the Eastern Front, where he took part in the advance into southern Russia (Crimea) . Intended for the Africa Corps , he fell ill with dysentery in Saloniki , which necessitated a stay in a hospital and a temporary transfer to the reserve at home. There Schindler was able to do his habilitation in 1943 in addition to his military service and the activities for the institute. In 1944 Schindler was appointed lecturer and assigned to the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna. He was relocated to the Eastern Front again, where he was captured by the Soviets in the final phase of the war. There he survived two and a half years of forced labor as a miner underground in a coal mine in the Donets Basin and returned to Vienna on December 20, 1947 - with impaired health - from captivity.

After his return, Schindler was reappointed as a university assistant at the Plant Physiological Institute. In 1949 he was again granted the license to teach anatomy and physiology of plants, which had been suspended in 1945. In addition to teaching and research, he was in charge of the Augarten experimental garden . He also devoted his interest to horticultural practice, applied plant physiological topics such as the use of insecticides, the influence of artificial light or nematode control . He wrote numerous articles about it and thus continued the work of the Austrian plant physiologist Hans Molisch , which is so important for commercial horticulture . In 1954 he was head of department (laboratory director) at the higher federal teaching and research institute for horticulture Schönbrunn .

Schindler was appointed to the judges' office at the Vienna International Horticultural Show WIG 64 in the Danube Park. From 1964 to 1992 he was a committee member of the Zoological-Botanical Society .

In the winter semester of 1964/65 Schindler received a teaching position for general botany at the University of Vienna and was appointed associate professor for anatomy and physiology of plants. On June 1, 1972, he was appointed full university professor for "Anatomy and Physiology of Plants II". From 1974 he was head of the institute and pushed ahead with the renovation of the outdated test garden in the Augarten . He retired on September 30, 1982.

Schindler is buried in the Jedlesee cemetery in group 3, row 10, grave 1.

honors and awards

Schindler has received numerous honors and awards for his scientific life's work. The most important are

Publications

  • Type of killing and death pattern. Part 1: The alkali death of the plant cell. ; Part 2: The acid death of the plant cell. Diss. Univ. Vienna, 1938.
  • Protoplasmatod by heavy metal salts. I. Copper salts. Habilitation thesis Univ. Vienna, 1943.
  • With H. Wilflinger: potted plants. A cultivation guide for the most common greenhouse and indoor plants. Austrian Agrarverlag, Vienna 1967.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our sheet 1/2010 from March 2010, pp. 12-13. (PDF; 1.3 MB) (No longer available online.) Announcements from the Graduate Association of Higher Horticultural Institutes, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved October 19, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schoenbrunner-av.at
personal data
SURNAME Schindler, Hellmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian botanist and plant physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna-Floridsdorf
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 2009
Place of death Vienna