Hermann August Eidmann

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Hermann August Eidmann (* 21st February 1897 in elections in Alsfeld , † 4. September 1949 in Mittenwald , Upper Bavaria) was a German zoologist and in the first half of the 20th century one of the leading experts in entomology (Entomology).

life and work

Eidmann studied forest science at the University of Gießen, where he joined the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia student union .

His life's work was zoology - especially the fauna in the forest community. Science and forestry practice owe him groundbreaking work on animal science, ants and forest pests. His expeditions took him to China , North America , Brazil and Africa in the 1920s and 1930s . Erdmann was primarily concerned with the abundance of life forms in the tropical rainforests. His research in this area made him one of the pioneers of young tropical forest science.

After receiving his doctorate in 1922, he first worked as an assistant at the Zoological Institute at the University of Munich and in 1925 as an assistant to Karl Escherich at the Institute for Applied Zoology. In the mid-1920s, Eidmann was a private lecturer at the Zoological Institute when Karl von Frisch, who later won the Nobel Prize , held the chair there. From 1929 until his death, Eidmann was head of the zoological institute at the Forestry University in Hannoversch-Münden and director of the local institute for forestry zoology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . From 1941 to 1945 Eidmann was head of the specialist division 28 “Colonial Zoology” in the Colonial Science Department of the Reich Research Council and thus an expert for the entire field of zoology of the tropics and subtropics. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

His textbook on entomology from 1941 was the standard work in Germany for over three decades. In addition, Eidmann published many fundamental articles and studies on forest entomology and ecology with a focus on insects. His last project dealt with an ecological study of the ant species in Tibet and the neighboring areas.

His well-known students and assistants include Fritz Schwerdtfeger , Gustav Wellenstein and Jean Pierre Vité .

Fonts

  • The history of the development of human teeth with consideration of the vertebrate dentition , dissertation, Berlin 1923
  • Studies on the growth and molting of insects , habilitation thesis (in print in Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere , Volume 2, Berlin 1924)
  • Signs of old age on the teeth of the red deer as the basis for exact determination of age ; Hanover 1933
  • Aircraft pollination of forest pests and their organization in the light of modern experience and research , special edition of the Zeitschrift für Forst- und Jagdwesen (year 1933, issue 1/2), Berlin 1933
  • The Forleule in Prussia in 1933. Scientific investigations by the Zoological Institute of the Forestry University in Hann.-Münden on the occasion of the mass reproduction of the Forleule Panolis flammea Schiff. in Prussia in 1933 , Hanover in 1934
  • Investigations on the teeth of the red deer and the other native cervids , Hanover 1939
  • Textbook of Entomology , Berlin, Verlag Parey, 1941 (2nd edition, revised by Friedrich Kühlhorn, 1970)
  • The tropical rainforest as a habitat. 2. Contribution to the scientific results of H. Eidmann's research trip to Spanish Guinea 1939/40 , In: Kolonialforstliche Mitteilungen (Issue 2/3 1942), Neudamm u. a. 1942

literature

  • Zoltán Rozsnyay, Frank Kropp: Hermann August Eidmann . In this: Lower Saxony Forest Biography. A source volume. (= Aus dem Walde (1998): Messages from the Lower Saxony State Forest Administration; Issue 51). Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests (MELF), Wolfenbüttel 1998, pp. 157–161 (short biography with detailed bibliography)
  • Fritz Schwerdtfeger:  Eidmann, Hermann August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 388 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Günter Wolff: Obituary for Hermann A. Eidmann . In: Passat , issue 2, 1st year (1950)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 118.
  2. ↑ Colonial Studies Department of the Reich Research Council (Ed.): Tasks of German Colonial Research . Stuttgart and Berlin, 1942
personal data
SURNAME Eidmann, Hermann August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eidmann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Elections at Alsfeld
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1949
Place of death Mittenwald