Hermann Friedrich (biologist)

Hermann Friedrich (born June 5, 1906 in Essen , † August 8, 1997 in Hildesheim ) was a German biologist and director of the Überseemuseum in Bremen .

biography

Friedrich studied natural sciences at the University of Bonn and received his doctorate there about insects. He then worked as an assistant at the Forestry University in the forest town of Tharandt and at the Zoological Institute of the German Marine Commission . In 1944 he became associate professor at the Institute for Oceanography at the University of Kiel . From 1950 he was director of the Institute for Marine Research in Bremerhaven . He developed the institute into a renowned research facility in Germany (integrated into the Alfred Wegener Institute in 1985 ). From 1962 to 1971 he was director of the Überseemuseum in Bremen . He expanded the natural science display collections here.

Fonts

• The natural sciences in Bremen for the past 150 years. In: Albrecht Faust (Ed.): Spiritual Bremen. Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1960, pp. 19–28.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .