Hermann Reimers

Hermann Reimers (born June 17, 1893 in Uetersen , † May 18, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German author and botanist .

Life

He was the son of the elementary school teacher Hermann Reimers from Mühlenstrasse 12 in Uetersen and had three other siblings. At the end of his school days his father began to deal with botany, especially mosses , which also fascinated his son. Reimers later lived in Uetersener Parkstrasse and visited the Christianeum in the Hamburg district of Altona , where he also passed his Abitur . He then studied at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg until 1915 and at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel until 1917 . In the same year he was called up for military service, but was able to take the examination for a higher teaching degree in the subjects of physics, chemistry and biology while on vacation.

Act

After the end of the First World War , he took a position at the "German Research Institute for Textiles" in Karlsruhe and became head of the biological department. During this time Reimers published a number of papers on bast fibers . Based on these publications, he received his doctorate in Hamburg in 1922 . Ludwig Diels then appointed Reimers as an assistant at the Botanical Museum, where he became senior assistant in 1933 and curator for the Moosherbar in 1948 . Reimers retired in 1958; he still came to the museum every day until an illness prevented him from doing so.

His research trips took him to the Mark Brandenburg region , the southern Harz region and, occasionally, to other areas of Germany. Reimers' longest journey was to Cameroon in 1928 . The collections of plants and mosses from Cameroon survived the Second World War, but the corresponding field book with all information on the location was destroyed in the fire of the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem , so that this collection was largely worthless.

The scope of his publications ranges from the vegetation of the Lithuanian raised bogs to South American gentian plants (Gentianaceae) to Carex reichbachi and the technical use of bast fibers. In more than half of his publications, however, he dealt with mosses.

Works

• About the internal structure of the bast fibers (Berlin 1922)
• The vegetation of the Rhon bogs (1924)
• About the occurrence of the North American-East Asian deciduous moss (1925)
• Contribution to the bryophyte flora of southern America I and II (1926)
• About the thermotaxis of lower organisms Borntraeger (Leipzig 1927)
• Vegetation studies on Lithuanian and East Prussian raised bogs Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Munich 1929)
• Contribution to the moss flora of Korea (1930)

literature

• Jens Eggers and Jan P Frahm: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists. Books on Demand 2001, pp. 399-403.