Hinrich Rahmann

Hinrich Rahmann (2010)

Hinrich Rahmann (born November 28, 1935 in Bentheim ) is a German zoologist and neurobiologist .

Life

Hinrich Rahmann studied natural sciences from 1956 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , where he completed his studies with a dissertation in 1960. After a stay in 1966 as an associate professor in the USA, he completed his habilitation in zoology in Münster . There he became a lecturer in 1969 and H3 professor in 1973 and head of the Department of Neurobiology at the Zoological Institute. In the same year he was appointed to the chair of zoology at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart. In 1980 he turned down a call to the chair for zoophysiology in Hamburg. From 1975 until his retirement in 2001 he was managing director of the Zoological Institute in Hohenheim. In 1977 and 1992 he held research professorships in Japan.

Services

Rahmann's research activities are in the fields of neurobiology, especially neurochemistry , experimental behavior and memory research, limnology (ecology of surface waters) and nature, animal and species protection. In addition to his works in book form, he wrote over 300 specialist articles in scientific journals. In particular, he investigated the importance of gangliosides (glycolipids) in the transmission of excitation in the nervous system and that of gravity for the development and orientation of animals in space .

Joint research with his wife Mathilde

Hinrich and Mathilde Rahmann (2006)

The Nebra Sky Disc

Rahmann worked with his wife Mathilde Rahmann (born March 27, 1939 in Hohenlimburg ), a doctor of zoology, on many occasions, for example the establishment and operation of a marine biological teaching and research station at the University of Münster near Carolinensiel in East Friesland . In September 1982 they prepared an expert opinion to evaluate the effects of planned dyke construction measures on fauna and flora in Iheringsgroden between Neuharlingersiel and Harlesiel for the Esens-Harlingerland dyke, the recommendations of which were largely followed by the decision-makers when building a new dike.

The two researchers worked closely together in other research areas as well, as demonstrated by joint publications.

After Rahmann's retirement, further joint research activities were carried out both in the natural sciences and in the humanities, for example a proposal in 2005 to decipher the so-called Nebra sky disk or to interpret prehistoric road networks.

Interdisciplinarity

Not only in his research, but also in his epistemological work " I will be lived! - From the determination of all being ", published eight years after his retirement, Hinrich Rahmann especially processes research results from various humanities and natural sciences such as philosophy, religious philosophy , cosmology from evolutionary and neurobiology , to justify his statements on the determination of humans in the case of negation of free will , but at the same time obligation to responsibility (based on conditioning and learning). In doing so, he presents four different pathways for the future socio-cultural evolution of mankind for discussion.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hinrich Rahmann: Brain gangliosides and memory formation. In: Natural Sciences. 81, 1994, pp. 7-20.
2. ↑ Hinrich Rahmann (Ed.): Gangliosides and modulation of neuronal functions, NATO ASI SERIES H: Cell Biology 7. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1987.
3. ↑ Hinrich Rahmann, Ralf Anken: Importance of gravity for the development and orientation of animals. In: Hinrich Rahmann, Karl A. Kirsch (Ed.): Human - Life - Gravity - Cosmos. Perspectives of life science space research in Germany. Report from a closed conference from October 20th to 22nd, 2000 in Stuttgart - Hohenheim / Birkach. Verlag Günter Heimbach, 2001, pp. 170–191.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Hinrich Rahmann: I am lived! From the determination of all being. Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8322-8022-2 .
5. ↑ Hinrich Rahmann, Mathilde Rahmann: The memory. Neurobiological basics . JF Bergmann Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-8070-0368-1 . (also: Springer Verlag, New York / Berlin / Heidelberg 1988, ISBN 0-387-00368-1 )
6. ↑ Hinrich Rahmann, Mathilde Rahmann: The emergence of the living. From the big bang to the cell. 2., ext. Edition. Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart et al. 1980, ISBN 3-437-20222-7 .
7. ↑ Hinrich Rahmann, Mathilde Rahmann: Neurobiology . Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-8001-2441-6 .
8. ^ Mathilde Rahmann, Hinrich Rahmann: Deciphering the Nebra Sky Disc? In: PR Sahm, H. Rahmann, HJ Blome, G. Thiele (eds.): Homo spaciens. Man in the cosmos. An interdisciplinary outlook on the origin and future of humans in space. discorsi-Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-9807330-8-4 , pp. 99-118.
9. ^ Mathilde Rahmann: Hünenpforte and Weißenstein near Hagen-Hohenlimburg in the center of a prehistoric network of paths? In: Hinrich Rahmann (Hrsg.): The natural science association Hagen: On the trail of nature. Hagen 2011, pp. 72-95.

Other works (selection)

• Hinrich Rahmann with the assistance of Mathilde Rahmann: The emergence of the living. From atomic gas to cell . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-437-20100-X .
• Hinrich Rahmann with the assistance of Mathilde Rahmann: Neurobiology . (= Uni-Taschenbücher. 557). Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-8001-2441-6 .
• Hinrich Rahmann, Mathilde Rahmann: The memory . Neurobiological basics. Bergmann Verlag et al., Munich 1988, ISBN 3-8070-0368-1 .
• H. Rahmann, M. Rahmann, J. Hildebrand, J. Storm: Rabenvögel . Ecology and harmful effects of the jay , magpie and carrion crow . Josef Margraf Verlag, Weikersheim 1988.
• Jürgen Böhmer, Hinrich Rahmann: Bioindication method for water acidification. (= Publications project "Applied Ecology". Volume 3). Published by the State Institute for Environmental Protection Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe 1992.
• Jürgen Böhmer, Hinrich Rahmann: Faunistic aspects of succession, recultivation and nature conservation in quarries in southwest Germany. In: P. Poschlod, U. Tränkle, J. Böhmer, H. Rahmann: Quarries and nature conservation - succession and renaturation. Ecomed-Verlag, Landsberg 1997.
• Hinrich Rahmann: The evolution of the living: From the unicellular to the thinking being. In: PR Sahm, H.-J. Blome, H; Rahmann, G. Thiele (Ed.): Homo spaciens - The human being in the cosmos IV . Discorsi-Verlag, Hamburg 2005.