Hugo Weigold

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Max Hugo Weigold (born May 27, 1886 in Dresden , † July 9, 1973 in Bruckberg ) was a German zoologist and ecologist . He is considered a pioneer of bird ringing and a pioneer of nature conservation in Germany. He brought the idea of ​​nature conservation closer to the general public.

Life

Weigold studied science and geography . First, among others, with Ernst Haeckel at the University of Jena , later also with Richard Woltereck , Otto zur Strassen and Carl Chun at the University of Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1909. At the time of his doctorate in Leipzig he was working for the Scientific Commission for Marine Research , but then switched to the Prussian Biological Institute on Heligoland as an assistant . In 1910 he founded the Helgoland ornithological station there , which received worldwide attention as a scientific research station. From 1910 to 1924 the bird observatory was in charge.

Weigold completed numerous expeditions, including to the Riviera , Iceland and Syria. A trip with Walther Stoetzner to China and Tibet , which was planned from 1913 to 1915, had to be extended to a total of 1919 due to the outbreak of the First World War . From 1916 to 1919 he worked as an assistant teacher in Guangzhou . Weigold was the first western naturalist to see a giant panda in China .

In 1924 he became director of the natural history department of the Provincial Museum in Hanover and from 1926 to 1934 he was a commissioner for the preservation of natural monuments in the province of Hanover.

Different animal species bear his name, among others

Hugo Weigold had been a member of the German Ornithological Society since 1909 .

The Nature Conservation History Foundation manages the estate of the natural scientist Weigold in its archive. The estate comprises around a meter of shelf space and consists of ornithological documents (mapping material, manuscripts), correspondence, photos and drawings.

Works (excerpt)

  • Hugo Weigold: An urgent duty for naturalists . Special print edition. 1923.
  • Hugo Weigold, Ernst Schüz : Atlas of bird migration according to the ringing results in Palearctic birds , Berlin: Friedländer 1931
  • Hugo Weigold: The biogeography of Tibet and its foothills . Association of Saxon Ornithologists, Hohenstein-Ernstthal 2005, ISBN 3-9806583-6-8 .

literature

  • H. Kumerloeve: Hugo Weigold in memoriam . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 115 , no. 2 , 1974, p. 234-235 . , DOI: 10.1007 / BF01643292
  • Fritz Steiniger (Hrsg.): Nature and hunting in Lower Saxony . Festschrift for the 70th birthday of the museum director i. R. Dr. phil. Hugo Weigold on May 27, 1956. Working group for local zoological research, Hanover 1956, p. VII, 235 (special edition of the "Contributions to Lower Saxony's Natural History" of the Working Group for Zoological Local Research in Lower Saxony, Hanover).
  • Inge Weigold: Respect nature, it belongs to you alone! : Hugo Weigold, his path to becoming a naturalist and early fighter for nature conservation . Hansen, Hannover-Limmer 1986.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Max Hugo Wiegold in the archive of the Nature Conservation History Foundation. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Max Hugo Weigold's holdings in the online archive of the Nature Conservation History Foundation , accessed on April 29, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Weigold, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weigold, Max Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and ecologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1973
Place of death Bruckberg