Ingo Krumbiegel

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Ingo Krumbiegel (born February 25, 1903 in Dresden , † October 11, 1990 in Hameln ) was a German mammal loge , doctor and animal rights activist .

Life

Krumbiegel was the son of a Dresden lawyer and city councilor. After studying medicine in Berlin and Leipzig, he worked as an anatomy assistant. In 1926 he was with the thesis about "gill slits and cervical fistulae" in reference to a surgical hospital in the Leipzig operated cases of Fistula colli congenita Dr. med is doing his doctorate. This was followed by studies of zoology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , where he obtained his second doctorate in 1928 with the doctoral thesis investigations into the effects of reproduction on the aging and lifespan of insects, carried out on Carabus and Drosophila . In the same year he published his first scientific description of theForaminous -type Shepheardella encommatophila , in the Baltic Sea occurs. In 1934 he took over the post of director of the Dresden Zoo as the successor to Gustav Brandes and interim director Hellmuth Buck , which he had to vacate again in 1936 under pressure from the NSDAP . In January 1940, Krumbiegel was appointed to the mammals department of the Munich State Zoological Collection , where he worked as a curator until 1943. During this time he was responsible for the conservation and scientific analysis of the mammal collection that Hans Krieg had put together on his four South America expeditions from 1925 to 1938. In a relatively short time, he worked systematically and taxonomically on the extensive material with several hundred furs and skulls. His results, which also contain several new descriptions of subspecies, were published in the 17-part series of articles The mammals of the South American expeditions Prof. Dr. Kriegs , which appeared from 1940 to 1941 in issues 131 to 136 of the Zoologischer Anzeiger. All of these subspecies, including Chaetophractus villosus desertorum , Tamandua tetradactyla kriegi , Agouti paca venecuelica , Dolichotis salinicola ballivianensis and Tayra barbara kriegi , are now considered invalid. In 1942 he described the white-limbed colobus monkey ( Colobus metternichi ) from the island of Fernando Póo , which turned out to be a partially albino specimen of the black colobus monkey ( Colobus satanas ).

In 1943 Krumbiegel was called up for military service. However, due to his epidemiological research on mice, which was classified as "vital to the war effort", he was able to avoid being deployed at the front and worked at a bacteriological institute in Reinbek near Hamburg , where he received a research assignment on rodents and leptospiroses .

After the war, Krumbiegel made a name for himself as a popular science author. In 1949 he described the Andean wolf ( Dasycyon hagenbecki ) based on a fur that Lorenz Hagenbeck had acquired in 1927, a cryptid which Fritz Dieterlen had already classified as doubtful in 1954 and which Ángel Cabrera Latorre regarded as a domestic dog in 1957 . In 1950 Krumbiegel's most famous work On New and Undiscovered Animal Species was published . It is considered the first German-language book of a direction that was made popular by Bernard Heuvelmans as cryptozoology . In terms of content, the book deals with animals that were discovered in the 20th century, including the okapi , the Chinese river dolphin , the kouprey , the king cheetah , the Congo peacock and the hornhokko .

In the period that followed, Krumbiegel worked as a university professor for biology in Hanover and as a curator for mammals at the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover until the end of the 1960s .

In the 1970s and 1980s Krumbiegel worked as an expert in cases of cruelty to animals in animal experiments and as an activist in environmental campaigns. He fought particularly against vivisection in the primate centers and was a founding member of the Doctors Against Animal Experiments Association in 1979, alongside Werner Hartinger and Herbert Stiller . He also campaigned for the liberation of abused elephants, hippos, and other large mammals kept in shabby, poorly run menageries and small circuses.

During his professional career, Krumbiegel undertook seven expeditions to South America, about which he always published the scientific results. With his wife he traveled via Afghanistan to India and over the Chaiber Pass on the closed hashish route. In the Middle East, he studied deforestation and the extinction of mammals in historical times.

Fonts (selection)

  • Animal biology in Germany. Mammalia I. , 1930
  • How do I feed captured animals? , 1933
  • The Giraffe - With Particular Consideration of Breeds , 1939
  • On the knowledge of the mammalian fauna by Fernando Poo , Archive for Natural History No. 11, 1942, pp. 305-349
  • The African Elephant Monographs of Wild Mammals, Volume IX, 1943
  • Of Pets and Their History , 1947
  • The miracle of life in plants and animals , 1947
  • Animals and animal pictures of the caveman . Lux Reading Sheet 38, 1948
  • Eurasian mice as disease vectors: Distribution and geomedical significance Issue 3. Contributions to hygiene and epidemiology, 1948
  • Animal giants of the primeval world Lux reading sheet No. 52, 1949
  • Hunters of Prehistoric Times Lux Reading Sheet 59. Small library of knowledge. Natural and cultural history booklets. Natural history, 1949
  • Of new and undiscovered animal species , 1950
  • The lion , 1951
  • Lamas , 1952
  • Camels , 1952
  • Mammalian Biology , Volumes 1 and 2, 1953 and 1955
  • Of islands and island animals , 1956
  • Gregor Mendel and the fate of his discovery , 1957
  • Equine , 1958
  • Steppe and desert animals , 1960
  • Forest animals , 1960
  • The rudimentation. A monographic study , 1960
  • Reformation phenomena in the animal kingdom , 1961
  • The ostriches , 1966
  • The giraffe , 1971
  • Cruelty to Animals - A Path into the Abyss , 1981

literature

  • Gunter G. Sehm: Ingo Krumbiegel 1903–1990 . The ISC Newsletter. International Society of Cryptozoology. Summer 1991, Volume 10, Number 2, pp. 9-10
  • Richard Kraft: 5.4. The Mammals Section of the Munich State Zoological Collection , pp. 138–154 In: E. Diller and A. Hausmann (Eds.) Festschrift on the farewell of the Director of the Munich State Zoological Collection Prof. Dr. Ernst Josef Fittkau 1976–1992 , Spixiana - Journal of Zoology, Supplement 17, Munich, 1992, ISBN 3-923871-62-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingo Krumbiegel: The Andenwolf: A newly discovered large animal , Umschau in Wissenschaft und Technik 49, 1949, pp. 590-591
  2. ^ Fritz Dieterlen: About the hair structure of the Andean wolf, Dasycyon hagenbecki (Krumbiegel 1949) . Mammalian Studies 2, 1954
  3. ↑ Angel Cabrera: Catalogo de los mamiferos de America del Sur, Volume 1 (Metatheria - Ungulata - Carnivora) Revista Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (Zoologica), 1957
  4. ^ Bernard Heuvelmans: On the track of unknown Animals , Hill & Wang, New York, 1958
personal data
SURNAME Krumbiegel, Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mammal loge, doctor and animal rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1990
Place of death Hamelin