Joachim Hämmerling

Joachim August Wilhelm Hämmerling the 3rd (born March 9, 1901 in Berlin ; † August 5, 1980 in Wilhelmshaven ) was a German botanist and university professor .

Life

Hämmerling studied biology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin from 1920 to 1924 , briefly also at the Philipps-Universität Marburg . His teachers in Berlin were Gottlieb Haberlandt (botany) and Max Hartmann (zoology). In 1924 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1924 to 1940 Hämmerling was initially a research assistant (to Max Hartmann) at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin-Dahlem, and from 1931 private lecturer .

In 1940 he became director of the German-Italian Institute for Marine Biology Rovigno d'Istria , and from 1942 to 1945 he was an adjunct professor for marine biology at the University of Berlin. In 1946 he became head of the department of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Langenargen on Lake Constance. From 1949 to 1970, Hämmerling was director of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Biology (from 1968 for cell biology) in Wilhelmshaven .

Among other things, Hämmerling worked on the Acetabularia umbrella . In 1970 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society .

Ilse Jahn : history of biology. Theories, methods, institutions, short biographies . Nikol VG Spectrum, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-937872-01-9 .
Henry Harris: Joachim Hämmerling, March 9, 1901– August 5, 1980. In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Volume 28, 1982, pp. 110-126, doi: 10.1098 / rsbm.1982.0005 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hammerling, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hämmerling, Joachim August Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 9, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	5th August 1980
Place of death	Wilhelmshaven