Johannes Uhlig (botanist)

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Johannes Uhlig (born February 3, 1899 in Döbeln , † 1989 in Oederan ) was a German botanist and teacher.

Life

He grew up in Döbeln and, at the age of 14, attended the teachers' college in Grimma , which he graduated in 1919. He then worked as a teacher at various schools until he retired in 1965. In addition to his teaching activity, he studied biology by distance learning at the Pedagogical University in Potsdam , whereby he qualified as a high school teacher. As such, he was promoted to the faculty member in 1961 .

As a pensioner, he headed the Lauterbach branch of the GDR Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the Marienberg district in the Ore Mountains until 1969 . There he specifically examined grassland communities .

As a member of the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany, he was already active after the Second World War, especially with the friends of nature and homeland. His first research results as a Saxon botanist had already appeared before the war, such as his 1927 contribution on the flora of Oederan and the surrounding area in the history of the city of Oederan or the 1931 report The Societies of Naked Pond Mud (Eleocharetum ovatae) . Often he used for his publications also in Dresden published announcements of the National Association Saxony Homeland Security eV With Willy Flössner he published The plant communities of the West Saxon mountain and hill country . This was followed by several botanical publications on the Saxon region, including his contributions to the standard work Die Pflanzen Sachsens by Wünsche and Schorler, which appeared in its 12th, revised edition in 1956.

Johannes Uhlig wrote numerous botanical articles for the traditional series Values ​​of the German Homeland . The same applies to the manual of the nature reserves of the German Democratic Republic (districts Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Stadt and Dresden) , the second edition of which appeared in 1986. He belonged to the Working Group of Saxon Botanists , in whose report books he also published, for example in 1987 on the deciduous moss flora of the Flöha district .

Honors

  • Badge of honor of the Kulturbund der DDR in silver

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Weber: Johannes Uhlig 90 years . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 35, No. 3, 1989, p. 142.