Karl Dannhauer

Karl Dannhauer (born March 12, 1891 in Borna , † March 16, 1977 in Plauen ) was a German teacher, ornithologist and botanist .

Life

Dannhauer was the son of an editor from Borna. He moved to Plauen with his parents at an early age , where he attended the teachers' seminar there until 1911. In 1914 he passed the elective examination in Wilkau and became a permanent teacher in Plauen. In this function he worked at various elementary and secondary schools in the Vogtland city ​​of Plauen until he retired in 1956 .

By acquiring special knowledge in the field of field ornithology, he became a nationally known specialist. In 1912 he was involved in founding the Plauen branch of the Bird Protection Association, which had its headquarters in Stuttgart, Württemberg, and was one of the most active members of the association. That is why he took over the management of the association in 1929, which he held until it was dissolved in 1945. At times, the association had around 400 members under his leadership, who looked after over 500 nesting boxes, for example. He also worked as a botanist and, for example, mapped numerous plant occurrences in the Saxon Vogtland .

He published his knowledge in numerous publications, including in the series of the Vogtland District Museum Plauen in 1963 the 88-page brochure Die Vogelwelt des Vogtlandes with photos by H. Czerlinsky or in the journals of the Vogtland Society for Nature Research , Articles on Ornithology , The Falcon and in the culture mirror for the city of Plauen . After having studied the bird life of a region very intensively for over half a decade and published several publications about it, he not only knew all the species of birds found there, but also knew the development and development of the ornis under the various external influences of human society .

Karl Dannhauer also worked as a specialist in the field of Vogtland flora. As early as the 1930s he mapped the area around Plauen together with the Plant Mapping Committee. From 1956 he was a member of the working group of Vogtland florists in the Kulturbund der GDR , in which he was actively involved for years until he had to take it easy for health reasons. During this time he also designed a small permanent plant exhibition in a shop window of the Concordia pharmacy in Plauen. The highlight of his work as a botanist was the completion of a botanical garden in 1960 on a plot of land in Plauen that was about 420 m² in size and was destroyed in the bombing in 1945. There were more than 400 different types of plants in this garden, most of which were labeled.

literature

• Rolf Weber : Karl Dannhauer in memory , in: Sächsische Heimatblätter 24 (1978), p. 141.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rolf Weber: Karl Dannhauer to commemorate , in: Sächsische Heimatblätter 24 (1978), p. 141.
2. ↑ OPD entry