Karl Daumer

Karl Daumer (born January 22, 1932 in Munich ) is a German biologist. From 1997 to 2000 he was President of the Association of German Biologists (Vdbiol) .

Life

Daumer studied biology, chemistry, physics and geography at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1951 to 1956 and received his doctorate in 1956 from Karl von Frisch on the color sense of bees with exams in zoology, botany and physics at the LMU Munich. From 1956 he worked as a grammar school teacher in Munich until he retired in 1995. Daumer has been married to Gabriele Daumer since 1959 and has two children.

Karl Daumer received offers from the University of Zurich (1963) and Frankfurt (1970), but remained at the school with the aim of raising biology lessons at grammar schools to a new level in line with the growing importance of biology. To this end, he built up the biology teacher training in Bavaria with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Max Planck Institutes for Biochemistry and Behavioral Physiology as well as institutes of the biological and medical faculties of the University of Munich, later at the state teacher training academy in Dillingen. He imparted his experimental teaching models on genetics, behavioral biology and neurobiology in almost all federal states and in Austria (1967–1977).

Daumer developed the first curricular curriculum for biology in Bavaria as head of the AK at the State Institute for School Education (1972–1975) and is the author of numerous teacher's handbooks as well as the teacher's manual "Classical and Molecular Genetics" at Aulis-Verlag Cologne (1st edition 1975, further editions and reprints to date) as well as author and publisher of biology textbooks and workbooks for secondary level I and secondary level II at Bayerischer Schulbuchverlag, Munich (since 1977 a total of 15 volumes, in new editions until today). He is also the author of slide series and educational films for biology classes at FWU and IFW, including a film with and about Nobel Prize winner Karl von Frisch (1886–1982).

Daumer was heavily involved in the work of the Association of German Biologists Vdbiol, first as chairman of the Bavarian State Association of the Association of German Biologists (1985); later as spokesman for the regional associations on the executive board of vdbiol (1991–1996), and president of the Association of German Biologists (1997 to 2000). Daumer founded the university biologists section in the vdbiol together with Gerhard Neuweiler (1993) initiated the establishment of the vdbiol regional associations of Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt (1990) and the state working groups for freelance biologists and administrative biologists.

Daumer initiated the BioTech Mobil to support upper school classes and public relations work for genetic engineering and biotechnology in cooperation with the Gene Center Munich and five Bavarian ministries (from 1997) and the cooperation with the Bavarian research association FORGEN in the organization of information events on genetic engineering for teachers and students ( 1998/99) and 2001 the Munich Science Days . He was in charge of this major event, which is known beyond the borders of the state capital, as project manager from 2001 to 2008.

Awards

• Academy Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for mediating between university and school (1988)
• Honorary professor for zoology at LMU Munich (1992)
• Eduard Strasburger Prize for special services to school biology (1999)
• Medal Munich lights up the state capital Munich (2009)
• Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (October 27, 2009)

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Daumer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal website