Karl Dreher (apologist)

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Karl Dreher (born December 30, 1909 ; † August 20, 2001 ) was a German zoologist and apologist . Dreher was a member of the NSDAP .

Life

After studying biology at the Philipps University of Marburg, Karl Dreher did his doctorate on the construction and development of the honeybee's respiratory system . Dreher became a member of the NSDAP in 1933 (No. 4329567). From 1937 he worked as an assistant and from 1939 to 1941 as Karl Freudenstein's representative at the University's "Apprenticeship and Research Institute". This was followed by military service from 1941 to 1945.

After the war he became the head of the Marburg teaching and research institute, which function he held until 1950. In 1950 he took over the management of the "Beekeeping Experimental Station of the Kurhessischer Beekeeper Association". From 1954 to 1974 Karl Dreher then headed the “Specialist Center for Bees and Apiculture in Mayen” in the Eifel as a “State Training and Research Institute for Beekeeping” and for a long time dealt with the control of the Varroa mite. In addition to Dreher, the other directors and researchers of the most important German bee institutes were former NSDAP members, especially Gottfried Götze (NSDAP membership number 4329567), Friedrich Ruttner (No. 6360728), Wolfgang Steche (No. 7109058). Neither the German Beekeeping Association (DIB) nor most of the bee institutes adequately dealt with their history during the Nazi era.

In 1969 Karl Dreher was appointed as honorary editor of the beekeeping magazines Die Biene , Imkerfreund and Allgemeine Deutsche Beekeeperzeitung , in order to make the important and critical beekeeper Ludwig Armbruster , "Jew friend" and Nazi victim, "insignificant" by not publishing any important articles by Armbruster until 2004 were allowed to be. Not even the 100th birthday was reported. Dreher published the standard work The practical beekeeper in succession to Heinrich Storch . As head of breeding at DIB and editor of the magazine Die Biene (1947 to 1996), Dreher had a decisive influence on the fact that the Carinthian bee (Carnica) spread throughout the German-speaking area in the years after the Second World War, including the dark European bee , which is native to the north of the Alps was almost completely displaced. From Dreher's point of view, the reasons were the larger population and the higher honey yield that could be achieved with it. The dispute about the correct breeding policy for honey bees was conducted with great personal severity at that time. In the dispute with the beekeeper Ludwig Armbruster, who was dismissed by the Nazis as a “friend of the Jews” in 1934, Dreher's NSDAP membership also played an important role.

Shortly before he retired in 1974, Konrad Dreher had a car accident resulting in paraplegia. Despite his disability, Konrad Dreher remained editor and honorary editor of various beekeeping magazines well into old age. In 1975 the German Beekeeping Association appointed him honorary beekeeper.

Publications

  • Heinrich Storch and Karl Dreher: The practical beekeeper

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c DNB 08/2011, p. 283.
  2. ↑ a b c d Steffen Rückl, Documentation 2nd edition 2015, p. 52
  3. ↑ Steffen Rückl, Documentation 2nd edition 2015, p. 52
  4. ↑ Steffen Rückl: Ludwig Armbruster - by the National Socialists in 1934 forcibly retired apologist from the Berlin University. A documentation . (= Humboldt University of Berlin. Economics and Social Sciences in Agriculture. Working paper No. 78). Humboldt University, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86004-207-6 ; 2nd edited edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-86004-305-9 , p. 32.
  5. ^ Die Biene , Beekeeper Friend , Allgemeine Deutsche Beekeeperzeitung (ADIZ) , 1969 to 2004.
  6. ↑ The bee. 8/1973, pp. 228-229.
  7. ↑ Allgemeine deutsche beekeeper newspaper, volume 9, 1975, p. 38
personal data
SURNAME Dreher, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German apologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1909
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 2001