Karl Koch (botanist)

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Karl Koch (born August 13, 1875 in Osnabrück ; † February 28, 1964 there ) was a German teacher, botanist and conservationist .

Life

Koch received his training at the Protestant preparatory institute and at the Protestant teachers' seminar in Osnabrück. He was a teacher of geography and biology in Kalkriese , Bramsche and Osnabrück, including at the local ev. Citizens' School / Möser-Mittelschule (boys) (April 1, 1908 until retirement September 30, 1935). From October 1, 1935, he held the post of vice principal at this school. As a substitute teacher worked in the Möser Middle School during the Second World War and also from May 1, 1945 to September 30, 1949. In addition, he was committed to landscape and nature conservation. He was particularly interested in researching the flora of the Osnabrück area. The main work he published in 1934 was the “Flora of the Osnabrück Government District and the Neighboring Areas”, the second edition of which appeared in 1958.

As the district commissioner for nature conservation, Koch campaigned for the designation of nature reserves and natural monuments. He built and looked after the first botanical garden in Osnabrück (destroyed in World War II) . From 1947 to 1958 he was chairman of the natural science association Osnabrück. The herbarium of approx. 6,000 specimens he created later came into the possession of the Natural Science Museum in Osnabrück.

Awards

Koch was honorary chairman of the Osnabrück Natural Science Association, recipient of the Justus Möser Medal of the City of Osnabrück (1945), corresponding member of the Natural History Society of Hanover (1948) and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1960).

Afterlife

Squares, streets, paths and buildings

In 1969 the city of Osnabrück recognized Koch's services as a pedagogue and botanist by naming a street after his name.

  • There is a "Karl-Koch-Straße" in Osnabrück (since October 2nd, 1969)

Works

  • The plant life of the grasslands, heaths and heather bogs in the Osnabrück landscape. A formation-biological description. (51st / 52nd annual report of the Westf. Prov. Association for Science and Art. Pp. 214–250, Münster 1922/24)
  • The plant associations of the Osnabrück landscape . (Osnabrücker Heimatbuch, Volume 2 - The native landscape, pp. 25–63, Osnabrück 1925)
  • The vegetation units of the Lin Plain. (Year of the St. Gallische Naturwissenschaftlichen Ges. 61st St. Gallen 1926)
  • Biological observations (Osnabrück 1929)
  • Palaeobotanical studies of some moors in the Münsterland. (Beih. Bot. Zentralbl. 46. Dresden 1929)
  • The semi-dry grass society on the Lengericher Berge with special consideration of the protected and those in need of protection. (Treatises from the Westphalian Museum of Natural History. Vol. 2, pp. 95–102, Münster 1931)
  • The vegetation conditions of the Silberberg in the hill area near Osnabrück. (Communication from the Natural Science Association in Osnabrück, Vol. 22, No. 1, 35 p., 8 illustrations, Osnabrück 1932)
  • Flora of the administrative district of Osnabrück and the neighboring areas. (Rackhorst, Osnabrück 1934, 2nd extended edition 1958)

literature

  • Johannes Niemann: Karl Koch in memory . In: Osnabrücker Land 1976, p. 234f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Altehage: Karl Koch, the pedagogue, scientist and local historian in memory. [1]
  2. ↑ Staatsarchiv Osnabrück - Staatsarchiv Osnabrück - NLA OS, Erw A 38, Akz. 46/1996 No. 13
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, botanist and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1964
Place of death Osnabrück