Karl Offner

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Karl Offner (born January 9, 1939 in Hammelburg ) is a German pedagogue, psychologist and bryologist . He lives and works in Markt Diedorf .

life and work

Offner was born the son of a civil engineering contractor . After graduating from high school in Bad Kissingen in 1958 , he studied mathematics and physics for higher education at the University of Würzburg . After graduating in 1964, he completed his legal clerkship at the Röntgen Gymnasium in Würzburg . From 1966 he studied psychology in addition to his work as a high school teacher . He completed this second degree in 1972 with a diploma.

From 1972 Offner taught at the Holbein-Gymnasium in Augsburg . As a school psychologist he was an employee of the ministerial representative for the grammar schools in the administrative district of Swabia . As director of studies , he worked from 1980 until his retirement in 2002 as a specialist advisor to the Bavarian Ministry of Culture in developing the school advisory system.

Karl Offner has been married to the dentist Herma born in 1967. Hole from St. Wendel .

Work as a bryologist

Through his moss drawings , Offner made contact with the moss mappers around Rüdiger Mues , Saarbrücken, in 1995 . 1996–2006 he regularly took part in its excursions and determination workshops. During this time he made contributions to Ludwig opinioner's distribution atlas of mosses in Germany by mapping moss in the Bavarian Rhön . In Augsburg he worked closely as a bryologist with the nature conservation authorities at all levels. Since 1999 he has been a member of the Natural Science Association for Swabia . Here he led excursions, wrote numerous reports and gave lectures. With his moss inventory of the Ammergebirge nature reserve (2010) he closed a gap in the distribution of mosses in the Bavarian Alpine region. Offner obtained three initial records of moss species in Germany: Andreaea heinemannii , Barbula amplexifolia , Plagiochila britannica .

Fonts

  • with Steffen Caspari and Peter Wolff: Comments on the distribution, morphology and ecology of the deciduous moss Rhynchostegium alopecuroides (Brid.) AJESm. in the foreland of the Saarland. In: From nature and landscape in Saarland. Anniversary volume for the 30th anniversary of the working group for animal and plant geographical local research in Saarland DELATTINIA Abh. 24/1998 , pp. 47–56
  • Distribution of mosses in the Augsburg area. In: Reports of the Natural Science Association for Swabia 105. 41–66 (2001)
  • New discoveries of Andreaea heinemannii in the Bavarian Rhön. Herzogia 17: 329-331 (2004)
  • The rare mosses of the Bavarian Rhön. Reports of the Bavarian Botanical Society for Research into Native Flora 73/74: 109–123 (2004)
  • The moss inventory of the Bad Kissingen district. Reports of the Bavarian Botanical Society for Research on Native Flora 75: 11–38 (2005)
  • The moss inventory of the Rhön-Grabfeld district. Reports of the Bavarian Botanical Society for Research on Native Flora 77: 33–69 (2007)
  • The moss inventory of the Ammergebirge nature reserve in the Ostallgäu district. In: Reports of the Natural Science Association for Swabia 114: 19–55 (2010)
  • see also complete list of publications on bryology

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] on delattinia.de
  2. ↑ PDF on ZOBODAT
  3. ↑ [2] on herzogia.blam-bl.de
  4. ↑ [3] on bbgev.de
personal data
SURNAME Offner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, psychologist and bryologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hammelburg