Kurt Hueck

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Kurt Hueck (born January 16, 1897 in Berlin ; † July 28, 1965 in Buenos Aires / Argentina ) was a German botanist who was persecuted by National Socialism . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Hueck ".

Life

Adolf Konrad Kurt Hueck was born as the son of the sign painter Ernst Robert Gustav Hueck and his wife Alma Martha. Biester was born on January 16, 1897 at Straussbergerstrasse 16 in Berlin. Hueck studied natural sciences and especially botany at the University of Berlin from 1921 to 1925 , among others with Ludwig Diels (1874–1945) and Hermann Reimers (1893–1961).

In 1925 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. The topic of his dissertation was vegetation studies on Brandenburg raised bogs . From 1924 to 1944 he worked as a research assistant at the State Agency for Natural Monument Preservation and the Reich Agency for Nature Conservation. In 1933 he completed his habilitation at the Agricultural University in Berlin . From 1933 to 1934 Hueck was a private lecturer in botany at the Agricultural University and from 1934 to 1937 at the University of Berlin.

In 1937 Hueck's license to teach was withdrawn because he was married to a Jew, the daughter of the astronomer Simon Archenhold , and refused to divorce her. In autumn 1944 he was deported by the Gestapo as a forced laborer to a labor camp in Leuna , where he had to do the most difficult and humiliating work behind barbed wire.

From 1946 to 1948, Hueck was a full professor of agriculture and forest botany and director of the Institute for Agricultural Botany at the University of Berlin. From 1949 to 1953 he taught as a professor of botany at the Instituto Miguel Lillo of the National University of Tucumán in Argentina , where Hermann Otto Sleumer also worked. From 1953 to 1956 he was Professor of Botany at the Departamento de Botânica of the University of São Paulo , Brazil , and from 1956 to 1959 Professor of Botany at the Instituto Forestal Latino Americano de Investigación y Capacitación in Mérida (Venezuela) .

In 1960 Hueck returned to Germany and taught as a full professor. for botany at the Institute for Silviculture at the University of Munich . His main fields were phytosociology and plant geography , vegetation mapping , Moor customer , nature conservation and forest botany .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See birth register entry of the StA Berlin 7a No. 177/1897.
  2. ^ Letter of condolence from Kurt Hueck dated October 8, 1946 to Charlotte Baldner, widow of his fellow inmate, Max Baldner, in Leuna

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personal data
SURNAME Hueck, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1965
Place of death Buenos Aires , Argentina