Margita von Rochow

Margita von Rochow (* 1921 ; † 1974 in Lausanne ) was a botanist , palynologist and plant sociologist .

Life

In 1942, Margita von Rochow and Reinhold Tüxen mapped the vegetation of the area near Auschwitz . It is not known whether she and Tüxen knew about the purpose of this mapping.

On June 29, 1948, Margita von Rochow received her doctorate with her work Die Vegetation des Kaiserstuhl: Plant sociology. Regional monograph with e. Kt. D. Plant communities on a scale of 1:25,000 at the Natural Science and Mathematics Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Margita von Rochow was a research assistant at the geobotanical institute of the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1948 to 1956 . In 1957 she married Pierre Villaret , who at that time was still an associate professor in Lausanne (from 1966 director of the Institute for Botanical Systematics, from 1972 full professor). After her marriage she called herself Margita Villaret-von Rochow. She moved to Lausanne after her marriage and had two children (1958 and 1960).

From 1957 until her death in 1974 she was a research assistant at the Geobotanical Institute Rübel at the ETH Zurich in Lausanne. Among other things, she worked with Werner Lüdi on experimental ecosystem research on Schynigen Platte in the Bernese Oberland. She held a professorship in Lausanne.

Works (selection)

• The vegetation of the Kaiserstuhl: plant sociology. Regional monograph with e. Kt. D. Plant communities on a scale of 1 : 25,000 , published by Göttingen, 1948, Freiburg, Naturwiss.-math. F., Diss. V. June 29, 1948
• The plant communities of the Kaiserstuhl: work from d. Central Office for Vegetation Mapping Stolzenau , Jena: G. Fischer, 1951
• Root investigation on subalpine sward , in report on the Geobotanical Research Institute Rübel in Zurich, Report House Zurich, 1955, DOI: 10.5169 / seals-377556
• Age determination of a peat from the subsoil of Löwenplatz in Lucerne , in report on the Geobotanical Research Institute Rübel in Zurich, Zurich report house, 1956, DOI: 10.5169 / seals-377564
• The remains of plants from the Bronze Age pile dwellings at Valeggio am Mincio , in a report on the Rübel Geobotanical Research Institute in Zurich, Zurich Report House, 1957, DOI: 10.5169 / seals-377572
• Spines of Euryale sp. in the north German Pleistocene: a new interglacial fossil , in report on the Geobotanical Research Institute Rübel in Zurich, Zurich report house, 1958, DOI: 10.5169 / seals-308097
• The pollen diagram of a forest boundary moor in the Vaudois Alps , in a report on the Rübel Geobotanical Research Institute in Zurich, Zurich Report House, 1958, DOI: 10.5169 / seals-308033
• Ficus carica in a Bronze Age settlement in Northern Italy , in a report on the Rübel Geobotanical Research Institute in Zurich, Zurich Report House, 1958, DOI: 10.5169 / seals-308098
• Comparative observations on recent and fossil Euryale seeds , in reports of the Geobotanical Institute of the Federal Institute of Technology Rübel Foundation, 1962, DOI: 10.5169 / seals-308221
• Revision of some macrofossils from the "Rhododendron ponticum leading" interglacial from Noranco , in reports of the Geobotanical Institute of the Federal Institute of Technology Rübel Foundation, 1964, DOI: 10.5169 / seals-377648
• Remnants of fruit and seeds from the Neolithic Seeberg station, Burgäschisee-Süd , in Bern: Stämpfli, 1967, reprint from: Acta Bernensia. Vol. 2. Part 4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} vita uni Göttingen. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
2. ↑ Auschwitz in Hansjörg Küster: Nature Conservation and National Socialism , p. 60. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
3. ^ The vegetation of the Kaiserstuhl: Plant sociology. Regional monograph with e. Kt. D. Plant communities on a scale of 1 : 25,000 , published by Göttingen, 1948, Freiburg, Naturwiss.-math. F., Diss. V. June 29, 1948
4. ↑ ^{a b} Pierre Villaret, Bulletin du Cercle Vaudois de Botanique N ° 31, 2002: 7-11., Online at core.ac.uk. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
5. ↑ Otto Hegg, Urs Schaffner: 80 years of experimental ecosystem research on the Schynigen Platte in the Bernese Oberland , Haupt Berne, 2012, ISBN 978-3-258-07720-8 , p. 18. online at google-books. Retrieved November 5, 2018.