Max Wolff

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Max Wolff (born September 6, 1879 in Löbejün , † November 1963 in Naumburg (Saale) ) was a German biologist .

Life

Wolff first studied medicine from 1899 , then natural sciences at the universities of Jena and Leipzig . In 1902 he paid a study visit to the Zoological Station Rovigno , in the same year assistant of Ernst Haeckel at Jena, where he in 1903 to Dr. phil. received his doctorate.

From 1903 to 1904 he was an assistant in Oskar Vogt's neurobiological laboratory at the University of Berlin , and in 1905 he was a volunteer assistant to Ernst Stahl in Jena, where he researched plant diseases. From 1905 to 1906 Wolff was an assistant at the Zoological Institute of the University of Halle and from 1906 to 1914 assistant at the Institute for Plant Diseases of the Academy for Agriculture in Bromberg .

From 1914 to 1941 he was a full professor of zoology at the Eberswalde Forest Academy , where he worked in particular on plant pests, forest insects and pest control. He joined the NSDAP in 1933 and in November 1933 signed the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . After his retirement he set up a private laboratory in Naumburg.

In 1950 he joined the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD) and became its chairman in the Naumburg district association. From 1954 to 1958 Wolff acted as first chairman of the district peace council in Halle , afterwards as honorary chairman of this body.

Wolff was awarded the Joliot Curie Medal and the German Peace Medal (1956), among others. In 1959, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

Fonts (selection)

  • The nervous system of the polypoid Hydrozoa and Scyphozoa , Journal of General Physiology 1904.
  • Forest scale insects , 1911
  • (together with Anton Krausse): The diseases of the Forleule and their prognostic significance for practice. WG Korn, Breslau 1925.
  • The German forest . Ullstein, Berlin 1927.
  • Our beetles . Ullstein, Berlin 1927.
  • The deep sea and its inhabitants , 1925
  • The invertebrates. A systematic overview . G. Fischer, Jena 1930.
  • (Ed.): The most important forest insects . Neumann, Neudamm 1933.

literature

  • Professor Dr. Max Wolff (obituary). In: Anzeiger für Schädlingskunde 37 (1), 1964.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 1029.
  • Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 377.
  2. ^ New Germany , September 16, 1959, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Löbejün
DATE OF DEATH November 1963
Place of death Naumburg