Natural History Museum Hamburg

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Seal of the Natural History Museum Hamburg
Building of the Natural History Museum Hamburg 1891

The Natural History Museum Hamburg existed from 1843 to 1943.

history

Collections of the learned school of the Johanneum and the Natural Science Association in Hamburg formed the basis of the Natural History Museum Hamburg, founded on May 17, 1843. These came from Hamburg citizens.

The museum was initially housed in the Johanneum building; just like the Culturhistorisches Museum , from which the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg emerged in 1879 .

In 1891 the Natural History Museum was able to move into its own building on the Steintorwall. This was not far from the Hamburg Museum of Art and Industry, which had been in existence since 1874, and the Hamburger Kunsthalle, which opened in 1869 . The architects of the building were Manfred Semper and Carl Philipp Krutisch.

Some of the natural science collections housed in the museum were relocated at an early stage : in 1883, botany was given its own museum in Hamburg. In 1907 the mineralogical collections were outsourced.

In 1912 the Natural History Museum had an anthropological , a paleontological and a zoological collection.

During the Second World War , 1943, air raids by the Allies destroyed the museum building and parts of the collections, which are located near Hamburg Central Station . There was no reconstruction. Instead, in 1968, Horten AG built a department store on the same site, which is there to this day and which currently houses a Saturn store .

The successor to the Natural History Museum is the Hamburg Zoological Museum , which opened in 1983 .

In the 21st century, initiatives developed to found a new natural history museum in Hamburg. The Science Council recommended that the existing natural science collections in the Hanseatic city be preserved over the long term.

Center for Natural History

As a step towards the resurrection of a museum for natural history, the “ Center for Natural History ” (CeNak) was founded in 2014 , the director of which is Matthias Glaubrecht .

Directors

In 1882 the doctor and zoologist Alexander Pagenstecher was appointed director of the museum. In 1889 the biologist Karl Kraepelin took over the office. The zoologist Hans Lohmann followed Karl Kraepelin as director of the museum in 1914. Lohmann held the office until his death in 1934. With the appointment of Hans Lohmann as director, the name of the museum changed. The zoological museum became the natural history.

Employee

Jan Bohls , Ernst Ehrenbaum , Carl Christian Gottsche , Wilhelm Michaelsen , Erna Mohr , Hermann Wilhelm Strebel and Herbert Weidner were among the staff at the Natural History and Zoological Museum .

See also

literature

  • Susanne Köstering, Natural Science Association in Hamburg (ed.): A museum for world nature. The history of the Natural History Museum in Hamburg, Dölling u. Galitz, Hamburg, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86218-105-6
  • Susanne Köstering: Nature to look at. The Natural History Museum of the German Empire 1871-1914, Böhlau Verlag , Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-412-04702-3 .
  • Carsten Kretschmann: Rooms open up. Natural history museums in 19th century Germany, Akademie Verlag , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-05-004202-2 .
  • Herbert Weidner: 125 years of the Natural History Museum in Hamburg , Paul Parey Zeitschriftenverlag , Hamburg and Berlin 1969.
  • Messages from the Natural History Museum in Hamburg , (6.1888–10.1892 and 13.1896–31.1914)
  • The Natural History Museum , in: Directory of the lectures that are to be held at the Hamburg Academic and Real-Gymnasium from Easter ... to Easter ... (1855–1877)

Web links

Wikisource: Directory of the lectures, which at the Hamburg Academic and Real-Gymnasium ...  - Sources and full texts
Wikisource: Messages from the Natural History Museum in Hamburg  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About CeNak , accessed on February 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ A museum for the future. The important natural history collections at the University of Hamburg are in danger. Help is finally coming . In: Die Zeit , November 29, 2012.
  3. ^ Manfred Semper: The new building of the natural history museum . In: A walk through Hamburg to the members of the XVI. Assembly of Members of the Association of German Architects and Engineers Associations dedicated by the Architects and Engineers Association in Hamburg . Meyer & Dieckmann , Hamburg 1887, p. 64 ff.
  4. ^ Simone Pauls: Bankrupt company in Hamburg. In: Hamburger Morgenpost. February 25, 2020, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  5. ↑ About CeNak , accessed on February 23, 2017.
  6. ↑ Angela Grosse: A Museum for the Future , accessed on February 23, 2017.
  7. ↑ Natural History Museum in Hamburg is not making progress . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , November 28, 2012.
  8. ^ New Natural History Museum in Hamburg , accessed on February 23, 2017.
  9. ^ Wilhelm Hess:  Pagenstecher, Heinrich Alexander . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 789 f.
  10. ^ Christian Hünemörder : Biology and Racial Biology in Hamburg 1933 to 1945 . In: Eckart Krause et al. (Ed.): Everyday university life in the "Third Reich". The Hamburg University 1933–1945 , Volume III, Dietrich Reimer Verlag , Berlin / Hamburg 1991, pp. 1155–1196, here: p. 1156.
  11. ↑ The Natural History Museum was (temporarily) an institution connected to the Academic Gymnasium . Therefore, in almost every edition of the “Directories”, a short article entitled “The Natural History Museum” can be found in the “Annual Report” chapter. Also in the editions of the "directories" before 1855 there are short reports within the annual report. These annual reports in toto show the development of the collection over a period of 30 years.

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 3.9 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 19.5 ″  E