Oskar Bürgener

Oskar Bürgener (born March 23, 1876 in Sachsenhagen , † January 12, 1966 in Stralsund ) was a German high school teacher, biologist and botanist.

Education and professional activity

Oskar Bürgener was born in Sachsenhagen in Schaumburg in 1876 ; he spent his childhood in Fuhlen on the Weser, where his father worked as a pastor and gardener . As a child, he was already very interested in his natural environment. From 1886 to Easter 1896 he attended high school in Rinteln . He then began studying mathematics and natural sciences at the Göttingen University and University in Marburg . He became a member of the Göttinger and Marburger Wingolf . In November 1900 he passed the examination ( 1st state examination ) for the teaching post in secondary schools and began his preparatory service. From 1900 to 1902 this took him to the cities of Trier , Cologne , Düren and Siegburg . After passing the 2nd state examination , he was employed at a secondary school in Cologne from 1902 to September 1906. On October 1, 1906, he began his service as a senior teacher at a secondary school in Stralsund . Here he was appointed professor in 1914 and senior teacher in 1928 . His retirement in March 1938 was withdrawn after the outbreak of war, and after the war he was still active in school until June 1, 1949.

Oskar Bürgener died in Stralsund in 1966.

Activity as a botanist

During his studies he became interested in floristry . His university teacher Peter was formative for him. Even after his studies he went on trips that took him to the Frisian Islands, the Harz Mountains and Bornholm . During his many years of activity in Stralsund, he collected 324 species of moss from his adopted home in Western Pomerania . For more than ten years he was in close contact with the Berlin researcher Hans Sydow (1879–1946), for whom he collected around 80 mushrooms for his “Mycothea germanica” and who in return determined 750 lower mushrooms for him.

Otto Dibbelt , the founder of the Nature Museum in Stralsund, from which today's German Marine Museum emerged , was able to win him over in the spring of 1950 to help set up a museum of natural history. Here he sifted through and arranged among other things the bird egg collection and the herbaria . He transferred his private collections to the museum's holdings, including his mushroom collections and herbaria, and also looked after the museum's garden. As the basis for the new Stralsund home atherbarium, he laid down the spatial boundaries that Theodor Marsson had described in his work "Flora von Neu-Vorpommern and the islands of Rügen and Usedom" published in 1869, and collected the plants described by Marsson in this area. The home atherbarium contained 3,285 herbarium sheets in 1966.

For his work in building the museum, he was made the museum's honorary curator in 1959. In September 1965 he quit his job; four months later he died.

literature

• Oskar Bürgener and H. Buhr: Additions to the knowledge of the downy mildew and Erysiphacea of ​​Mecklenburg. In: Archives of the Friends of Natural History in Mecklenburg. Vol. 4, pp. 89-94.
• Oskar Bürgener: Rügen's orchids then and now. In: Archives of the Friends of Natural History in Mecklenburg. Vol. 5, pp. 184-194.

swell

• Oskar Bürgener: Handwritten manuscript with his own biography
• Erika Hoppe: On the history of the botanical collections of the German Maritime Museum. In: Sea and Museum. Volume 19, German Oceanographic Museum, Stralsund 2006.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Complete directory of Wingolf 1991