Otti Wilmanns

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Ottilie Wilmanns (born October 24, 1928 in Bremen ) is a German botanist and professor emeritus in the Faculty of Biology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Live and act

Otti Wilmanns comes from an old Hanseatic family of merchants and scholars and grew up in Bremen. Due to the war, she spent part of her school days in Tuttlingen . After graduating from high school, Otti Wilmanns began an agricultural apprenticeship on a farm in the Lake Constance hinterland in August 1948 before starting university in Tübingen in July 1949 . She studied biology , geology and chemistry in Tübingen and Göttingen . Influential teachers were Walter Zimmermann , Konrad Buchwald and the geologists Georg Wagner and Eugen Seibold .

In 1955, she completed her studies with a state examination for higher education and a doctorate with a thesis on the plant communities and locations of the " Greuthau " nature reserve and its surroundings .

After an assistantship and habilitation in botany, she worked from 1961 as a scientific adviser to the chair for botany at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , where she represented the subjects of geobotany and systematics . In 1975 she was appointed to the newly created chair for geobotany. Otti Wilmanns retired in 1996.

Her research concerns all facets of plant sociology , especially site ecology and the dynamics of vegetation . Her scientific work focuses on the following topics:

  • Research into epiphytes - synusia , especially of lichen communities on tree trunks, which also led to theoretical considerations on plant sociology and the classification of vegetation units and synusia
  • Investigations into landscape and vegetation change using the example of different plant communities in the Swabian Alb , in the Black Forest and in the Kaiserstuhl
  • Investigations of vegetation complexes, for example using the example of redesigned wine-growing landscapes of the Kaiserstuhl, in which she was able to demonstrate, based on the types of vegetation , that the redesigned area was significantly biologically impoverished.
  • Otti Willmanns was able to gain groundbreaking insights into the processes of succession in the vegetation using the example of long-term permanent observations on the Kaiserstuhl grasslands .

Together with Günther Osche , Otti Wilmanns gave the research of the interaction between flora and fauna and thus the young discipline of biocenology a major boost.

In her investigations and above all in the training of the students, she placed great emphasis on nature conservation-oriented basic research as well as on the practical application of plant-sociological and biocenological working methods.

After an exemplary mapping of the Kaiserstuhl biotopes carried out in 1973 together with Helga Rasbach, she initiated the "Pilot Study Biotope Mapping Baden-Württemberg" in 1976 and implemented it with her employees and students as a model for the southern Baden region. The mapping method she developed was subsequently adopted by the then State Institute for Environmental Protection for biotope mapping throughout the country.

After her retirement, Otti Wilmanns dealt among other things with the settlement history of the Central Black Forest . As a result of her research, she showed in a publication in 2009 that Gallo Romans had lived in the area of ​​the rivers Kinzig and Elz by analyzing the linguistic roots of field names and substantiating her thesis with landscape-ecological-geobotanical facts in the area. On the basis of climatic data, the geological conditions and the vegetation, she was able to prove a particularly favorable location for the early settlements.

Otti Wilmanns is a great role model as a university teacher for several generations of students. She has dealt with the didactics and methodology of botanical and landscape excursions in several publications. One example is her Black Forest excursion guide , published in 2001 , in which she uses 45 hiking routes to convey the landscape and vegetation of the Black Forest.

To support young researchers in the field of plant sociology, she founded the Otti-Wilmanns Foundation .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Plant communities and locations in the “Greuthau” nature reserve and its surroundings (Reutlinger Alb) . In: Publ. Landesstelle Naturschutz u. Landscape conservation Baden-Württemb. Festschrift for Hans Schwenkel on his 70th birthday. 24: 317-451. 1956 Ludwigsburg.
  • The plant communities of the fields and the economic grassland on the Reutlinger Alb - contributions to natural history research in south-west Germany 15: 30-51. 1956 ( full text )
  • For the spatial parallelization of epiphyte and forest communities . Contributions to natural history research in Southwest Germany, 1958 Karlsruhe ( full text )
  • A device for mechanizing table work . Reports of the German Botanical Society 72: 419-420. 1959
  • Epiphyte societies in Northern Europe compared with those in Central Europe . Phyton, Annales Rei Botanicae, Horn 8_1_2: 175-182. 1959 ( full text )
  • Bark-dwelling epiphyte communities in southwest Germany . Contributions to natural history research in Southwest Germany, 1962 Karlsruhe ( full text )
  • Otti Wilmanns u. Jochen Bammert: On the settlement of the Freiburg rubble - a balance sheet after twenty years . Reports of the Natural Research Society of Freiburg im Breisgau 55: 399-411. 1965 Freiburg. ( Full text )
  • Otti Wilmanns u. Sibylle Rupp: Silene rupestris, the rock catchfly, as a glacial relic in the Black Forest. Announcements of the Badisches Landesverein für Naturkunde und Naturschutz eV Freiburg i. Br. NF_9: 381-389. 1966 Freiburg. ( Full text )
  • Otti Wilmanns u. Rainer Bergfeld: Batrachospermum atrum (Huds.) Harv., A new red alga for southwest Germany. Announcements of the Badisches Landesverein für Naturkunde und Naturschutz eV Freiburg i. Br. NF_9: 477-479. 1967 Freiburg. ( Full text )
  • Otti Wilmanns, Kurt Rasbach u. Helga Rasbach: The Fern Plants of Central Europe: Shape, History, Habitat / Photography . Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1968, text: Otti Wilmanns
  • Otti Wilmanns & Volkmar Wirth: The lichen vegetation of the Wutach Gorge - notifications from the Badisches Landesverein für Naturkunde und Naturschutz eV Freiburg i. Br. - NF_9: 725 - 733. 1968 Freiburg. ( Full text )
  • Thoughts on the Scientific Value of Protected Areas , 1970 ( full text )
  • Related features in the flora and fauna of the Alps and the southern Black Forest - Yearbook of the Association for the Protection of Alpine Plants and Animals - 36_1971: 36 - 50. ( full text )
  • Günther Reichelt u. Otti Wilmanns: Vegetation Geography . Westermann, Braunschweig 1973
  • Otti Wilmanns, Helga Rasbach: Explanations on the map of areas in need of protection in the Kaiserstuhl . State Office for Nature Conservation u. Landscape conservation Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg 1973
  • Alpine botany in the area around the Freiburger Hütte above Dalaas, Vorarlberg , 1975
  • Changes of the Geranio-Allietum in the Kaiserstuhl vineyards? - Plant-sociological tables as documents - Contributions to natural history research in southwest Germany - 34: 429 - 443. 1975 Karlsruhe ( full text )
  • The interplay of observation, questioning and conclusion. On didactics and methods of botanical excursions , 1976 ( full text )
  • Distribution, sociology and history of the green alder (Ainus viridis (Chaix) DC.) In the Black Forest - communications of the floristic-sociological working group (old series) - NF_19-20: 323 - 341. 1977. ( full text )
  • Otti Wilmanns, A. Kratochwil u. F. Kämmer: Biotope mapping in Baden-Württemberg. - Beih. Publ. Nature Conservation Landscape Management Bad.-Württ. 11: 191-205. 1978 Karlsruhe.
  • Otti Wilmanns, Wolfhard Wimmenauer, Hansjörg Willhauck: The Badberg and Büchsenberg-Pfaffenlochberg nature trails . Black Forest Association , Freiburg 1978
  • The rise and fall of plant communities . Cramer, Vaduz 1979
  • Ed. with Reinhold Tüxen : Epharmonie . Cramer, Vaduz 1980
  • Otti Wilmanns u. Angelika Schwabe-Braun: Forest edge structures - role models for the design of hedges and small trees . Laufen special contributions and Laufen seminar contributions (LSB) 5_1982: 50-60. ( Full text )
  • with Anselm Kratochwil: Thoughts on biotope mapping in Baden-Württemberg. Procedure - what has been achieved - what is planned. - Series of publications of the German Council for Land Care 41 ("Integrated Protected Area System"): 55-68. 1983. Bonn-Bad Godesberg.
  • Lianas in Central European plant communities and their niche - Tuexenia - Communications of the Floristic-Sociological Working Group - NS_3: 343 - 358. 1983. ( full text )
  • with Arno Bogenrieder & Yukito Nakamura: Comparative studies of the Pinus-Krummholzes in the Japanese and European Alps - Tuexenia - Communications of the Floristic-Sociological Working Group - NS_5: 335-358. ( [1] )
  • Conservation . Mitt. Bath. National association Natural history u. Nature conservation NF 14 (2): 477-481. 1987 Freiburg im Breisgau. ( Full text )
  • On the connection between plant sociology and zoology in biocenology , 1987 ( full text )
  • Can dry grass currently survive despite immissions? A critical analysis of the xerobrometum in the Kaiserstuhl . carolinea 46: 5-16. Karlsruhe ( full text )
  • To use phytosociological data at zoozönologischen investigations . - Mid bath. National association Naturkd. Nature conservation NF 14, 547-556. 1988 Freiburg. ( Full text )
  • On the development of Trespenrasen in the last half century: insight, outlook, review, the example of the Kaiserstuhl. Düsseldorf 1989 ( full text )
  • Socialization and strategy types of plants of Central European vine cultures , 1989 ( full text )
  • The Kaiserstuhl: rocks and flora . 3., rework. Ed., Ulmer, Stuttgart 1989, text: Otti Wilmanns, photo: Helga Rasbach
  • The beeches and their habitats - reports of the Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft - 1:49 - 72nd 1989 ( full text )
  • Vineyard vegetation at the Steigerwald and a comparison with that in the Kaiserstuhl - Tuexenia - communications of the floristic-sociological working group - NS_10: 123 - 135. 1990 ( full text )
  • Otti Wilmanns & Arno Bogenrieder: The Geranio-Allietum in the Upper Alsatian Rebflur - Bauhinia 10: 99-114. 1992 ( full text )
  • Ericaceous dwarf shrubs as key species - reports of the Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft - 5: 91 - 112.1993 ( full text )
  • The nature of the vegetation in the Central Black Forest as an expression of the management history . Announcements of the Badisches Landesverein für Naturkunde und Naturschutz eV Freiburg i. Br. NF_16: 227-249 Freiburg 1995. ( full text )
  • A comparison of the textures of vineyard societies in Alsace and in southern France - Carolinea - Contributions to natural history research in southwest Germany - 53: 55 - 66. 1995 ( full text )
  • Ecological plant sociology: an introduction to the vegetation of Central Europe . 6., rework. Ed., Quelle & Meyer, Wiesbaden 1998 ( full text )
  • Vegetation colors - reports of the Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft - 11: 367-384. 1999 ( full text )
  • Lifestyle of the plants of the vineyards - Findings and thoughts on strategy and epharmony - Carolinea - Contributions to natural history research in Southwest Germany - 57: 9 - 18. 1999 Karlsruhe ( full text )
  • Black Forest excursion guide: an introduction to the landscape and vegetation with 45 hiking routes . Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001
  • Color characteristics of the Black Forest vegetation - with a comparative view of the Swabian Alb . Communications from the Baden Regional Association for Natural History and Nature Conservation NF 17: 793 - 826. 2001 ( full text)
  • Landscape ecology, flora and vegetation of the Swabian Alb - notifications of the Badisches Landesverein für Naturkunde und Naturschutz eV Freiburg i. Br. NF_18_2: 133-177. Freiburg 2003. ( full text )
  • Landscape and vegetation of the Swabian Alb in comparison with the Black Forest - Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of Baar 47: 83-98. Donaueschingen 2003
  • Angelika Kobel-Lamparski, Otti Wilmanns and Franz Lamparski: A young island in the Rhine near Neuchâtel - a study of the development of substrate and plant cover . Announcements of the Badisches Landesverein für Naturkunde und Naturschutz eV Freiburg i. Br. NF_18_3: 1-30. Freiburg 2004. ( full text )
  • Wolfhard Wimmenauer & Otti Wilmanns: New finds of lightning blasting and fulgurite formation in the Black Forest . Reports of the Natural Research Society of Freiburg i. Br. 94 (2004), pp. 1–22 ( full text )
  • With Miyawaki Akira hencho : Nihon-shokusei-shi . Shibundo, Tokyo (Japanese)
  • Cold-age relic plants of the Swabian Alb: updated considerations on the prehistoric landscape , 2005 ( full text )
  • On the landscape ecology of the Middle Black Forest - from Roman times to the early Middle Ages . In: Wolfgang Kleiber (Ed.): Tarodunum / Zarten - Brigobannis / Hüfingen. Celts, Gallo-Romans and early Alemanni in the Black Forest from an interdisciplinary perspective. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class (AM-GS) Volume 2009; therein pages 77-102.
  • Gallo-Roman settlers in the Black Forest? Landscape ecology in an interdisciplinary discourse with linguistic history and archeology - reports of the Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft - 21: 90-103. 2009. ( full text )
  • Change in vegetation in the Kaiserstuhl over the last few decades. Activity and inactivity of people shape the landscape. Alemann. Yearbook 2007/2008, volume 55/56: 77-97. Freiburg 2010.
  • The habitats and their vegetation. In: Regional Council Freiburg (Hrsg.): The Kaiserstuhl. Unique loess and volcanic landscape on the Upper Rhine, 131-240. Ostfildern 2011.
  • The natural spaces and their vegetation. In: Regional Council Freiburg (Hrsg.): The nature reserves in the administrative region of Freiburg. 3rd updated edition, 47-100. Ostfildern 2011.
  • Early settlers in the Black Forest. A landscape-ecological contribution to the interdisciplinary variety of methods. location.wald 47: 5-33. Freiburg 2012.
  • Plant life in the Wutach Gorge. In: Regional Council Freiburg (Hrsg.): Die Wutach. Wild waters - steep canyons, 130-177. Ostfildern 2014.
  • A shout from outside. Greetings . Ornithological annual books for Baden-Württemberg 31_SH: 14-25. 2015 ( full text )

literature

  • Arno Bogenrieder : Otti Wilmanns 70 years old. Freiburg University Gazette 37: 165-166. Freiburg 1998
  • Ulrich Deil: Laudation in honor of Prof. Dr. Otti Wilmanns, Freiburg, on the occasion of the 2003 Reinhold Tüxen Prize awarded by the city of Rinteln on May 9, 2003. Ber. d. Reinh.-Tüxen-Ges. 15: 13-22. Hanover 2003
  • Bärbel Häcker: 50 years of nature conservation history in Baden-Württemberg . 305 pages. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004 ISBN 3-8001-4472-7 (portrait pp. 272-273)
  • Thomas Ludemann: Professor Dr. Otti Wilmanns 90 years (with list of publications). location.wald 50: 202-210. ISSN  2196-2235 . Freiburg 2018 (can be downloaded here: http://www.geobotanik.uni-freiburg.de/news )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement from the University of Freiburg on the 85th birthday
  2. ^ Annual general meeting of the State Association for Natural History and Nature Conservation (BLNN); Retrieved September 25, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Wilmanns, Otti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilmanns, Ottilie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen