Otto Huebschle

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Otto JB Hübschle (born October 9, 1945 in Radolfzell on Lake Constance , † July 16, 2008 in Paris ) was a German-Namibian specialist veterinarian , virologist and head of the Namibian veterinary authority.

Origin and family

Hübschle was a son of Otto Eduard Hübschle (1906–1948), member of the government in the Radolfzell Agricultural Office on Lake Constance.

On September 22nd, 1973 he married the Namibian politician Michaela Hübschle , née Kuntze. He had two children with her, including director Tim Huebschle .

Live and act

Hübschle studied veterinary medicine at the University of Munich and the University of Zurich . In 1970 he received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service and continued his studies at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute in Pretoria, South Africa . He graduated as a veterinarian majoring in virus research and worked at this institute for several years. During his studies in Pretoria he also got to know his wife, the Namibian farmer's daughter and later politician Michaela Kuntze. In 1976, the couple moved to Tübingen , where Hübschle worked at the Federal Research Center for Virus Diseases in Animals (BFAV) , among other things, with foot and mouth disease and obtained his doctorate as a specialist in microbiology and serology .

After completing his studies, Hübschle worked on various projects in Madagascar and Kenya , and as a consultant for the European Union . In 1983 he got a job as Vice Director of the Central Veterinary Laboratory (CVL) in Windhoek . Under his leadership, new research areas were added and the laboratory developed into an internationally recognized research institute. As a researcher, he also wrote numerous scientific articles during this time. In 2006 he was appointed head of the Namibian veterinary authorities ( Directorate of Veterinary Services ), one of eight directorates of the Namibian Ministry of Agriculture , appointed and sat down especially for the eradication of foot-and-mouth disease and different here lung diseases in Namibian wildlife and livestock and This enabled the farmers to have broader access to international markets.

In 2008, Hübschle participated as Chief Veterinary Officer at the annual congress of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in Paris. During that event he was admitted to a Paris hospital with heart problems and died of heart failure on July 16, 2008. The funeral service took place on July 25, 2008 in the Christ Church in Windhoek. The Namibian Ministry of Agriculture, the journal Veterenaria Italiana , of which he was a member of the scientific advisory body , and the Namibian RDP party , of which his wife is a politician, wrote an obituary acknowledging Hübschle's “groundbreaking scientific work” and calling him an “advocate of justice and peace ”.

Works

  • A study of the application and factors affecting plaque assay of bluetongue virus . Pretoria 1975, OCLC 123576541 (English).
  • Virus aerosols, a contribution to collection and preservation in liquids . Munich 1978, DNB  801281121 , OCLC 256385705 .
  • Exotic viral diseases of ruminants. I. Bluetongue (bluetongue disease) . In: Veterinary survey . 34th year. Terra Verlag, Konstanz 1979, p. 243-253 .
  • Exotic viral diseases of ruminants. II. Rift Valley Fever . In: Veterinary survey . 38th year. Terra Verlag, Konstanz 1983, p. 268-273 .
  • Animal Diseases in Africa - The Importance of Veterinary Research in Controlling Them . In: German Evangelical Lutheran Church in South West Africa (DELKSWA) (Ed.): Afrikanischer Heimatkalender 1987 . Windhoek 1987, OCLC 5339690 , p. 67-69 .
  • Rabies in the Kudu Antelope (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) . In: Reviews of Infectious Diseases . tape 10 , Supplement 4, November – December. Chicago 1988, OCLC 4098788 , p. 629-633 , JSTOR : 4454707 (English).
  • Otto Hübschle, R. Lelli, J. Frey, Robin Nicholas: Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and vaccine strain T1 / 44 . In: The Veterinary Record . tape 150 , no. 19 . British Veterinary Association, London May 11, 2002, p. 615 (English).
  • Otto Hübschle, Kevin Godinho, T. Rowan, Robin Nicholas: Danofloxacin treatment of cattle affected by CBPP . In: The Veterinary Record . tape 155 , no. 13 . British Veterinary Association, London September 25, 2004, p. 403 (English).
  • Karen Mansfield, Lorraine McElhinney, Otto Hübschle, Felix Mettler, Claude Sabeta, Louis H. Nel, Anthony R. Fooks: A molecular epidemiological study of rabies epizootics in kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) in Namibia . In: Veterinary Research . tape 2 , no. 2 . BioMed Central , January 13, 2006, OCLC 795980725 , doi : 10.1186 / 1746-6148-2-2 (English).
  • Otto Hübschle, Ortwin Aschenborn, Kevin Godinho, Robin Nicholas: Control of CBPP - a role for antibiotics? In: The Veterinary Record . tape 159 , no. 14 . British Veterinary Association, London September 30, 2006, pp. 464 , doi : 10.1136 / vr.159.14.464-b (English).
  • Massimo Scacchia, F. Sacchini, G. Filipponi, M. Luciani, R. Lelli, Georgina Tjipura-Zaire, A. di Provvido, A. Shiningwane, F. Ndiipanda, A. Pini, V. Caporale, Otto JB Hübschle: Clinical , humoral and IFNgamma responses of cattle to infection with Mycoplasma mycoides var. mycoides small colony and attempts to condition the pathogenesis of the infection . In: Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research . tape 74 , no. 3 . Pretoria September 13, 2007, p. 251–263 , doi : 10.4102 / ojvr.v74i3.128 (English).
  • Carl Hamsten, Georgina Tjipura-Zaire, Laura McAuliffe, Otto JB Hübschle, Massimo Scacchia, Roger D. Ayling, Anja Persson: Protein-specific analysis of humoral immune responses in a clinical trial for vaccines against contagious bovine pleuropneumonia . In: American Society for Microbiology (Ed.): Clinical and Vaccine Immunology (CVI) . tape 17 , no. 5 . Washington, DC 2010, p. 853-861 , doi : 10.1128 / CVI.00019-10 (English).
  • Massimo Scacchia, Georgina Tjipura-Zaire, R. Lelli, F. Sacchini, Otto JB Hübschle, A. Pini: Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia: infection by intubation versus exposure to infected animals, comparative study on disease outcome . In: Veterenaria Italiana . tape 47, 4/2011 . Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale "(IZSAM), Teramo 2011, p. 407-413 (English).

literature

  • In memoriam Otto JB Hübschle, Chief Veterinary Officer, Namibia . In: Veterenaria Italiana . tape 44, 3/2008 . Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale "(IZSAM), Teramo 2008, p. 559 (English, IZSAM (PDF) [accessed on February 23, 2015]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GND 125968213
  2. ↑ Dr. Otto Hübschle died. Head of the veterinary authority succumbs to heart disease - first expressions of grief . In: Allgemeine Zeitung . Namibia Media Holdings, Windhoek July 17, 2008 ( az.com.na [accessed February 23, 2015]).
  3. ↑ John Ekongo: Country Pays Tribute to Hübschle . In: New Era . New Era Publications, Windhoek July 28, 2008 (English, allafrica.com [accessed February 23, 2015]).
  4. ↑ Roudiens vir Otto Hübschle . In: Republikein . Namibia Media Holdings, Windhoek July 21, 2008 (Afrikaans, republikein.com.na [accessed February 23, 2015]).
personal data
SURNAME Hübschle, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hübschle, Otto JB
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Namibian specialist veterinarian and virologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Radolfzell on Lake Constance
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2008
Place of death Paris