Otto Mattes

Otto Mattes (born December 12, 1897 in Kreuznach , † November 10, 1975 in Marburg ) was a German zoologist and professor at the University of Marburg .

Life

Mattes served as Vice Sergeant in the Reserve during World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross . He participated in the fighting of the Marburg Student Freikorps in 1920 as a group leader. He completed his habilitation in zoology in 1929 and became an assistant at the Zoological Institute at the University of Marburg in 1932. In the fall of 1933 (until 1934) he became the leader of the teaching body in Marburg , which all non-civil servants and assistants had to join and the university lecturers who were civil servants could join voluntarily. In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . In 1934 Mattes received an unpaid teaching position in genetics and in 1935 was ao. Professor. He was a training officer in the Nazi teachers' association and since November 1933 a member of the SA . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . In the Second World War he served again as an officer. His specialty was parasites .

In the 1950s and 1960s Mattes was again employed as a department head in the Zoological Institute at the University of Marburg and as a lecturer.

literature

• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 114.
• Anne Christine Nagel (Ed.): The Philipps University of Marburg under National Socialism: Documents about its history , Stuttgart 2000, p. 51.