Paul Schulze (zoologist)

Paul (Leopold Ernst) Schulze (born November 20, 1887 in Berlin ; † May 13, 1949 in Rostock ) was a German zoologist and rector of the University of Rostock.

Life

Paul Schulze was born the son of a master needle maker and was baptized as a Protestant. After studying natural sciences in Berlin, he became an assistant at the Zoological Institute of the University of Berlin in 1910 . In 1911 he received his doctorate there. During the First World War he served as an armored soldier in several places, but was spared from the front because of a confirmed heart defect. Back in Berlin, he completed his habilitation there in 1918. In 1922 he was appointed a non-civil servant associate professor. In 1923 he was able to obtain a full professorship for zoology at the University of Rostock , which he held until 1945. In 1931/32 he was dean of the philosophy faculty there, and from December 1932 to March 1936 rector of the University of Rostock. He had been chairman of the National Socialist Teachers' Association (NSLB) at his home university since 1933, and in 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP . In 1945 Schulze was dismissed from all offices.

literature

• Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. A biographical lexicon. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11775-6 , pp. 374–376 (with photo).
• 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 , pp. 156–157.
• AA Guglielmone, TN Petney, M. Mastropaolo, RG Robbins. Genera, subgenera, species and subspecies of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) described, named, renamed or given new rank by Paul Schulze (1887–1949) and their current status , Zootaxa, 2017, 4325 (1): 1–33. Abstract .

Web links

• Literature about Paul Schulze in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Paul Schulze in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium