Peter Carstens (geneticist)

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Peter Carstens (born September 13, 1903 in Brunsbüttel , † January 1945 in Posen , Poland ) was a German animal breeding geneticist and SS- Oberführer (since 1944).

Life

The son of a teacher studied from 1924 to 1927 at the Agricultural University in Hohenheim . From 1928 to 1934 he was an assistant at the animal breeding institute in Hohenheim. Carstens became a member of the NSDAP in 1930 . From 1930 to 1933 he was also a member of the SA . In 1930 he received his doctorate in Hohenheim. In 1933 Carstens transferred from the SA to the SS. The habilitation followed in 1934 . In 1934 he became a professor for animal breeding at the Agricultural University in Hohenheim and was rector there from 1935 to 1938. In 1935 he became leader of the race and settlement main office . In 1940/41 he was part of the Poznan Settlement Staff and in 1941 he was appointed rector of the University of Poznan , on April 20, 1941, at the same time appointed SS-Standartenführer , promoted to SS-Oberführer in 1945 (with effect from 1944). In 1942 he was called up and handed over the office of the rectorate to Walter Geisler . In 1944 he was part of the leadership of the Nazi lecturers' association . He died in January 1945 during a battle in the Battle of Poznan .

Carstens was elected as its corresponding member in 1941, circumventing the election regulations of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • Research into the structure of leading herds of high cattle in Württemberg (1931)
  • Race comparison investigations on the dog skeleton (1933)
  • Livestock keeping and feeding (with A. Werner 1935)

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 , pp. 34-35.
  • Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich - Who Was What Before and After 1945 , Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition: June 2007, p. 90.
  • Ernst Klein (edit.): The academic teachers of the University of Hohenheim (Agricultural University) 1818–1968 , Stuttgart 1968, p. 56 f.
  • Helmut Wilhelm Schaller: The University of Posen 1941-1945 , Peter Land, Frankfurt am Main 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hohenheim's directors, rectors and presidents ( memento of the original from March 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / uniarchiv.uni-hohenheim.de
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Peter Carstens. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 5, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Carstens, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animal breeding geneticist and SS-Oberführer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Brunsbuettel
DATE OF DEATH January 1945
Place of death Poses