Peter Carstens (geneticist)
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
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Peter Carstens. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 5, 2015 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Carstens in the catalog of the German National Library
- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
personal data | |
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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 |