Reiner Feldmann

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Reiner Feldmann on an excursion to the Academy for Ecological Research in 2006
Poster put up publicly by students in Menden at the Walram-Gymnasium on the occasion of Dr. Feldmann's 50th birthday

Publisher Reiner Feldmann (born February 22, 1933 in Brunnen Monastery ; † October 6, 2014 in Menden ) was a German biologist and university professor.

Life

Reiner Feldmann's father was a teacher at the Brunnen monastery when he was born. In 1934 the family moved to Bösperde , where the father became vice principal . Feldmann attended the Walram grammar school in Menden in the Sauerland . After graduating from high school, he studied German , geography and pedagogy at the University of Münster and Innsbruck . Zoology and botany were part of the canon of subjects. As a student in Münster he became an active member of the Catholic student association Cimbria in the KV , to which he remained lifelong.

In 1958 he passed the first state examination. 1958 to 1960 followed his legal clerkship at the Märkisches Gymnasium in Iserlohn and attendance at the study seminar in Bochum . 1960 exams in German, biology and geography. From 1960 to 1963 teacher at the municipal high school in Dortmund. In 1962, he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. at the Geographical Institute in Münster with the grade magna cum laude .

After his assessor exam, he worked as a teacher at Walram-Gymnasium from 1963 to 1984. 1970 Appointment as Director of Studies and Head of Department. In 1984 he was the head of the school inspectorate at the school council in Münster. In 1985 he was appointed government school director of the Arnsberg district government. From 1982 teaching positions for ecology at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . His habilitation took place in 1986. From 1991 honorary professor at the University of Wuppertal. He retired in 1995.

Feldmann was married and had two sons. He was buried in Bösperde , his lifelong place of residence.

voluntary work

Feldmann was nature conservation officer at the Iserlohn district from 1968 to 1975 . From 1973 he was involved in the Rotary Club of Menden. Since it was founded in 1975, he was a member of the landscape advisory board of the Märkischer Kreis . 1975 founding member and board member, at times also deputy chairman, of the working group for biological-ecological state research , later renamed the Academy for ecological state research . From 1976 to 1985 he was a member of the landscape advisory board of the higher landscape authority of the Arnsberg district government and later deputy chairman of the advisory board. In 1978 he founded the working group amphibians and reptiles in Westphalia . In 1978 he was appointed to the Geographical Commission for Westphalia at the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association .  

He was an employee of the natural history and nature conservation department in the Westphalian Heimatbund . Feldmann was also involved in the Catholic parish of St. Maria Magdalena and in the museum association of the Menden Museum .

As one of the first conservationists, he campaigned for the protection of secondary habitats such as military training areas, subsidence, mine tunnels, water dams, quarries and other excavations. He was one of the first initiators for small water protection in Germany. A successful project for the creation of small bodies of water can be traced back to him in NRW.

Publications

At the age of 19 he published the first scientific article The population of swallows in the northern Sauerland and their decline in the journal Natur und Heimat (NRW) in 1952 . He wrote a total of over 260 publications, including ten books. In it he published his own research results. The research concerned the fields of faunistics , animal geography and ecology . He first carried out research on birds and bats. Later also on amphibians, reptiles, mollusks, insects and other animal groups.

In 1971 he published one of the first papers on the subject of amphibians and landscape protection in German-speaking countries. Together with Georg Mieders, a first biotope cadastre for the Iserlohn district was published in 1973 . In 1976 he brought out the first red list for amphibians and reptiles in Westphalia . He was a key co-author of the first Red Lists of other species groups in North Rhine-Westphalia and Germany.

He was editor of the two standard works The Amphibians and Reptiles of Westphalia (1981) and The mammals of Westphalia (1984). 1969 one of several editors at Avifauna von Westfalen .

Awards

The 75th volume of the treatises from the Westphalian Museum of Natural History was dedicated to Reiner Feldmann on his 80th birthday as a commemorative publication. In the commemorative publication he was referred to as a "rubber boot biologist" who stood for scientific field work.

Fonts

  • Winter quarters of the fire salamander "Salamandra salamandra terrestris" Lacépede, 1788. In: Mining tunnels of southern Westphalia. In: Salamandra. Rheinbach 1967, 3, ISSN  0036-3375 , pp. 1-3.
  • About vocalizations of native tailed amphibians. In: Natur u. Homeland. Münster 28.1968, ISSN  0028-0593 , pp. 49-51.
  • with: Reiner Klewen : Feuersalamander. In: R. Feldmann (Ed.): The amphibians and reptiles of Westphalia. In: Treatises from the Westphalian Museum for Natural History. Münster 43.1981, 4, 30-44.
  • Field studies on Westphalian populations of the fire salamander, "Salamandra salamandra terrestris" Lacépede, 1788. In: Dortmunder Contributions to Regional Studies Dortmund 5.1971, ISSN  0340-3947 , pp. 37–44.
  • Wildlife in the South Westphalian mountainous region. Kreuztal, 1974.
  • with Rüdiger Schröpfer, Henning Vierhaus: The mammals of Westphalia. Westfälische Vereindruckerei Münster, 1984, pp. 269–271.
  • Wintering, local loyalty and age of the fire salamander, "Salamandra salamandra terrestris". Final report of a long-term study. In: Jahrbuch Feldherpetologie. Cologne 1.1987, ISSN  0933-4068 , pp. 33-44.
  • The Lüerwald. (21st contribution to regional studies of the Hönnetal). Menden 1999, ISSN  0176-1986 .
  • Bell ponds, bell ponds and midwife toads. Sauerland No. 2/2000, pp. 75-77.
  • with Michael Bußmann: Animals from the south immigrate to Westphalia - witnesses or harbingers of climate change? . In: Geographical Commission for Westphalia, I / 2001, Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe p. 7.
  • A humpback pasture on the Spreiberg near Arnsberg-Neheim - On the genesis and structure of a large colony of the yellow meadow ant, Lasius flavus. In: Natur und Heimat 72/2012. P. 8.
  • with Rüdiger Eßmann, Raimund Kinold, Heinz-Rüdiger Lülff, Jutta Lülff: 100 years of the parish of St. Maria Magdalena Menden Bösperde 1912-2012 , published by the Catholic parish of St. Maria Magdalena

Web links

Commons : Reiner Feldmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz-Otto Rehage, Henning Vierhaus: Obituary for Reiner Feldmann. Natur und Heimat, 75/1, pp. 37–39.
  2. ↑ Prof. Reiner Feldmann has passed away , in: Der Westen online from October 8, 2014, accessed on October 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Martin Schlüpmann: Prof. Dr. Reiner Feldmann - Westphalian, field biologist and initiator of the protection of native amphibians and reptiles: February 22, 1933 - October 6, 2014. Rana H. 16, pp. 4-8.
  4. ↑ a b c A big son of the city of Menden , in: Der Westen online from February 22, 2013, accessed on October 14, 2014
  5. ↑ a b Federal Cross of Merit for Dr. Reiner Feldmann , In: Sauerland. Journal of the Sauerländer Heimatbund, No. 3 / September 1986, ISSN  0177-8110 , p. 102.
  6. ^ Club and membership directory of Rotarians in the Federal Republic of Germany 2002/2003
  7. ^ Heinz-Otto Rehage, Henning Vierhaus: Obituary for Reiner Feldmann . Natur und Heimat, 75/1, pp. 37–39.
  8. ^ Richard Pott: Professor Dr. Reiner Feldmann on his 80th birthday - a laudatory speech : Treatises from the Westphalian Museum of Natural History, 2013/75, 7-14.
  9. ↑ Bernd von Bülow: Reiner Feldmann, an enthusiastic rubber boot biologist: Treatises from the Westphalian Museum of Natural History, 2013/75, 203-205.
personal data
SURNAME Feldmann, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Monastery fountain
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2014
Place of death Menden