Reinhold Conrad Muschler

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Reinhold Conrad Muschler (also: Reinhold Muschler , Reno Muschler ; born August 9, 1882 in Berlin ; † December 10, 1957 there ) was a German botanist and writer .

Life

Reinhold Conrad Muschler was the son of a Bavarian chamber singer . After visiting a high school in Berlin, he traveled extensively in Europe and Africa and began a study of botany . From 1902 to 1906, Muschler spent the winter in Egypt because of a tuberculosis disease . There he made the acquaintance of the botanists Georg Schweinfurth and Paul Ascherson , who inspired him to study the flora of Egypt. Muschler studied at Berlin University with Adolf Engler ; In 1907 he received his doctorate in philosophy .

He then worked as a scientific assistant at the Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem . Between 1906 and 1914 he published numerous works on botany, in which he described ten new genera and 380 new species . His main work was the work A manual flora of Egypt published in 1912 . This work caused a scandal after its publication, as Muschler was confronted with allegations of fraud by his botanist colleagues Georg Schweinfurth and Adolf Engler. A trial against Muschler was broken off because the accused was ill; however, Muschler gave up his activity in Berlin-Dahlem in 1913.

Muschler stayed in Egypt during the First World War . After returning to Germany , he lived in Berlin from 1919 as a freelance writer and music critic . Muschler had been a staunch National Socialist since the 1920s and was a member of the NSDAP from 1932 to 1937 . In 1933 he divorced his Jewish wife. After the National Socialist seizure of power , he published several works in which he expressed his enthusiasm for Adolf Hitler and the new regime, including above all the youth book Adolf Hitler our Führer in 1933 and the German Führer book in 1934 ; Both works were on the list of literature to be sorted out in 1946 in the Soviet zone . Since 1914 a genus of the composites has been given the botanical name "Muschleria".

Reinhold Conrad Muschler's fiction work , created since the 1920s, includes novels , stories and biographies . His novel The Unknown , published in 1934, was extremely successful , in which the author tells the fictional life story of the " Unknown from the Seine " and of which more than 400,000 copies were sold in the 1930s .

Reinhold Conrad Muschler died in Berlin in 1957 at the age of 75. His grave is in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery in Berlin-Nikolassee . Muschler's estate is kept in the archive of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

Works

  • Systematic and plant-geographical classification of the African Senecio species , Leipzig 1908 (under the name Reinhold Muschler)
  • Phanerogams , Leipzig 1909 (under the name Reno Muschler, together with Ernst Gilg)
  • A manual flora of Egypt , Berlin (under the name Reno Muschler)
    • 1 (1912)
    • 2 (1912)
  • Travel sketches from Lower Egypt , Mainz 1915
  • Douglas Webb , Leipzig 1921
  • The laughing death , Leipzig 1922
  • Bianca Maria , Leipzig 1924
  • Comedy of Life , Ludwigsburg 1924
  • Richard Strauss , Hildesheim 1924
  • Ferdinand Staeger , Leipzig 1925
  • Frederick the Great , Leipzig 1925
  • The Heilandin , Leipzig 1925
  • The way without a goal , Leipzig 1926
  • Basil Brunin , Leipzig 1928
  • Island of Youth , Leipzig 1930
  • Philipp zu Eulenburg , Leipzig 1930
  • The princess in the sun , Berlin 1930
  • Ferdinand Staeger's art , Augsburg 1931
  • Adolf Hitler our leader , Cologne 1933
  • A German way , Leipzig 1933
  • Klaus Schöpfer , Berlin 1933
  • Love in Monte , Berlin 1933
  • The dancer Jehudi , Berlin 1933
  • The German Fuehrerbuch , Berlin 1934
  • Flirtation and love , Berlin 1934
  • Sites of German consecration , Berlin 1934
  • The unknown , Wuppertal 1934
  • The violinist , Berlin 1935
  • Nefertiti , Berlin 1935
  • Seeker and tempter , Leipzig 1935
  • Escape to his homeland , Berlin 1936
  • Ivola , Dresden 1936
  • The world is full of wonders , Dresden 1936
  • Birth of Venus , Berlin 1937
  • Diana Beata , Berlin 1938
  • The House of Wishes , Düsseldorf 1948
  • Journey into the spring , Vienna [u. a.] 1950
  • Rescue into Life , Vienna [a. a.] 1951
  • Confessions , Vienna [u. a.] 1952
  • Venetian legend , Vienna [a. a.] 1952
  • Stranger of Time , Vienna [a. a.] 1953
  • Santa Caecilia , Vienna [u. a.] 1953
  • Those who live on the edge , Vienna [u. a.] 1954
  • Guest on Earth , Vienna [a. a.] 1955
  • In the network of time , Vienna [u. a.] 1956

Editing

literature

  • Theodor Walter Elbertzhagen (Ed.): Letters about Reinhold Conrad Muschler , Leipzig 1929
  • Hans-Martin Pleßke: He who loves people , Vienna [u. a.] 1957

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See how RC Muschler became a National Socialist . In: Joseph Wulf : Literature and Poetry in the Third Reich. A documentation. Gütersloh: Mohn, 1963. P. 98ff.
  2. ↑ Reinhold Conrad Muschler . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1948 ( online - March 13, 1948 ).
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 637.
personal data
SURNAME Muschler, Reinhold Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muschler, Reinhold; Muschler, Reno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1957
Place of death Berlin