Richard Finke

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Richard Finke (born August 27, 1908 in Schlichtingsheim near Glogau , † April 28, 2007 in Oberviechtach ) was a German painter, hunter and behavioral scientist.

Finke studied in Berlin and then worked as a high school teacher, initially in Bad Karlshafen . His drawings and oil paintings appeared in publications such as the Ostdeutsche Monatshefte , dem Schlesier , dem Türmer .

By his own admission, Finke was a hunter himself for 54 years. He succeeded in gaining the trust of a wild boar rot which he accompanied from 1959 to 1966; Heinz Sielmann called this a "sensation". Finke then became an opponent of hunting. He published his research results in specialist magazines and later described his experiences in an autobiographical text. Finke's pictures of hunting motifs were published by the Deutsche Jägerzeitung , Wild und Hund und Stalk , among others . Because of his research on wild boars, Konrad Lorenz nicknamed him Keiler hc

Similarly, in the 1970s, Heinz Meynhardt managed to accompany a pack over several years and to research their behavior. As early as 1967, Heinz Gundlach submitted his dissertation in Göttingen on the behavior of wild boars, which was also based on field observations. As a behavioral researcher, however, in contrast to Finke, he avoided feeding the animals and coming into close contact, even if his observations in game enclosures exploited an habituation to humans.

Finke lived in Oberviechtach from 1974 until his death.

Awards

Works

  • At the touch of the cloth and bristles. Diary of the "boar hc". With a foreword by Heinz Sielmann. Forstner, Oberviechtach 1998, ISBN 3-00-003614-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Monika Bugl: Professor Richard Finke died at the age of 98 - up close and personal with wild boars. Found a paradise in nature. Onetz . May 15, 2007, accessed December 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ Gertraud Portner: Little known: Professor Richard Finke (96) as a portrait painter - picture gallery in the living room. "Damn fine observed". Onetz . September 4, 2004, accessed December 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Publications in "Türmer" and "Pirsch" , Onetz, September 4, 2004.
  4. ↑ Interview with Richard Finke. In: Freedom for animals , special issue nature without hunting , p. 32 ( PDF ).
  5. ^ Gertraud Portner: Sielmann and Lorenz appreciated the research work. Seven years as a boar . Onetz, January 6, 2007.
  6. ^ A b Professor Richard Finke (98) is the oldest citizen of Eisenbarth-Stadt. Phenomenal Memory , Onet, August 29, 2006.
  7. ↑ Dagmar Schmauks: Friendship between unequal. Cognitive and semiotic aspects in texts about human-animal relationships , in: Sigrun Kanitscheider, Oliver Bender, Alfred K. Treml (eds.): Equality and inequality, symmetry and asymmetry. Appearance and course forms, function and consequences in nature and culture. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2013, p. 172 f.
  8. ↑ Dagmar Schmauks, p. 172
  9. ↑ Heinz Meynhardt, Wild Boar Report. Four years among wild boars, Leipzig, Radebeul: Neumann Verlag, 1978
personal data
SURNAME Finke, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, hunter and behavioral scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlichtingsheim near Glogau
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2007
Place of death Oberviechtach