Rolf Dircksen

Rolf Dircksen (born November 25, 1907 in Wremen near Bremerhaven , † November 26, 1983 in Enger ) was a full professor of biology (focus on ornithology ) at Bielefeld University .

Career

After graduating from high school, Rolf Dircksen studied biology and geography in Rostock , Tübingen and Kiel . In 1932 he received his doctorate with a doctoral thesis on the biology of oystercatchers, sandwich terns and arctic terns under Adolf Remane in Kiel, the work was printed in the Journal für Ornithologie .

After a legal traineeship in Münster in 1935, he got a position as a study assessor in Enger and taught there until 1938 when he received a call to the college for teacher training in Kiel. After the end of the war he returned to Enger as a teacher at the secondary school in 1947.

1957 began a new phase of his professional activity when he was appointed professor for didactics of biology at the Pedagogical Academy in Bielefeld . The academy was first transferred to the University of Education and later to the University of Bielefeld. Dircksen taught there until his retirement in 1976.

Rolf Dircksen died in Enger in 1983, where a secondary school was named after him.

Publications

Dircksen published a large number of scientific and popular books mainly on ornithology . With an "ornithological morning hike" blackbird, thrush, finch and star , based on his bird excursions, he also had a record release with Ariola .

swell

• German Ornithologists Society (DO-G), Journal of Ornithology, Volume 125, Issue 2, 259-260

literature

• Jens Dircksen: Three Wremer personalities from three centuries . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 798 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven June 2016, p. 4 ( digital version [PDF; 5.8 MB ; accessed on July 27, 2019]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Rolf Dircksen in the catalog of the German National Library