Rudolf Genschel

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Rudolf Genschel (born March 30, 1891 in Kassel , † August 5, 1972 in Hanover ) was a German biologist.

Life

After graduating from high school, Genschel studied biology in Göttingen and Marburg and passed his state examination for higher education at the age of 23 . During the First World War he suffered a serious hip injury and was disabled for life. After the war he worked as a teacher. He joined the educational reform movement of Hermann Lietz and worked at the boarding school in Tübingen. After his marriage he moved to Berlin-Köpenick as a teacher. There he got involved with the Social Democrats, supported the pacifists , the nature conservation movement and the Blue Cross members . After the outbreak of the Second World War , he was drafted into the weather service and so survived the Nazi era . After the war, in 1946 Genschel became professor for didactics of biology at the Hanover Department of the Lower Saxony University of Education (today Department of Education II at the University of Hanover).

Free-spirited action

On November 11, 1946, the German Monist Federation was re-established in Munich under the name "Deutscher Monistenbund für Scientific Weltanschauung and ethical culture". At the Federal Assembly of 1956 it was agreed to rename it to "Freigeistige Aktion - Deutscher Monisten-Bund" with Genschel as 1st chairman. The association magazine was the “Freigeistigen Aktion”, whose editor from 1957 to 1963 was Rudolf Genschel.

Publications

  • Organic thinking and biology classes. In: The Biologist. Volume 2, 1932/33, pp. 257-261.
  • Charles Darwin: man between faith and Knowledge , Knowledge and Responsibility Publishing House, Göttingen 1959
  • Add. with Ernst Haenssler Science without a conscience? : A discussion with d. latest beech v. Pascual Jordan "The failed uprising" , Verlag für Geistesfreiheit, Hanover 1957

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On Genschel's role as a biologist (PDF; 268 kB)
  2. ↑ History of Biology Didactics in Hanover, page 3 ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.biodidaktik.uni-hannover.de
personal data
SURNAME Genschel, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1972
Place of death Hanover