Theo Eckardt

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Theo Eckardt (born October 10, 1910 in Treuchtlingen , † January 20, 1977 in Berlin ) was a German botanist .

Life

The son of a senior postmaster was trained in schools in Weißenburg in Bavaria and Nuremberg . In 1930 he passed his Abitur and studied natural sciences, especially botany , at the universities of Munich and Halle . At the botanical institute in Halle he was employed as a scientific assistant in 1935 and in 1937 with the dissertation investigations on morphology, development history and systematic importance of the pseudomonomic gynecium. summa cum laude for Doctor of Science doctorate . He then acted as an unscheduled assistant, and finally as a scheduled assistant from 1939. He had been a member of the SA since 1933 and joined the NSDAP in 1937 .

After Eckardt had passed his examination for higher teaching post in 1939, he completed his habilitation the following year in Halle and was employed as a lecturer . In 1940 he was also included in an artillery unit, where he was soon promoted to lieutenant . In May 1944 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, and in July 1944 he joined the Association of German Officers as part of the NKFD . After its dissolution, he was a member of the Antifascist Association of German Prisoners of War and taught at an Antifa school .

He later became a teacher, and finally returned to Germany in 1949. That year he was appointed biology lecturer in Halle.

In 1950, Eckardt became a professor with a teaching position at the University of Potsdam . Two years later he was given the full teaching position. In the 1950s to 1970s he researched the anatomy of species in the genus Microtea . In 1955 he moved to the Free University of Berlin as an adjunct professor . Appointed full professor in 1959, he has been director of the Botanical Garden since 1964 , and since 1971 also the position of director of the Botanical Museum. In the last months of his life he focused more on the morphological problems of Ruscus hypophyllum and Semele androgyna .

Publications (selection)

  • (Ed. with Wilhelm Troll ): The vegetation conditions of the Gipsberge in Kyffhäuser and in the southern Harz foreland. A contribution to the steppe heath question , treatises of the Botanical Association of Central Germany, Volume 2 1939, Halle ad Saale and Berlin, printing house of the orphanage 1939

literature

  • Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters . Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2011 ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1
  • Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 408f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Johannes Gerloff , Jürgen Damboldt, Werner Odenbach, Volkmar Denckmann , Hildegard Strübing, Karl Lenz, Reinhard Bickerich, Paul Hiepko: Prof. Dr. Theo Eckardt (1910-1977) . In: Willdenowia . Volume 8, Issue 2, 1978, pp. 219-233 (JSTOR) .
  2. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 74.
  3. ↑ see http://www.bgbm.org/sites/default/files/documents/2010_01_08_Microteaceae.pdf , accessed on August 6, 2015
  4. ↑ In 1965 Eckardt is listed as director in a report on the Botanical Museum and the Botanical Garden; see: http://www.bgbm.org/sites/default/files/documents/3995318.pdf , accessed on August 6, 2015
  5. ↑ see: Catalog of Dt. National Library under the heading 'Wilhelm Troll'; also Wiki article 'Wilhelm Troll'
personal data
SURNAME Eckardt, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Treuchtlingen
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1977
Place of death Berlin