Theodor Schmucker

Theodor Schmucker (born May 5, 1894 in Munich , † June 21, 1970 in Göttingen ) was a German natural and forest scientist who emerged primarily as a forest botanist . His botanical author abbreviation is " Schmucker ".

Schmucker studied natural sciences with the subjects biology , chemistry and geography at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He was particularly interested in botany and worked as an assistant at the Botanical Institute. After the state examination in the three subjects in 1921 and the state examination for the higher school subject in 1922, he was in 1923 with the thesis The biology and morphology geophiler plants at Munich University doctorate . From 1927 he was a private lecturer in Göttingen.

From 1937 to 1962 he held the chair for forest botany and technical mycology at the forestry faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in Hann. Münden and director of the local institute for forest botany and forest plant breeding, as it has been called since 1953.

Schmucker introduced the genetic direction into forest botany in Germany. In 1947 he held lectures on forest plant breeding in the German-speaking region for the first time.

In 1956 he was elected President of the German Botanical Society .

Fonts

• Endemisms and character plants from Crete , Jena 1930
• History of Biology , 1936
• The tree species of the northern mixed zone , 1942

literature

• Zoltán Rozsnyay, Frank Kropp: Theodor Schmucker . In this: Lower Saxony Forest Biography. A source volume. From the forest (1998): Messages from the Lower Saxony State Forest Administration (Issue 51). Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests (MELF), Wolfenbüttel 1998. pp. 396–399.

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Theodor Schmucker at the IPNI