Ulrich Gerhardt (zoologist)

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Ulrich Gerhardt as a student (1893)

Ulrich Karl Friedrich Kurt Eduard Gerhardt (born October 11, 1875 in Würzburg , † June 8, 1950 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German zoologist .

Life

Ulrich Gerhardt was the son of the internist Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt and his wife Wanda, daughter of the government councilor Gustav von Barby. His brother was the pathologist Dietrich Gerhardt .

Gerhardt studied medicine and natural sciences in Heidelberg , Berlin and Strasbourg ( approved in 1898 ). In Heidelberg, Gerhardt joined the Leonensia student union . In 1899 he was in Berlin for doctor of medicine doctorate and was from 1901 to 1903 at the University of Breslau assistant at the Institute of Physiology. In 1903 he was awarded a doctorate there. PhD, his dissertation was called Morphological and Biological Studies on the Copulatory Organs of Mammals . Thanks to Willy Kükenthal , he then turned to zoology and became an assistant at the Institute for Zoology. He was for this subject in 1905 at the University of habilitation . The future journalist Hugo Reinhart , who received his doctorate from Kükenthal in 1907, heard lectures from him .

In 1911 Gerhardt was appointed professor in Breslau , worked as a battalion doctor in military hospitals during the First World War , became a non-civil servant professor in 1921 and received an extraordinary professorship the next year. In 1924 Gerhardt moved to the University of Halle as a full professor of anatomy and physiology of domestic animals . In 1932, he said he was a member of the German National Front for a short time.

During the time of National Socialism , at the request of a doctoral student, he became a supporting member of the SS from 1934 to 1939 “provided that this would result in no relations with the party or the SS”, and from 1934 to 1945 a member of the NSV. The NSDAP he was not a member. Gerhardt had been a member of the resistance group around Theodor Lieser since 1944 , whose members played a key role in the reconstruction of the University of Halle immediately after the war.

After the war he became a member of the LDP and was prorector for two years, although he had initially been retired due to old age. In 1946 he was reinstated as a full professor and director of the Institute for Anatomy and Physiology of Domestic Animals and as head of the veterinary clinic. In addition, he was acting head of the zoological institute, which showed no material damage after the Second World War, but a lack of qualified as well as denazified applicants. Gerhardt retired in 1948, but continued to give lectures on zoology. In May 1949 he became seriously ill and died in Halle in June 1950 at the age of 74.

Gerhardt belonged to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and excelled in the organization within the academy. He was also a board member of the German Zoological Society .

family

Gerhardt's maternal great-uncle Georg Friedrich Kolb and the great-grandfather of his wife Ludwig Giesebrecht were liberal members of the Paulskirche in Frankfurt . Admiral Henning von Holtzendorff was his wife's great-uncle. In 1904 Gerhardt married Renate, the daughter of the senior consistory president Kurt Zittelmann (1844–1913) and his wife Eva von Holtzendorff. The marriage came from the Slavic studies professor Dietrich Gerhardt and Eva-Maria, who married the Halle mathematics professor Heinrich Brandt . Renate Gerhardt died on April 28, 1936. Gerhardt married Renate Rauch on March 11, 1938. This marriage remained childless.

Act

Gerhardt dealt with the descriptive anatomy of the kidneys and genital organs of mammals. He also studied the sex biology of spiders and nudibranchs. He is regarded as the founder of a comparative systematic sexual biology of animals.

In addition to his biological work, Gerhardt pursued intensive Judaic studies throughout his life, which brought him to various countries in Eastern Europe and also to Palestine. They led to several partly posthumous publications.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hugo Reinhart's curriculum vitae . In: (From the Zoological Institute of the University of Breslau) About the finer structure of some Nephthyids . "Inaugural dissertation to obtain the doctorate of the high philosophical faculty of the Königl. University of Breslau submitted and published with their permission by Hugo Reinhart from Breslau ”, Verlag Gustav Fischer, Jena 1907, appendix
  2. ^ Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism: 1933 - 1945 . Hall: MDV, Mitteldt. Verl. 2002, p. 412. It is doubtful whether there was a party grouping under the name Deutsch-Nationale Front in 1932. The German National People's Party operated under this name in May 1933.
  3. ↑ Affidavit of May 18, 1947: University Archives of the University of Halle, PA No. 6599 U. Gerhardt
  4. ↑ Questionnaire and application for directive 24, May 18, 1947: ibid. - The claim made by Harry Waibel: Servants of many gentlemen: Former Nazi functionaries in the SBZ / GDR , 2011, p. 102, Gerhardt was a member of the NSDAP, cannot be verified either from the university files in Halle or from the files in the Berlin Document Center in the Federal Archives. Weibel himself does not provide any evidence for this statement - not in accordance with scientific standards.
  5. ^ Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism 1933-1945. 2002, p. 251
  6. ↑ on Theodor Lieser see Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism 1933-1945 , 2002, p. 424
  7. ↑ Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism 1933-1945 , 2002, p. 252f
  8. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 102.
  9. ^ Foreword to Jacob Levy: The Schächt question taking into account the new physiological research. Berlin 1927 (2nd edition 1929); Jewish life in the Jewish ritual - studies and observations 1902-1933. Edited and commented on by Zwi Sofer. Edited by Dietrich Gerhardt with the participation of Malwine and Peter Maser. Heidelberg, Lambert Schneider Verlag 1980 ISBN 3-7953-0850-X ; Peter Maser: Saved from oblivion: Ulrich Gerhardt's collection in the Berlin Museum. In: Tribüne: Journal for Understanding Judaism 26 (1987), Issue 102, ISSN  0041-2716 pp. 50-52.
personal data
SURNAME Gerhardt, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerhardt, Ulrich Karl Friedrich Kurt Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1950
Place of death Halle (Saale)