Walter Rieck (biologist)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Walter Rieck (born February 1, 1905 in Prenzlau / Uckermark , † November 12, 1990 in Hann. Münden ) was a German wildlife biologist and hunting scientist .

Life

Walter Rieck put the Abitur in the Uckermark from, studied in Berlin and Innsbruck and received his doctorate in 1932 with a thesis on the development of the oral cavity epithelium of Anura . Then he got an assistant position at the Institute for Hunting in Berlin-Zehlendorf . From 1936 to 1943 Rieck headed the professional hunter department in the Reich Hunting Office ; from 1937 he was also head of the Institute for Hunting of the Reich Association of German Hunters. This activity naturally ended in 1945. In 1939 he initiated the magazine for hunting customers , whose editor he remained until 1944.

In the second half of the 1930s, among other things, he carried out surveys on the time when fawns were set . According to his analysis of the dates of birth of 16,687 fawns within what was then the territory of the German Empire, 96% of all fawns are born in May or June; However, the investigation also revealed that the dates can be between the beginning of March and the beginning of September. Rieck published these numbers in 1955 in the magazine for hunting science .

A school mural on the topic of housefly dates from 1950 , designed by Walter Rieck and printed in Stuttgart . It is possible that Walter Rieck bridged the time between the end of the Third Reich and his employment at the university with the production of such teaching materials, among other things.

From 1950 Rieck worked at the Institute for Hunting Studies at the University of Göttingen , which he headed from 1968 to 1972, and from 1955 to 1972 he was editor of the Zeitschrift für Jagdwissenschaft . In 1968 he became a co-founder of the working group for wild biology and hunting research centers. Walter Rieck wrote numerous articles in specialist journals; In addition, together with Gerd von Lettow-Vorbeck, he created a reworking of Ferdinand von Raesfeld's work Das Rehwild . With Rudolf Wetzel he wrote the work Diseases of the Wild , which was published in 1962.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albrecht Milnik : In the service of the forest. Life paths and achievements of Brandenburg forest people. 145 biographies from three centuries , Kessel 2006, ISBN 978-3935638791 , p. 389
  2. ↑ Erhard Ueckermann : Prof. Dr. Walter Rieck on completion of the 75th year of life , in: Zeitschrift für Jagdwissenschaft 26, 1, 1980, p. 52 f.
  3. ↑ a b bio and bibliography at www.deutsches-jagd-lexikon.de
  4. ↑ Andreas David, When do the fawns come? , at www.wildundhund.de
  5. ^ Wall picture The housefly in the Saarland School Museum
personal data
SURNAME Rieck, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wildlife biologist and hunting scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Prenzlau
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1990
Place of death Hann. Münden