Werner Bavendamm

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Werner Hermann Theodor Bavendamm (born November 27, 1898 in Berlin ; † October 21, 1981 in Reinbek near Hamburg ) was a German botanist and mycologist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Bavendamm ". He is regarded as the " Nestor of his trade", who focused on wood pathology and wood protection . Bavendamm gave its name to the Bavendamm reaction .

Life

Origin, military service and studies

Werner Bavendamm was born in 1898 as the son of the government official Emil Bavendamm and his wife Louise, b. Biljes, born. He had an older brother, Hans Bavendamm , who would later become an agricultural functionary.

Werner passed his Abitur at the Luisengymnasium Berlin and did military service in the First World War in 1917/18 . From 1919 he studied natural sciences at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin and was there in 1923 with the thesis About Ecology, physiology and systematics of colorless and red sulfur bacteria of fresh and salt water to Dr. phil. PhD.

Scientific activity in the Weimar Republic

In 1923 he went as a microbiologist to Sorau ( Niederlausitz ), to the German Research Institute for Bast Fibers , in 1925 as assistant to Ernst Münch at the Forest Botanical Institute of the Tharandt Forest University of Applied Sciences near Dresden, where in 1928 he dealt with the subject of the recognition, detection and culture of wood-discolouring and wood-decomposing Pilze qualified as a professor (a standard work on wood pathology) and then became a private lecturer in botany at the tree and wood diseases department. He turned down calls to the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover and the Technical University of Aachen . In 1925 he took over some lectures from Bruno Löffler , who dealt with morphology . In 1929 the forestry college was incorporated into the TU Dresden .

In 1930 Bavendamm was invited to the United States by Princeton University and Rutgers University with financial support from the Emergency Association of German Science . During this time he went on a microbiological research trip to the Bahamas .

Professorship in the time of National Socialism

Since 1932 he was a member of the NSDAP and in November 1933 he signed the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state at the German universities and colleges .

From 1934 to 1945 he was a non-scheduled associate professor for applied botany ( microbiology , plant pathology , forest botany and wood protection ) and from 1935 deputy director of the forest botanical institute of the TH Dresden.

In 1941 Bavendamm did military service again.

Denazification and professorship in the Federal Republic

In August 1945 he was dismissed from university as part of the denazification process . After the Second World War , he therefore initially worked scientifically in mushroom cultivation .

In 1947 he came to the Federal Institute for Forestry and Wood Management in Reinbek near Hamburg. In 1950 he became acting head of the wood biology and wood protection department and, in 1951, an adjunct professor for forest botany and applied mycology at the University of Hamburg . He supervised a total of six doctoral students. He retired in 1963.

For research purposes, he traveled to the African continent for several months in the 1960s .

Its official botanical author's abbreviation was " Bavendamm ". Papers appeared on the topics of microbiology, phytopathology , forest botany, wood pathology and wood protection, approx. 140 publications. He was also a member of various working committees of the German Society for Wood Research (DGfH) in Munich and the examination committee for wood preservatives.

family

Bavendamm was a Protestant denomination, married to Ingeborg Boden and the father of three children, including the historian and publicist Dirk Bavendamm (* 1938). He last lived in Reinbek near Hamburg.

Bavendamm reaction

The Bavendamm reaction , a method for distinguishing between brown and white rot pathogens, has received international recognition.

Fonts (selection)

Below is a selection of Bravendamm's publications:

  • Culture of the bacteria involved in the sulfur cycle. In: Emil Abderhalden : Handbook of biological working methods , Dept. XII, Part 2, 1934, pp. 483-546.
  • How do I differentiate edible mushrooms from poisonous and bitter mushrooms? Identification key for the reliable identification of 10 families, 40 genera and 120 species (= leaflets of the Reichsinstitut für Forst- und Holzwirtschaft, No. 7), Verlagvertrieb für Forst- und Holzwirtschaft, Hamburg 1948.
  • with Hans Schmidt: The wooden drill shells or teredinids. Your way of life, harmfulness and control , Kröger, Hamburg 1948.
  • Microscopic recognition and determination of wood-dwelling and wood-decomposing fungi. In: Hugo Freund: Handbuch der Mikoskopie in der Technik , 1951, pp. 819–843.
  • Natural durability of the wood against termite damage. In: Hans Schmidt: Handbuch der Termitenkunde , 1953, pp. 245-306.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiebecke, C., Professor Bavendamm †, in: Forstarchiv, vol. 52, issue 6 (Nov./ Dec. 1981), p. 232; Willeitner, H., Professor Dr. Werner Bavendamm †, in: Holz-Zentralblatt, No. 136 (November 13, 1981), p. 2090
  2. ↑ a b c Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who . 17th edition, Societas, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-7973-0241-X , p. 54.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Dorit Petschel: 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin, Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 70.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Günther Seehann: Werner Bavendamm in memoriam . In: Holzforschung 36 (1982) 1, p. 52.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Walther Killy (Hrsg.): German biographical encyclopedia . Volume 1: Aachen – Boguslawski . KG Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-23160-1 , p. 355.
  6. ↑ Reiner Pommerin: 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 1: History of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin, Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02303-5 , p. 172.
personal data
SURNAME Bavendamm, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bavendamm, Werner Hermann Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1981
Place of death Reinbek near Hamburg