Werner Lindenbein

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Werner Lindenbein (born February 17, 1902 in Quedlinburg , † December 20, 1987 in Ahrweiler ) was a German agricultural botanist and seed researcher . From 1953 he taught at the Institute for Seed Studies at the Hohenheim Agricultural University .

Live and act

Werner Lindenbein studied natural sciences at the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau from 1921 and received his doctorate in 1927 from the University of Kiel with a dissertation in the field of cell biology (cytology). He then took on an assistant position at the Institute for Agricultural Botany at the Agricultural University of Bonn-Poppelsdorf . In 1936 he completed his habilitation there with the thesis " Anatomical contributions to the knowledge of degeneration and necrosis in cultivated plants and their importance for agriculture ". In 1941 he was appointed associate professor for applied botany at the University of Posen .

After 1945 Lindenberg first worked in a Quedlinburg seed company . In 1953 he accepted a position as director of the Institute for seeds customer and director of State Institute for seed testing at the Agricultural University of Hohenheim . In 1959 he was appointed associate professor and in 1963 full professor . Until his retirement in 1967 he represented the field of semenology in Hohenheim.

Lindenbein's research interests were particularly in seed diagnostics and the determination of the origin of seeds . He has published many of his works in the magazine "Saatgut-Wirtschaft", the technical part of which he was editorially responsible for for many years. His treatises on the history of the development of seed testing in Germany are noteworthy in terms of scientific history. Lindenbein was a long-standing member of the board of directors of the “Specialist Group on Seeds” of the “ Association of German Agricultural Investigations and Research Institutes ”.

Werner Lindenbein was a member of the Corps Germania Hohenheim .

His nephew Bernhard Lindenbein (1932–2012) was a professor at the Meteorological Institute of the Free University of Berlin from 1971 to 2004 .

Main publications

  • Contribution to the cytology of the Charales . Diss. Phil. Univ. Kiel 1927. - Zugl. in: Planta Vol. 4, 1927, pp. 437-466.
  • Anatomical contributions to the knowledge of degeneration and necrosis in cultivated plants and their importance for agriculture . Habil.-Schr. Univ. Bonn 1936. - Zugl. in: Angewandte Botany Vol. 19, 1937, pp. 313-367.
  • Center of origin, culture flow dissemination and individual migration of cultivated Andropogon species . In: Engler's Botanisches Jahrbuch Vol. 71, 1940, pp. 337–374.
  • On the history of the development of the germ test . In: Landwirtschaftliche Forschung, special issue 11, 1958, pp. 68–74.
  • Germination-physiological problems with special consideration of the biochemical germ test . In: Saatgut-Wirtschaft Vol. 12, 1960, pp. 308-312.
  • Thoughts on a uniform terminology in semen testing . In: Saatgut-Wirtschaft Vol. 14, 1962, pp. 277–279.
  • History of semen science from the very beginning to the establishment of the semen test by Friedrich Nobbe . In: Saatgut-Wirtschaft - SAFA Vol. 21, 1969, pp. 561-567.

literature

  • Werner Lindenbein . In: The academic teachers of the University of Hohenheim (Agricultural University) 1818–1968. Edited by Ernst Klein. Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, Series B, Research Vol. 45, 1968, p. 90.
  • Professor Dr. W. Lindenbein 75 years . In: Saatgut-Wirtschaft - SAFA Vol. 29, 1977, p. 82 (with picture).
  • Professor Dr. Werner Lindenbein turns 80 . In: Ahrweiler Nachrichten Vol. 33, 1982, pp. 216-217 (with picture).
  • AM Steiner: Johann Werner Lindenbein, botanist : In: Biographical Lexicon for the history of plant breeding. Edited by Gerhard Röbbelen. 3rd episode = lectures for plant breeding booklet 66, 2004, pp. 115–116 (with picture).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of the Corps Germania Hohenheim . In: Die Wachenburg - Messages from the Weinheim Seniors' Convent , 36th year, 1988, issue 2, p. 52
personal data
SURNAME Lindenbein, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural botanist, seed researcher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1987
Place of death Ahrweiler