Werner Magnus

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Jewish cemetery Schönhauser Allee - Magnus grave

Werner Magnus (born December 22, 1876 in Berlin ; † August 3, 1942 there ) was a German botanist .

Life

Werner Magnus was the son of Rudolf Isidor Magnus and his wife Anna, née Dahlheim. Meyer Magnus (1805–1883), the manufacturer and chairman of the council of the Jewish community in Berlin, was his grandfather. The botanist Paul Wilhelm Magnus was his uncle.

Werner Magnus studied botany and was awarded a Dr. phil. did his doctorate and habilitation in 1903 at the Agricultural University in Berlin. From 1906 he also taught as a private lecturer at the University of Berlin. In 1914 he was one of the signatories of the declaration of university teachers of the German Empire . In 1921 he was appointed non-civil servant associate professor of botany at the Agricultural University Berlin and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin .

On December 13, 1913, Werner Magnus was elected member ( matriculation no. 3358 ) of the Leopoldina . On November 30, 1938, membership was canceled due to his Jewish origin. In 1918 Magnus was briefly a member of the national liberal German People's Party .

Magnus was a Protestant denomination, but this did not prevent him from having his teaching license withdrawn as a " full Jew " after the National Socialists came to power in 1933 .

Werner Magnus often spent his holidays in Oberhof and left for himself and his wife Lucie Charlotte Magnus, born in Vienna, who was one of the best golfers in Germany at the time, in Oberhof in the years 1923/24 right on the edge of the golf course ("Herzoglicher Golfclub Oberhof" ) build a "summer house". In September 1939 Werner Magnus (the “Jew Magnus” ) was terminated by the mayor of Oberhof ( who was also the local group leader of the NSDAP ).

When he was on the deportation went to pick up, Werner Magnus committed in 1942 on August 3 suicide .

He was a lifelong friend of the nursery owner Hellmut Späth , who was murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1945 .

Werner Magnus was buried according to his wishes in a grave on the grave site of his grandparents in the Jewish cemetery Schönhauser Allee . Three people attended his funeral. The monumental grave monument designed by Hermann von der Hude and Julius Hennicke is still preserved today.

Fonts

  • Studies on the endotrophic mycorrhiza of Neottia nidus avis L. Inaugural dissertation, University of Bonn, Borntraeger, Leipzig 1900
  • About the formation of the hat mushrooms . Friedländer, Berlin 1906 ( digitized version )
  • with Hans Friedenthal : An Experimental Evidence of Natural Relationship in Plants . In: Reports of the German Botanical Society, 24, 1906, pp. 601–607 ( digitized version )
  • The atypical embryonic development of the Podostemaceae . In: Flora or Allgemeine Botanische Zeitung, 105, 3, 1913, pp. 275–336 ( digitized version )
  • The formation of the plant galls is caused by Hymenoptera . Fischer, Jena 1914

literature

  • Jacob Jacobson : The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809-1851. With additions for the years 1791–1809 . De Gruyter 1962, ISBN 3-11-000448-8 , pp. 237-238
  • Sven Kinas: Victims of National Socialism among the scientists at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . In: Michael Grüttner u. a .: History of the University of Unter den Linden. Volume 2: The Berlin University between the World Wars 1918–1945 , edited by Heinz-Elmar Tenorth , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2012, p. 563.
  • Albert Wangerin (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 49th issue. On commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1913, p. 105 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Declaration by the university professors of the German Reich (PDF; 2.4 MB)
  2. ↑ See Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1931, Col. 1832
  3. ↑ See Sybille Gerstengarbe, Jens Thiel, Rüdiger vom Bruch : The Leopoldina. The German Academy of Natural Scientists between the Empire and the former GDR, Berlin 2016, p. 535.
  4. ↑ Cf. Sven Kinas: Victims of National Socialism among the scientists at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . In: Michael Grüttner u. a .: History of the University of Unter den Linden. Volume 2: The Berlin University between the World Wars 1918–1945, Berlin 2012, p. 563.
personal data
SURNAME Magnus, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1942
Place of death Berlin