Wilhelm Mielck

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Wilhelm Walter Otto Mielck (born November 24, 1879 in Hamburg , † October 5, 1933 on Heligoland ) was a German marine biologist.

Life

Wilhelm Mielck attended the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg and the large city school Wismar . After graduating from high school, he began to study biology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1903 he was reciprocated in the Corps Hercynia Göttingen . As an inactive , he moved to the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 1906/07 he was assistant to Karl Brandt at the Institute for Marine Research in Kiel , where he received his Dr. phil. received his doctorate. From 1907 to 1910 he worked as an assistant at the Royal Biological Institute in Helgoland . In 1910 he was appointed custodian for sea fishing, succeeding Ernst Ehrenbaum . He led numerous scientific research voyages, including the voyage of the research vessel Poseidon in the Barents Sea in 1913 . In the First World War he took part as captain of the reserve and adjutant to the commandant of Heligoland.

Wilhelm Mielck was appointed professor in 1918. In 1921 he was appointed director of the Prussian State Biological Institute on Helgoland as the successor to Friedrich Heincke , with whom he prevented the closure of the institute on Heligoland and its relocation to the mainland during the German inflation from 1914 to 1923 . Under his leadership, the institution was reorganized and a modern new building was built in 1925.

Mielck researched and published on plankton , spawning , fish and fisheries and carried out research on the protection of sea birds. On behalf of the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Matters , he was the editor of the journal Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen , Helgoland department. He was a member of the German Scientific Commission for Marine Research at the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture . Germany's re-entry into the International Marine Scientific Commission (IWK) is seen as a merit of Mielck. He was Germany's 2nd delegate to the Central Committee for International Marine Research, a member of the German Zoological Society and the Hamburg Natural Science Association.

As a member of the German People's Party , the last months of his life were marked by political disputes with the acting mayor of Helgoland Carl Meunier and the head of the science department of the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art and Education Theodor Vahlen .

Familiar

Wilhelm Mielck came from a Hamburg pharmacist family. His uncle was the pharmacist and Low German linguist Wilhelm Hildemar Mielck . In 1908 Wilhelm Mielck married Helene Gidion (1883–1977). The couple had a son.

Honors

Wilhelm-Mielck-Haus, BAH / AWI guest house on Helgoland

Fonts

  • Pacific acanthometrics , 1907
  • Pharmacognostic-chemical analysis of the Javanese lacquer resin "Gala-Gala" , 1908
  • The spawning conditions of plaice and flounder , 1909
  • Quantitative investigations on the plankton of the German North Sea cruise in February and May 1906 , 1911
  • An investigation voyage of the German research steamer "Poseidon" to the Barents Sea (White Sea) in June and July 1913 , 1914
  • Investigations on North Sea Protists
  • Fish fry and plankton studies on the travel research steamer "Poseidon" in the Baltic Sea, May-June 1931

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corp lists 1960, 43/119.
  2. ^ Wilhelm-Mielck-Haus, Helgoland
personal data
SURNAME Mielck, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mielck, Wilhelm Walter Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marine biologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1933
Place of death Heligoland