Wilhelm Schäperclaus

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The grave of Wilhelm Schäperclaus and his wife Luise in the Friedrichshagen cemetery in Berlin.
Information board in Peitz

Wilhelm Schäperclaus (born July 10, 1899 in Hagen ; † January 3, 1995 in Berlin ) was a German fisheries scientist and professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Prussian State Institute for Fisheries in Berlin-Friedrichshagen.

Life

He was the son of the philosophy professor and school graduate Eduard Schäperclaus . After graduating from high school in Hagen in 1917, he was drafted into military service in the First World War. In 1918 he was taken prisoner by the British . After returning home in 1920 he began studying mathematics and natural sciences in Münster and Munich . It was 1924 when Hans Helmuth Wundsch with a thesis on the respiration of lower aquatic animals doctorate .

In 1927 he qualified as a professor for applied zoology and fish farming with a work on the red epidemic of the eel at the Eberswalde Forestry University (HSE). During the Second World War Wilhelm Schäperclaus administered various fishing institutes in Eastern Europe, but also kept his chair in Eberswalde. In 1942 he joined the NSDAP . In 1951 he published his discovery of the causative agent of velvet disease . In 1952 he was appointed professor of fish disease and pond management at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

His research was mainly in the areas of nutrition, breeding, pathology and toxicology of farmed fish and the management of lakes and ponds. In doing so, he founded modern inland fishing . In 1957 he became a member of the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences .

In 1959, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

Publications (selection)

  • Studies on the metabolism, in particular the breathing of lower aquatic animals, in: Zeitschrift für Fischerei 23, 1925, pp. 167-280
  • The red epidemic of the eel in the district of Rügen and Stralsund, ibid. 25, 1927, pp. 99–128
  • Textbook of pond management, 1933, 4th edition 1998
  • Fischkrankheiten, 1934, 5th edition 1990
  • Management of inland lakes with carp, 1949
  • Ground plan of the pond farm, 1949

literature

  • W. Steffens, in: Zeitschrift für Fischerei, NF 17, 1969, pp. 7–31 (W-Verz., P)
  • ders., in: Journal for Inland Fisheries of the GDR 26, 1979, p. 163 f. (W-delay, P)
  • ders., in: Fischer and Teichwirt 48, 1997, pp. 194-200; Who was who GDR
  • Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk:  Schäperclaus, Wilhelm . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk : Spirit in the service of power. University policy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945 to 1961 . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-296-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Höxtermann, Ekkehard:  Schäperclaus, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 524 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 282.
  3. ↑ Ruediger Spangenberg: oodinium infestation (Oodinose). In: Claus Schaefer, Torsten Schröer (Hrsg.): The large lexicon of aquaristics. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-7497-9 , p. 720.
  4. ^ State award for distinguished personalities , In: Neues Deutschland , August 13, 1959, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Schäperclaus, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fisheries scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1995
Place of death Berlin