Willy Nolte

Willy Nolte (born November 2, 1906 in Kassel , † October 15, 2004 in Bad Pyrmont ) was a German biologist and fisheries council .

Life

Willy Nolte was born in Kassel in 1906. His youth in Sterbfritz , Rinteln , Bad Nenndorf and Hanover concluded in 1927 with the Abitur at the Oberrealschule am Clevertor in Hanover. He went to Göttingen to study at the Georg-August University to study biology, mathematics , physics and sport for teaching . In the same year he became a member of the Holzminda fraternity . From the third semester he switched to zoology , botany and geology , with the aim of going into applied biology. At some point he discovered his goal of fisheries research and fisheries management. He wrote his doctoral thesis on fish with Alfred Kühn . His doctorate took place in 1932. In 1934 he published a fraternity roll for the German fraternity .

His first professional station was the Prussian State Institute for Fisheries on Müggelsee in Berlin , where he worked as a volunteer assistant in the biological department. In April 1934 he got a job with the chief fisherman for the inland waters of the province of Pomerania in Stettin . There his task was to draw up a cadastre of over 1000 inland lakes in Pomerania . In 1935 he was commissioned to investigate the eel fishery in the Szczecin Lagoon from Świnoujście , the seat of the chief fisherman's office for coastal waters. In 1936, he went to the top inspector office after Pillau , where he of respect among other ruffe -Fisheries the Vistula Lagoon worked. In October 1936 he had to join the Navy , where he became a reserve officer candidate in 1937. In July 1937 he investigated the eel fishery on the coast of the island of Rügen . In 1938, from the chief fish master’s office in Kiel, he carried out legal investigations into the Lübeck Bay . At this time he met his future wife in Travemünde , whom he married in 1939. For a short time he was called up to the Navy in Plön and Kiel before he was transferred to Labiau in East Prussia . With the beginning of the Second World War , Nolte became a soldier with a coastal battery in Pillau. A year later he was appointed to the government fisheries council. At the same time he was appointed head of the Labiau Fisheries Office - the largest of its kind in Prussia . Shortly afterwards he served as a lieutenant in the navy at the Naval Fortress Command in Memel and at the same time took over the management of the Memel Fisheries Office. In the course of the war he was promoted to first lieutenant and was battery chief of flak batteries and later company chief of the headquarters company, received the War Merit Cross with Swords and at the same time a case by Gauleiter Koch for allegedly sabotaging the war economy in the fishing industry. In this trial he was acquitted. With the beginning of the Russian campaign he took part in the invasion of Lithuania , but was soon ordered back to Memel to oversee the fishery. From 1944 it was about the defense of Memel, which had to be given up in December 1944. As the oldest company commander and deputy department commander, Nolte had to ensure that the German troops could retreat across the Curonian Spit . As a rearguard, he himself did not reach Pillau until February 14, 1945, where, as port captain and head of the port protection fleet, he organized the escape of many East Prussians across the Baltic Sea. Last night he left Pillau with the last 21 boats to reach Hela . In the meantime Nolte was captain lieutenant and leader of the port security department at the Admiral Ostliche Ostsee and according to the orders he could sail with one of the last boats to Flensburg and Eckernförde two hours before the armistice .

He was released from brief captivity on June 29, 1945, as fishing was one of the professions important to nutrition. In Hanover, he began his post-war activity in a fisheries department of the Chamber of Agriculture until he was appointed head of the Fisheries Office of the State of Lower Saxony in Bremerhaven in 1949 . He was also involved in many international fisheries negotiations in Bonn , The Hague and London . He has published over 80 fisheries science and economics titles. From 1962 to 1972 he was chairman of the Association of German Fisheries Administration Officials and Fisheries Scientists. After his retirement, he moved with his wife from Bremerhaven to Bad Pyrmont in 1972, where he died in 2004 at the age of 97.

Awards

• 1972: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class for his exceptional commitment to the interests of fishing
• Honor ribbon and silver honor plate from the Holzminda fraternity

Publications (selection)

• Experimental investigations into the problem of the localization of the association in the fish brain. Dissertation . Göttingen 1932.
• as publisher: fraternity members trunk role. Directory of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934.
• Trial of statistics on inland fisheries, 1946–1948, in the area of ​​the Lower Saxony State Fisheries Association. A contribution to inland fisheries statistics. In: New archive for Lower Saxony. Journal for urban, regional and state development. 953, 7/9, pp. 332-350.
• 60 years of mussel fishing in East Frisia. In: New archive for Lower Saxony. Journal for urban, regional and state development. 1954, 1/3, pp. 31-48.
• The fishing conditions in the Outer Elbe and in the northern Wurster Watt. Hamburg 1973.
• 100 years of fishing in Hanover. 50 years of the Lower Saxony State Fisheries Association. Braunschweig 1973.
• Inshore fishing in the Weser-Elbe Wadden. In: New archive for Lower Saxony. Journal for urban, regional and state development. 1974, 2, pp. 122-132.
• Inshore fishing in Lower Saxony. Goettingen 1976.

literature

• Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . 17th July 1972.
• General fishery newspaper. Volume 24, 1972, p. 11.
• Hans-Hermann Rudolph (ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity Holzminda. Göttingen 2005, pp. 15-21.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German fraternity according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 353.