Wolfgang Kolbe

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Wolfgang Kolbe (born March 24, 1929 in Putzar near Anklam in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ; † March 18, 2000 in Wuppertal ) was a German entomologist specializing in beetles .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in Pasewalk in 1948 , Kolbe studied biology and chemistry at the Berlin-East University of Education. In 1956 he went to Sprockhövel and continued his studies at the Pedagogical Academy in Wuppertal . After working as a teacher, he received a teaching position for biology at the Wuppertal University of Education in 1961 , later supplemented by a teaching position at the Siegerland University of Education . At the same time, he began studying biology at the University of Cologne in the summer of 1961 , which he completed with a doctorate in 1965 .

In January 1969, Kolbe took over the management of the Natural Science and City History Museum in Wuppertal, which was renamed the Fuhlrott Museum in 1973 - after the discoverer of the Neanderthal man . He headed this museum for 25 years until his retirement in 1994. During this time he expanded the museum, set up an ecological collection of the beetles of North Rhine-Westphalia there with the working group of Rhenish coleopterologists and carried out ecological research - especially the beetle fauna - of the beetles Staatsforstes Burgholz , in which there is a nature trail named after him.

Memberships and honors

  • Founding member of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology (DgaaE) and Deputy Chairman from 1986 to 1988.
  • Deputy Chairman (1988 to 1994) in the Natural History Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia .
  • Member of the Advisory Board (1984 to 1989 and 1994 to 2000) and temporarily Vice Chairman of the Working Group of Rhenish Coleopterologists
  • Board member of the Natural Science Association Wuppertal
  • Second chairman of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology
  • First chairman of the Association of Rhenish Museums .
  • Member of the Board of Trustees for the award of the Fabricius and Meigen Medals of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology
  • Representative on the advisory board of the higher landscape authority at the government president in Düsseldorf
  • Member of the advisory board of the Entomofaunistische Gesellschaft Dresden
  • In 1998, Kolbe was honored with the Rhineland thaler for his services to researching the local fauna .

Publications

  • W. Kolbe: Experimental studies on the formation of epidermal cysts in vitro and in the subcutaneous connective tissue of Urodele larvae . Inaugural dissertation, University of Cologne 1964, 1–52, 29 Fig.
  • W. Kolbe: Aspects of biology teaching - immediacy and penetration in: Heinrich, J. & Schmitz, G. & Schallenberger, EH (Hrsg.) 1968: Contributions to subject didactics (Ratingen) 4, 1–92
  • W. Kolbe (Hrsg.): The Bergische Wald - habitat for plants, animals and people, presented using the example of the Burgholz state forest in Wuppertal and Solingen. Observing and getting to know nature, Bergisches Land, Volume 7. Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-87093-044-6
  • Kolbe published more than 150 articles on very different topics, including the analysis of the cultivation of foreign tree species on the beetle fauna using the example of the Burgholz state forest.
    A bibliography of his publications can be found in the literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ F. Koehler Wolfgang Kolbe and the Beetles , Mitt. Arbeitsgem. Rhine. Coleopterologen (2001), 11 (1): 3-28

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personal data
SURNAME Kolbe, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Putzar
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 2000
Place of death Wuppertal