Caesar-Rudolf Boettger

Life

Boettger grew up in Frankfurt am Main. After high school he studied zoology at the University of Bonn. In 1908, he became active in the Corps Guestphalia. In the winter semester 1909/10 he moved to the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University, Wroclaw. During his studies he was one-year volunteer in the Field Artillery Regiment No. 6 ( German Reich) and the Active Corps Silesia.

In 1912 he received his PhD in Bonn and then went to 1914 on a research trip to Africa and the Orient. The material thus obtained later led to his book on Africa's pets. The beginning of an academic career was prevented by the outbreak of the First World War, where he was employed in France and in Turkey.

After the war he worked in the Ministry of Defense in the Department of Conservation and gas produced alongside his habilitation thesis. In 1932 he was habilitated as Privatdozent of Zoology at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin and appointed there in 1938 as professor of zoology. With the outbreak of the Second World War, he was transferred to the Army Gas Protection School in Celle and promoted to colonel.

In the postwar period Boettger was initially unemployed, but was appointed in 1947 as full professor at the Department of Zoology at the Technical University of Braunschweig. In this role, he established the Natural History Museum of the University.

After his retirement in 1956 Boettger made ​​five expeditions of six to 12 months to North America, Hawaii and Mexico. In 1965 he was Visiting Curator at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and in old age still 1967/68 participants in a research project of the Naval Medical Field Research Laboratory in North Carolina.

Honors

  • Bronze Medal of the University of Helsinki
  • Cretzschmar Medal of the Senckenberg Nature Research Society in Frankfurt am Main

Works

Boettger wrote in addition to his books, over 220 journal and textbook contributions.

  • The land snail fauna of the Aru and Kei Islands. ( Proceedings of the Senckenberg Nature Research Society, Volume 338 ), Frankfurt am Main, 1922.
  • The subterranean molluscan fauna of Belgium. Brussels 1939.
  • The tribes of the animal kingdom in its systematic structure. Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1952.
  • The domestic animals of Africa. VEB G. Fischer, Jena 1958.
  • Origin and development of the 200th Staatl. Natural History Museum at Brunswick. Appelhans, Braunschweig 1954.
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