Joachim Hämmerling

August Wilhelm Joachim Hammerling 3rd ( born March 9, 1901 in Berlin, † August 5, 1980 in Wilhelmshaven ) was a German botanist and university professor.

Hämmerling studied from 1920 to 1924 Biology at the University of Berlin, for a short time at the University of Marburg. His teachers in Berlin were Gottlieb Haberlandt ( Botany ) and Max Hartmann (Zoology ). In 1924, he became the Dr. phil. doctorate. From 1924 to 1940 Hämmerling was initially a research assistant ( with Max Hartmann) at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin- Dahlem, from 1931 lecturer.

In 1940 he became director of the German - Italian Institute of Marine Biology Rovinj d'Istria, from 1942 to 1945 he was adjunct professor of marine biology at the University of Berlin. In 1946 he became head of the department of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Langenargen on Lake Constance. From 1949 to 1970 served as director Hämmerling the Max Planck Institute for Marine Biology (from 1968 for Cell Biology) in Wilhelmshaven.

Hämmerling worked among other things on the Schirmalge Acetabularia. In 1970 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.