Walter Max Zimmerman

Walter Max Zimmermann ( born May 9, 1892 in Wallduern; † 30 June 1980 in Tübingen ) was a German biologist and botanist. His botanical author abbreviation is " W. Zimm. ".

Life

1910 Zimmermann began the study of natural sciences at the University of Karlsruhe, from 1911 he studied at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1912 he moved to the Friedrich- Wilhelm University in Berlin and at the University of Munich. In Munich, he heard, among other lectures of Richard Hertwig, Karl von Frisch, Gustav Hegi and Otto Renner. From 1913 and after his military service he was again enrolled at the University of Freiburg. Influential teachers were there Franz Theodor Doflein and Alfred Kühn and later his doctor father Friedrich Oltmanns.

From 1925, Zimmermann was a lecturer at the University of Tübingen and in 1929 associate professor.

In the era of National Socialism, he belonged since 1934 to the NS - Teachers' Association. In 1938 he published the first version of his 1969 revised book inheritance of acquired characteristics ' and selection. Zimmermann advocated the Nuremberg Laws racist and advocated sterilization. Besides being a high school teacher, he became a reporter for phylogeny in the journal Biologist, which was taken over by the SS - Ahnenerbe 1939.

1954 Zimmermann became the director of the Institute of Applied Botany in Tübingen. He became professor emeritus in 1960.

Besides his duties at the university and was a carpenter from 1946, the State Commissioner for nature conservation and landscape management in the former country Württemberg-Hohenzollern, and from 1952 district commissioner for Nature Conservation in the district of South Württemberg -Hohenzollern.

Zimmermann's main field of research was the phylogeny of plants. He is the founder of telome theory with which he describes the phylogeny of the three primary organ systems ( root, stem axis and leaf ) articulated higher land plants.

Honors

  • Honorary Member of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna
  • Honorary Member of the Association of German Biologists
  • Serge - of - Bubnoff Medal of the Geological Society of the GDR ( 1961)
  • Federal Cross of Merit, First Class (1962 )
  • Medal of Merit of the State of Baden -Württemberg ( 1978)

Writings

  • Inheritance " of acquired traits " and Elite. 2nd edition. In 1969.
  • The phylogeny of plants., 1930.
  • History of plants. In 1949.
  • Evolution. The story of their problems and findings. ( Orbis Academicus Volume II / 3 ) Publisher Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1953. ISBN 3-495-44108-5.
  • The phylogeny of plants. 2nd edition. In 1959.
  • Dieter with Peter Baur: The Federseemuseum. In 1961.
  • The telome theory. In 1965.
  • Evolution and natural philosophy. In 1968.
  • Evolución vegetal. In 1976.
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