Heck, Lutz

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Name
Heck, Lutz Gender: M
Ludwig Georg Heinrich Heck
born on 23 April 1892 at 07:00 (= 07:00 AM )
Place Berlin, Germany, 52n29, 13e21
Timezone LMT m13e21 (is local mean time)
Data source
BC/BR in hand
Rodden Rating AA
Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data s_su.18.svg s_taucol.18.svg 03°32' s_mo.18.svg s_piscol.18.svg 12°20 Asc.s_gemcol.18.svg 21°24'



Lutz Heck (bust in Berlin zoo)
photo: OTFW, Berlin, license gfdl

Biography

German zoologist, animal researcher, animal book author and director of the Berlin Zoological Garden where he succeeded his father in 1932. A member of the Nazi party from 1937, he was a close hunting friend of Hermann Göring, and worked under him. One of his projects was the reconstruction of extinct animals such as the aurochs through cross-breeding of various modern breeds which he thought had parts of the original genetic heritage. Heck cattle and Heck horses are named for the resulting animal breeds.

Lutz was the third child of Margarete and Ludwig Heck (1860–1951), director of Berlin Zoo from 1888 to 1931. Lutz took over as director of Berlin Zoo in 1932 but before that he worked with his brother Heinz Heck who became director (in 1928) of the largest zoological garden in southern Germany, Tierpark Hellabrunn in Munich.

Lutz Heck died at age 90 on 6 April 1983 in Wiesbaden, West Germany.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

  • has other family relationship with Keller, Regula (born 31 July 1894). Notes: Siblings-in-law

Events

Source Notes

Birth certificate in hand from Sy Scholfield, copy on file.

Categories

  • Family : Childhood : Family noted
  • Family : Childhood : Sibling circumstances
  • Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 90)
  • Vocation : Education : Researcher
  • Vocation : Politics : Nazi party
  • Vocation : Science : Biology (Zoologist)
  • Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
  • Vocation : Misc. : Animal Breeder/Trainer