German ss officer and botanist (1915-1991).
Heinz Brücher (14 January 1915 – 17 December 1991) was a botanist and plant breeder who served as a member of the special science unit in the SS Ahnenerbe in Nazi Germany. He was part of a SS Sammelkommando that raided the plant genome material and seed collections of the Soviet Union. After the Second World War, Brücher moved to South America and worked as a professor of botany in Argentina and other countries in South America. He served as an advisor to UNESCO on biology.
Abbreviations: Brücher
Occupations: university teacher, scientific collector, politician, botanist, geneticist, botanical collector
Citizenships: Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, German Empire, Argentina
Languages: Spanish, German
Dates: 1915-01-14T00:00:00Z – 1991-12-17T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Darmstadt
Direct attributions: 1 plant, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 2 plants, 0 fungi