Rudolf Mansfeld, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rudolf Mansfeld

German botanist

Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1901

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1960

Profession: botanist

Nationality: Germany, German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Rudolf Mansfeld (17 January 1901, Berlin – 1960) was a German botanist and agricultural scientist. For more than twenty years, he worked as a curator at the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem.
Here he specialized in studies of Orchidaceae (orchids) and Euphorbiaceae (spurges).
Following World War II, by way of a request from agriculturalist Hans Stubbe (1902-1989), he accepted a position as a laboratory technician at the Gatersleben Institute.
In 1949 he succeeded Werner Rothmaler (1908-1962) as departmental director.
During his last ten years at Gatersleben, he was in charge of the department of systematics.