S
choller
: Vorwort/Preface
11
in Hohenheim and Karlsruhe. At Karlsruhe Uni-
versity (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) there
are three research groups which partly, and three
which only study fungi. The latter are integrated
in the faculty of chemistry and biosciences and
are supervised by the professors N
atalia
R
e
-
quena
, R
einhard
F
ischer
and J
örg
K
ämper
. They
apply molecular biological methods exclusive.
Considering that there are further mycologists
at the Max Rubner-Institut (Federal Research
Institute of Nutrition and Food), at the Agricultu-
ral Technology Centre Augustenberg, and at the
State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe can
be regarded as a centre of scientific mycology
in Germany. There are mycologists in further in-
stitutions in Baden-Württemberg, such as forest
science and viticulture institutes, hospitals and
other medical facilities.
But you would by no means do justice to the his-
tory of mycology in Baden-Württemberg, when
considering professional mycology only. In fact,
many mushroom friends and amateur research-
ers in Baden-Württemberg have performed as-
tonishing results. Already in the first part of the
twentieth century, there were many competent
honorary mushroom advisers with a good know
ledge of species, who explained edible and poi-
sonous mushrooms to starving people in times
of need and passed their knowledge on to other
people. Among the best known “people’s my-
cologists” are W
ilhelm
O
bermeyer
from Gablen-
berg, J
ulius
H
auck
(1876-1966) from Eberbach,
P
aul
S
tricker
(1878-1956) from Karlsruhe und
Dr. H
ans
H
aas
(1904-2003) from Stuttgart. All
of them were teachers and authors of popular
mushroom books. The “Schwarzwälder Pilzlehr-
schau”, a mycology education center in the Black
Forest, celebrates its 50
th
anniversary this year
(2012). It was founded by the head master M
ax
H
etzel
(1899-1977) and it was managed longest
and until 2011 by W
alter
P
ätzold
(1948-2011).
The high number of public mushroom clubs
and trained mushroom advicers are remark-
able as well. Thanks are due to the artist O
tto
B
aral
(1909-2000) from Stuttgart for thousands
of mushroom water colours mainly from Baden-
Württemberg. It was a mushroom lover from
Baden-Württemberg, the meteorologist G
eorg
M
üller
, who for the first time used the internet
in Germany to generate a mycological news
network. He founded the first German internet
portal called “pilzepilze.de”. Many self-educated
persons contributed to appealing publications.
This especially holds for the beautifully illustrated
three-volume publication „Die Myxomyceten“
(“The Myxomycetes“) by a judge from Bühl, H
er
-
mann
N
eubert
(1935-2003) and his co-authors
W
olfgang
N
owotny
and K
arlheinz
B
aumann
. The
latter has received several awards for his pho-
tographs and films, ultimately in 2011, when he
received the renowned international “Meridian
Naturfilmpreis” (“Meridian Nature Film Award”).
Many consider his documentary film titled „As if
they were not from this world. – The impossible
life cycle of the slime moulds“ B
aumann
’s master-
piece. Exceptional for a German federal state is a
well-illustrated five-volume macrofungus flora ini-
tiated by the teacher G
erman
J
osef
K
rieglsteiner
(1937-2001) in co-operation with many amateur
mycologists. The industrial clerk and interpreter
M
anfred
E
nderle
from Riedheim is representive
among macrofungal research amateurs with a
considerable output of publications.
There is additional evidence that Baden-Würt-
temberg has been and still is (also) a country of
mycologists. The first German mushroom club
(at that time an all-German club) was founded
in Stuttgart in 1918. Later, the “Verein der Pilz-
freunde Stuttgart e.V.” has arisen from this. To-
day, it is the most popular local mushroom club
in Germany with the highest number of members
and an own journal called “Südwestdeutsche
Pilzrundschau”. Furthermore, the “German My-
cological Society” („Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Mykologie“, DGfM) is registered in Karlsruhe
and most of its chairmen were from the state of
Baden-Württemberg. Prof. L
udwig
K
lein
(1857-
1928), ordinary professor at the University of
Karlsruhe (of which he was dean twice) was the
first one appointed in 1923. At present, no-one
from Baden-Württemberg is heading this Soci-
ety, but the association of medical mycologists,
called “Deutschsprachige Mykologische Gesells-
chaft e.V.” (DMykG) is presently headed by the
dermatologist Prof. M
artin
S
challer
from the Uni-
versity of Tübingen.
All this is good reason to introduce today’s my-
cology in Baden-Württemberg in a volume of
“andrias”. Again, amateur as well as professional
mycologists have contributed to this volume. In
the first general part, authors of various public
facilities report about their mycological activities
in research, service and work for the public. The
second part includes research articlesmostly with
reference to Baden-Württemberg by researchers
from different fields. There is a great number of
potential authors in Baden-Württemberg, but, of
course, to let all of them write an article is beyond
