"Monday-Sampling" at Müggelsee in the autumn of 1980. | Photo: IGB archive
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of IGB, a historical retrospective traces the way from the beginnings as Biological and Fishery Experimental Station in the late 19th century to the founding of today's institute in 1992. The historian Barbara Köfler-Tockner, together with the scientists Michael Hupfer, Peter Casper and Rainer Koschel, reconstructed the history of IGB's three precursor institutions on the basis of documents and witness reports. The authours describe in particular detail the turbulent period of German reunification, which resulted in the current structure and orientation of IGB.
The book can be ordered now via the IGB-library for a protection fee of 5 Euros (available only in German).
Karl Bugow in fishing class at the Sacrower Lake, about 1922. | Photo: Archives IGB
Microbiological work in the bacteriological and chemical laboratory of the Stechlinsee site, 1959. | Photo: Archives IGB
Johannes Frenzel, the first head of the "Biological and Fishery Test Station, Müggelsee", on the ice-covered Müggelsee, about 1894. | Photo: Archives IGB
Outdoor work in the branch "Teichwirtliches Testungsstation Königswartha" in 1955. | Photo: Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology
Wolfgang Müller, head of the branch for carp pond farming in Königswartha, with Hungarian carp hybrids, 1985. | Photo: Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology
The "Royal Institute of Inland Fisheries", view from the sea side, in 1910. | Photo: Archives IGB
Employees of Research Center at Stechlinsee, 1977. | Photo: Wolfram Scheffler
