Heinz Brücher
Heinz Brücher | |
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Portrait from the 1930s | |
| Born | January 14, 1915 |
| Died | December 17, 1991 (aged 76) |
| Alma mater | University of Jena, University of Tübingen |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany, plant breeding, ethnobotany |
| Institutions | University of Tucumán |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Brücher |
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.