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Hans Karl Oskar Stubbe (7 March 1902 – 14 May 1989) was a Germanagronomist andplant breeder. During theSecond World War he was dismissed by theNazi government from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research inMüncheberg in 1936. After the war he went to work inEast Germany where he was the founding director of the Institute for Cultivated Plant Research (which started as the Institut für Kulturpflanzenforschung in Vienna) inGatersleben. He stood up against the ideas ofTrofim Lysenko and prevented East German genetics from being influenced by politics that had caused damage in theSoviet Union.
Stubbe was born in 1902 at Berlin where his father was a school inspector. He studied agriculture and biology at theUniversity of Göttingen and theAgricultural University of Berlin. He became a student ofErwin Baur at the Institute for Inheritance Research in Berlin where he worked on a doctoral thesis on mutagenesis in 1929. He then joined the newly established Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research in Müncheberg but after about nine years he was dismissed when the Nazi party came into power. For a while he worked withFritz von Wettstein at the Institut für Kulturpflanzenforschung in Vienna. Wettstein wished to recruitElisabeth Schiemann to head the institute but Stubbe objected to the idea of men working under her. He made major expeditions to collectgermplasm of wild and cultivated plants from around Europe both with civilian and military objectives.[1] Stubbe worked on using X-rays to produce useful mutations in barley. Along with Gustav Becker and Kurt Mothes, Stubbe ensured thatLysenkoism did not take root in East Germany.[2][3]
Despite his anti-fascist views, Stubbe defended his friendGünther Niethammer and wrote a letter in 1947 exonerating the latter of any wilful participation with the Nazis at Auschwitz. After the Second World War Stubbe became director of the Institute for Cultivated Plant Research in Gatersleben. Stubbe died in 1989 in Zingst. He was succeeded at Gatersleben by his student Helmut Böhme.[3]
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