Coleoptera Collection

History of the Coleoptera Collection

From 1870 on Gustav Kraatz (1831-1909) promoted the installation of a National Museum for Entomology (Entomologischen National-Museums (ENM)). Apart from Kraatz the following Entomologists also bequeathed their collections to Entomologisches National-Museum, which later on became the Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut:

• Lucas von Heyden, Frankfurt am Main – collection of palearctic Coleoptera,
• Karl Wilhelm Letzner, Breslau – collection of  european Coleoptera,
• Georg Metzler, Frankfurt am Main – collection of  Coleoptera: Melolonthinae,
• William Henry Rolph, Berlin – collection of  moroccan Coleoptera,
• August John Stern, Frankfurt am Main – collection of  Coleoptera,
• Johann Carl Stern, Frankfurt am Main – collection of  Coleoptera (mainly Germany),
• Lothar Dieckmann, Eberswalde – collection of european Coleoptera: Curculionoidea,
• Karl-Heinz Mohr, Halle (Saale) – collection of Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae.