Hans Stubbe

He stood up against the ideas of Trofim Lysenko and prevented East German genetics from being influenced by politics that had caused damage in the Soviet Union.

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.

Wettstein wished to recruit Elisabeth Schiemann to head the institute but Stubbe objected to the idea of men working under her.

He made major expeditions to collect germplasm of wild and cultivated plants from around Europe both with civilian and military objectives.

[2][3] Despite his anti-fascist views, Stubbe defended his friend Günther Niethammer and wrote a letter in 1947 exonerating the latter of any wilful participation with the Nazis at Auschwitz.