Ludwig Diels

Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels (24 September 1874 – 30 November 1945) was a German botanist.

From 1900 to 1902 he traveled together with Ernst Georg Pritzel through South Africa, Java, Australia and New Zealand.

Especially his collections of plants from Australia and Ecuador, which contained numerous holotypes, enriched the knowledge of the concerning floras.

[citation needed] The majority of his collections were stored at the botanical garden in Berlin-Dahlem, whose vicedirector he had been since 1913, becoming its director in 1921 until 1945.

Also Dielitzia (from Asteraceae family), is named after Ludwig Diels and Ernst Georg Pritzel (1875–1946).