Oskar Alexander Richard Büttner (28 September 1858 – 1927) was a German botanist and mineralogist who was involved in the exploration of the Congo Basin.
He studied in Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1883 with his dissertation Flora advena marchica.
[3] [1] The station had been founded in June 1888 by the explorer Ludwig Wolf and named after the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
[4][5] At that time, the station consisted of nine adobe buildings arranged in a rectangle.
[2] Büttner is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of African lizard, Trachylepis buettneri.