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Walther Herwig (February 25, 1838 - December
16, 1912) was a Prussian
administrative lawyer, and the founder of the German fisheries science.
Herwig studied jurisprudence at the University of Göttingen from
1856, where he became member of the Corps Hannovera. He continued
his studies at the universities of Leipzig, Freiburg and Berlin, before entering
the Prussian civil
service. In 1869 he became district officer for his hometown of
Arolsen. He was
vice-president of the Provincial Training and Medical College
Association in Berlin. From 1879 to 1893 he belonged to the Prussian Lower House. Herwig
received his habilitation from the University of
Kiel in 1896. He was appointed as a senior government advice in
Hanover until his retirement
in 1907, when he returned to Berlin.
Amongst his other work in the civil service, Herwig promoted the
development of a German high seas fishing
industry. To this end, in 1880 the first German research vessel
was built. This ship, named the President Herwig, was lost
in 1898 on the coast of Iceland. Herwig used this event to propose a
restructuring of the German high sea fishing fleet, and in
particular for social support for the crews of the ships and action
to maintain a supply of appropriately trained manpower to the
industry. From 1902 until 1908 Herwig was appointed President of
the Central Committee for the International Exploration of the Sea,
the body that went on to become the modern day International
Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES).
At present the main German research vessel operating in the North Atlantic
and North Sea is known
as the Walther Herwig III.
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