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Herold Georg Wilhelm Johannes Schweickerdt (28 February 1903, Schmie, Baden-Württemberg – 21 February 1977, Pretoria) was a German botanist.

In 1904 he moved with his parents to Pretoria, where he later studied at Transvaal University. From 1922 to 1924 he was a student at the University of Bonn (1922–24), later becoming a professor in Pretoria. From 1940 to 1964 he served as inspector of the Botanical Garden at the University of Göttingen.

During his career he collected plants in Transvaal, South-West Africa, Rhodesia, Mozambique and Natal. The plant species Gasteria schweickerdtiana is named after him.

The H.G.W.J Schweickerdt Herbarium (PRU) at the University of Pretoria is named in his honour.

Publications

• Untersuchungen über Photodinese bei Vallisneria spiralis, 1928 - Studies on photodinese in Vallisneria spiralis.

References

1. Universität Zürich - Herbarien der Universität Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (biographical information)
2. HUH - Databases - Botanist Search
3. Calflora Flora of Southern Africa, Plant Names P-Z
4. International Plant Names Index.  Schweick.
5. Google Books Untersuchungen über Photodinese bei Vallisneria spiralis

• 20th-century German botanists
• 1977 deaths
• 1903 births
• Scientists from Baden-Württemberg
• Academic staff of the University of Pretoria
• German emigrants to South Africa