Ludwig Kießling

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Ludwig Kießling (born March 31, 1875 in Schwarzenbach an der Saale ; † February 3, 1942 in Munich ) was a German crop scientist and plant breeder.

Life

Kiessling, the son of a baker and farmer, studied agriculture in Weihenstephan and at the Technical University of Munich , where he in 1906 when Carl Kraus with a dissertation on the drying possibilities of barley doctorate was. During his studies in 1896 he became a member of the Stauffia fraternity in Munich . Then he joined the Bavarian State Plant Breeding Institute Weihenstephan and became its director in 1910. In the same year he was appointed professor.

In the following two decades he decisively determined the organizational structure of plant breeding and the seed industry in Bavaria. He mainly dealt intensively with methodological problems of practical breeding work. The increase in yield and the improvement of the quality of the cereals were of particular concern to him. In 1920 he took over the chair for arable and crop production at the Technical University of Munich. Although he continued to be the head of the Bavarian State Plant Breeding Institute until 1927, from then on plant cultivation problems were more the focus of his scientific work. Following the example of his predecessors in office Ewald Wollny and Carl Kraus, he also dealt with questions of soil physics .

Kießling was co-founder and co-editor of the magazine for plant breeding as well as co-editor of the magazine plant cultivation . He made particular contributions as editor of the series Landwirtschaftliche Hefte , a collection of practice-oriented monographs on all areas of agriculture, published by Paul Parey in Berlin . His published celebratory speech from 1921 on the position of agriculture on the technical and other sciences is significant in terms of the history of science . Kießling's students included Hanns Kreutz and Arnold Scheibe .

Fonts

  • Investigations into the drying of the grain with special consideration of the barley . Diss. TH Munich 1906. Zugl. in: Quarterly journal of the Bavarian Agricultural Council, vol. 11, 1906, pp. 13–137.
  • The organization of state seed breeding in Bavaria. In: Fühlings Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung 55, 1906, pp. 329–338
  • Investigations on the germ maturation of cereals . In: Landwirtschaftliches Jahrbuch für Bayern, Vol. 1, 1911, pp. 449-514.
  • Brief introduction to the technology of grain breeding . Publishing house Paul Parey Berlin 1912; 2nd edition 1920 = Landwirtschaftliche Hefte Nr. 2.
  • The position of agriculture in relation to the technical and other sciences . Speech given at the academic celebration of the Technical University of Munich on December 10, 1921. Separate print: Munich 1921.
  • Something about modern conceptions in agriculture . In: Landwirtschaftliches Jahrbuch für Bayern, Vol. 18, 1928, pp. 486–496.

literature

  • Arnold Scheibe : Ludwig Kießling †. Life and work of a plant farmer and plant breeder in the service of German agriculture . In: Journal for Plant Breeding Vol. 24, 1942, pp. 592-598 (with picture and list of publications).
  • Arnold Scheibe: Ludwig Kießling † . In: Pflanzenbau Jg. 18, 1942, pp. 225–230 (with picture).
  • Hanns Kreutz: Ludwig Kießling † . In: Der Züchter Vol. 14, 1942, pp. 97-98 (with picture).
  • Gustav Aufhammer :  Kießling, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 601 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 207.

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personal data
SURNAME Kiessling, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German crop scientist and plant breeder
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzenbach on the Saale
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1942
Place of death Munich