Traugott Mueller

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Traugott Mueller (also: Müller) (* around 1865, † after 1915) was a German agricultural functionary. As a secret senior government councilor and lecturing councilor in the Royal Prussian Ministry for Agriculture, Domains and Forests , he was the head of department for horticulture, fruit growing and viticulture, and in particular for the royal fruit growing institutes in Geisenheim and Proskau - there was one in Geisenheim am Rhein Royal Institute for Viticulture, Fruit Growing and Horticulture ; a royal pomological institute in Proskau, Upper Silesia .

Life

In 1887 or 1888, Mueller in Halle an der Saale was awarded the title of Dr. with his "Investigations into the current state of agricultural statistics and their development since 1868, with special attention to agricultural production statistics". phil. PhD.

In 1893, Mueller attended the World's Fair in Chicago . About his professional impressions from his tour of the USA (from July 29th to October 18th, 1893) he wrote the book "The American Irrigation Management and Other Agricultural Travel Observations from North America", which was published in 1894 by Paul Parey Zeitschriftenverlag in Berlin .

Until 1894, Mueller was Heinrich Dade's predecessor as the "General Secretary of the German Agricultural Council " in Berlin.

In 1898 Mueller was appointed department head for fruit and horticulture in the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture.

In 1899, with the support of the State of Prussia and the German Empire, a test station for the Association of German Millers was set up at the Royal Agricultural University in Berlin. This experimental station was subordinate to the secret government council Prof. Dr. Wittmack and was supervised by a seven-member board of trustees. The secret government council Dr. Traugott Müller, elected deputy chairman director J. van den Wyngaert. The tasks of the station were: The examinations of flours and bran for authorities, in particular for customs authorities, chambers of agriculture, milling associations, trade corporations and private individuals, for them also examinations of oil cake and other feed materials; Advice to millers and bakers in the event of malfunctions in the company, testing of devices; Investigation of the effect of the storage of flour, its self-heating, the influence of storage on the baking ability, causes of the different baking ability of different types of wheat, the occurrence of diastases in flours, the listing of flour types and much more.

In 1901 Mueller was appointed a secret senior councilor.

On April 1, 1903, an extended board of trustees was created for the Royal Institute for Wine, Fruit Growing and Horticulture in Geisenheim am Rhein, of which Traugott Mueller was appointed chairman.

In 1904, at the World Exhibition in St. Louis , Mueller headed the agricultural teaching exhibition of the German Empire on behalf of the Royal Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests and - in association with the German Agricultural Society - the entire German agricultural department.

In 1911, Privy Councilor Dr. Traugott Mueller is the permanent official delegate of Germany at the International Agricultural Institute in Rome, a forerunner of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations .

In 1915 Mueller was a member of the board of the War Committee for Substitute Feed GmbH.

Honors

  • 1899: Red Eagle Order, 4th class
  • 1901: Royal Crown Order 3rd class
  • 1903: Red Eagle Order 3rd Class with the ribbon
  • 1909: Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class with oak leaves
  • According to Traugott Mueller, a pear variety - a new breed of the Royal Institute for Fruit and Viticulture in Geisenheim a. Rh. - named.

Publications by Traugott Mueller

  • Traugott Mueller: Investigations into the current state of agricultural statistics and their development since 1868, with special consideration of the agricultural production statistics. Fischer, Jena 1888, Hochschulschrift, Zugl .: Halle, Univ., Diss., 1887, Extent: VIII, 184 S. ( uni-leipzig.de ).
  • Traugott Mueller, (Ed.): The Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Strelitz. In: Handbook of real estate in the German Empire. Volume 10, with details of all the larger goods, their quality, their size and distribution of the area according to cultivation types; their hoof position; their owners, tenants, administrators etc .; of industrial equipment; Post, telegraph and railway stations and the responsible district courts. Based on the available official and other authentic sources, edited by Dr. Dare. Mueller. Nicolaische Verlag-Buchhandlung R. Stricker, Berlin 1888 ( SUB Göttingen ).
  • Traugott Mueller: Usages of the exchange-based grain trade in Germany. Parey, Berlin 1892, catalog entry: search.books2ebooks.eu
  • Traugott Mueller: Organization of the seed status and harvest reporting. Lecture given at the Landwirthe Club in Berlin on December 6, 1892, Grundmann, Berlin 1893, catalog entry: search.books2ebooks.eu
  • Traugott Mueller: The American irrigation economy and other agricultural travel observations from North America. P. Parey, Berlin 1894, 132 pp., 21 sheets: Ill. ( Uni-leipzig.de ).
  • Traugott Mueller: Germany's agriculture: its development in the 19th century and its overall economic significance in the present. In: German agriculture at the World Exhibition in Paris 1900. Publisher: University library by Carl Georgi, Bonn, 1900, p. 1 to p. 83 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b garden flora. 50, 1901, p. 223 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Garden flora. Issue 4, February 15, 1903, p. 119 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ a b Report of the higher state educational institute for viticulture, fruit growing and horticulture in Geisenheim a. Rh. For the budget year 1903, reimbursed by the director Dr. Julius Wortmann. Paul Parey publishing house, Berlin 1904, p. 1 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Garden flora. 50, 1901, p. 109 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Pomological monthly books. Volume 44, 1898, p. 135 ( ub.tu-berlin.de PDF, p. 145).
  6. ↑ Garden flora. 48th Jg., 1899, p. 446 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  7. ^ Prussian administrative gazette . 1901, VII. “Personal-Nachrichten”, p. 352 ( staatsbibliothek-berlin.de ).
  8. ^ Reichskommissariat for the world exhibition in St. Louis 1904 (ed.): Official report on the world exhibition in Saint Louis 1904. Part 2, 1906, p. 396 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive “The German agricultural educational exhibition was from the Royal Prussian Ministry for Agriculture, Domains and Forests was brought into being and carried out by the Secret High Government Councilor and lecturing councilor Dr. Traugott Müller, who is so extremely active in this area, [...] The Secret High Government Councilor Dr. Müller not only directed this part, but in community with the German Agricultural Society in general the whole German agricultural department ”[at the world exhibition in St. Louis 1904]).
  9. ↑ Andreas Hermes : Notes of the life course. Pp. 87/88 ( kas.de ). See p. 95/96 there: “In Privy Councilor Mueller, Germany had an excellent delegate who surpassed all others in terms of knowledge and ability, and whose clever and considered advice was always listened to with great respect in the institute. Despite a [...] personal argument, I have to acknowledge his great and decisive contribution to the development and internal organization of the institute. "
  10. ↑ Andreas Hermes : Notes of the life course. P. 115 ( kas.de ).
  11. ↑ Garden flora. 1899, Volume 48, p. 87 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ) Personal-Nachrichten: “At the Coronation and Order Feasts, the following were awarded: […] the Red Eagle Order IV. Class: Dr. Traugott Müller, Geh.-Reg.Rat, and lecturing council in the Ministry of Agriculture (Department Head for Horticulture) [...]. "
  12. ↑ Garden flora. 1901, vol. 50, p. 336 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ) Personal-Nachrichten: “… was […] the Geh. Government Councilor Dr. phil. Traugott Müller, lecturing council in the Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests, [...] awarded the Royal Crown Order 3rd class. "
  13. ↑ Garden flora. 52nd year, issue 4, February 15, 1903, p. 119 ( archive.org ) “… Dr. Traugott Müller, go. Senior government councilor and lecturing council in the minister. f. Agriculture, domains, etc. Forsten (department head for Geisenheim and Proskau), the Red Eagle Order 3rd class with the ribbon "
  14. ↑ Möller's German Gardener Newspaper. No. 7, 1909, Volume 24, p. 83, (Personalnachrichten: tu-berlin.de ).
  15. ↑ Garden flora. 53/1904, p. 298 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Mueller, Traugott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Traugott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural functionary
DATE OF BIRTH around 1865
DATE OF DEATH after 1915