Adam Müller (farmer)

Adam Müller (born December 14, 1814 in Gerhardsbrunn ; † May 20, 1879 in Munich ) was considered a particularly educated farmer, also known as "Bauern-Pestalozzi" in his homeland.

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Müller was the only son of Valentin Müller and his wife Anna Maria, née Pfeiffer, and spent his youth on their parents' farm. In 1833 he used a longer stay near Metz to study language. In Morhange he taught himself German and music. After his return to his father's farm, he trained in many areas such as physics, mathematics, geometry and botany in addition to his work. In 1842 he married Anna Maria Höh. From 1858 he was also the mayor of his home town, like his father and grandfather before.

He always tried to use his knowledge for agriculture. His first agricultural textbook (1845) made him known far beyond the Palatinate. From 1846 to 1850 he was editor of the Rheinische Zeitschrift für Landwirtschaft.

In 1848 he was elected commissioner at Martinshöhe . For the constituency of Zweibrücken, he entered the Bavarian state parliament in 1848 , to which he belonged until he left in 1864. He resigned from the state parliament to become a teacher at the agricultural department of the Kaiserslautern district trade school. In Munich he also met Justus von Liebig , who proposed him in 1865 as general secretary of the Bavarian Agricultural Association. He was also the organizer of the agricultural shows at the world exhibitions in Paris (1867) and Vienna (1873) and lecturer in the agricultural department at the Munich Polytechnic .

In 1868 he was awarded the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Merit by St. Michael .

Web links

• Adam Müller in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• On the death of Adam Müller, the "peasant Pestalozzi" from Sickinger Höhe

literature

• Kurt Baumann (Ed.): Palatinate Life Pictures. Volume 3, Publishing House of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science in Speyer, Speyer 1977, p. 247 ff.