Adolf König (agricultural technician)

Adolf Werner Heinrich König (born September 13, 1904 in Vohwinkel , Mettmann District , Rhine Province , German Empire ; † December 29, 1991 in Kronberg im Taunus , Hochtaunus District , Hesse , Germany ) was a German agricultural engineer .

Life

Family and education

The Evangelical baptized, born Vohwinkeler Adolf King, son of Carl King and his wife Carola, abiturierte 1923 at the secondary school in Elberfeld . He then took up a degree in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich , in 1929 he acquired the academic degree of Dipl.-Ing. In 1933 he was promoted to Dr.-Ing. PhD .

Adolf König married Ottilie nee Ingelfinger in 1932. Six children named Hildegard, Adolf, Carl, Anneliese, Walther and Hans-Christoph came from this connection. He died at the end of December 1991 at the age of 87 in Kronberg im Taunus.

Professional background

In 1929, Adolf König took on a position as a scientific assistant for agricultural engineering at Georg Kühne at the Technical University in Munich , and in 1934 he moved to the Rudolph Sack agricultural machinery factory in Plagwitz as an assistant director for development and patent matters . In 1946 he followed a call to the chair for agricultural engineering at the agricultural faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . After fleeing to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1951, he got a job as a research assistant at the Rudolf Sack GmbH for tractor equipment, a newly established branch of the Rudolph Sack agricultural machinery factory in Hanover-Linden . In 1953 he was given the chair for agricultural engineering at the agricultural faculty of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , succeeding Heinz Speiser . Adolf König, who was Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture from 1956 to 1957 and from 1962 to 1963 , retired in 1970 .

In particular, Adolf König conducted research on problems relating to the beginning of motorization and the mechanization of domestic operations (e.g. milking technology).

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• Procedure for assessing the evenness of a straight line of points and its application in seed drill tests. Dissertation , Technical University of Munich, 1933, Bethel Institution, Bethel, 1933

literature

• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who, Volume 16. , Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 660.
• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 2. 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007434-6 , p. 2009.
• Association of German Engineers: Fundamentals of Agricultural Engineering, Volume 34. VDI Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1984, p. 227.
• Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Ed.): Christiana Albertina, Volume 34. Neumünster, 1992, p. 285.

Web links

• Adolf König in the Kiel list of scholars