Adolf Münzinger

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Adolf Münzinger (born January 12, 1876 in Kirchentellinsfurt , † September 8, 1962 in Hohenheim ) was a German agricultural economist and long-time rector of the Hohenheim Agricultural University .

biography

Münzinger was born into a family of doctors in Kirchentellinsfurt in Württemberg and was already enthusiastic about agriculture at the age of 15. After five years of practical training, he began his agricultural studies in 1897 at what was then the Hohenheim Agricultural Academy , where he also joined the Academic Society of Gemütlichkeit . He completed his studies at the University of Jena with a doctorate with an agricultural science dissertation .

This was followed by many years of successful work as director of large agricultural operations in Eastern Europe, most recently with around 60,000 hectares of agricultural land in Hungary . In 1922 he was appointed to the chair for agricultural management in Hohenheim.

For the first time he combined large-scale theory and practical experience with the problems of small-scale agriculture in southern Germany. His initiatives in farm management influenced applied research, the training of practical farmers and the work of agricultural professional organizations for several decades.

During his 54 semesters of teaching, Professor Münzinger was repeatedly rector of the Hohenheim Agricultural University (1926 to 1927 and 1945 to 1947). Thanks to his commitment and his irreproachable reputation, Hohenheim was able to resume university operations under his leadership in January 1946, which had been discontinued during the war years. In his capacity as university rector, Münzinger was also a member of the provisional parliament for Württemberg-Baden in 1946 .

Even after his retirement in 1949 and until his death in Stuttgart in 1962, Münzinger remained a recognized authority and a driving force in scientific and practical agricultural research and professional organizations. He initiated the establishment of a Hohenheim alumni association, the "Hohenheim University Association", and was its executive board and honorary chairman for many years. After the reconstitution of the Corps Germania Hohenheim , which was based on his initiative, he became its long-standing chairman. In addition to numerous honors bestowed on Adolf Münzinger, including the Great Federal Cross of Merit and honorary doctorates , the State of Württemberg-Baden donated the Adolf Münzinger Prize in 1951, which has been awarded to the most successful farmers in the state for many years.

Main work

  • Adolf Münzinger: Agriculture in the Mannheim industrial district . 1902
  • Adolf Münzinger: The nitrogen lime, its use and effect . Parey, Berlin 1906
  • Paul Wagner: Experiments on the nitrogen fertilization of the crop plants using chilli nitrate, ammonia salt and calcium cyanamide . Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft, Berlin 1907 (tests of the fertilizer department in connection with agricultural test stations; 5) (work of the DLG; 129)
  • Paul Wagner: Experiments on meadow fertilization . Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft, Berlin 1909 (tests of the fertilizer department in connection with agricultural test stations; 8) (work of the DLG; 162)
  • Adolf Münzinger: Organization in large farms: operational experiences, thoughts and investigations . Fischer, Jena 1917
  • Adolf Münzinger: The estate economy of the agricultural university Hohenheim . Wittwer, Stuttgart 1925
  • Adolf Münzinger: Problems of rural economic advice . Parey, Berlin 1926
  • Adolf Münzinger: The labor yield of the family farm. A farm survey in Württemberg . 2 volumes, Parey, Berlin 1929
  • Adolf Münzinger: Production and consumption, import and export of agricultural products in Württemberg . Parey, Berlin 1933 (Reports on Agriculture. Special Issues; NF, 86)
  • Adolf Münzinger: Rural machine cooperative houses EGMBH An attempt at cooperative village economy in the years 1930–1934 . Beuth, Berlin 1934 (RKTL publications; 54)
  • Erich Graß: The land consolidation in southern Germany, its history and its status on January 1st, 1935 . Parey, Berlin 1936 (Reports on Agriculture. Special Issues; NF, 123)
  • Adolf Münzinger: Cattle husbandry and natural fodder base in southern Germany . Parey, Berlin 1937 (Reports on Agriculture. Special Issues; NF, 125)
  • Adolf Münzinger: Resettlement as the last resort to preserve the peasantry. Shown using the example of the municipality of Wiesensteig on the Swabian Alb . Parey, Berlin 1938
  • Adolf Münzinger: The economic structure of the rural communities in the Württemberg-Hohenzollern planning area . 5 parts, 1941
  • Adolf Münzinger: Lorraine's agriculture as it was and how it should be. Expert opinion on behalf of the Reich governor in Westmark and chiefs of civil administration in Lorraine submitted by Münzinger-Hohenheim . Knoblauch, Hohenheim 1941; 2., reworked. u. exp. Edition, [Saarbrücken] 1943
  • Adolf Münzinger: The production costs of the Württemberg agriculture. A business study on the question of the future prices of agricultural products . Ulmer, Stuttgart, e.g. Currently Ludwigsburg 1948
  • Adolf Münzinger: From my life . Ulmer, Stuttgart 1963 [published] 1964

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hohenheim's directors, rectors and presidents ( memento from March 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Münzinger, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural economist and university rector
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchentellinsfurt
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1962
Place of death Hohenheim