Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR

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Exterior view of the academy building in Berlin (1951, with flags of friendly nations)
Academy training center 1987

The Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR (AdL) was a non-university agricultural research institute in the GDR .

History and tasks

After the government of the GDR had decided on January 11, 1951 to create a central research facility for agriculture and forestry, the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences was established with effect from January 1, 1951 , which has been called the GDR Academy of Agricultural Sciences since 1972 . From the agricultural science class of the German Academy of Sciences(DAW), the Academy of Agricultural Sciences was created as an independent institution to carry out the tasks of research management and research coordination in the agricultural sector. According to the statute, the academy “as the highest scientific institution for the promotion of all branches of agriculture and forestry was responsible for the maintenance of the significant heritage and the great tradition of German agricultural sciences and the task of further developing these in all branches and their border areas and thus increasing the intellectual property of the to contribute to the German people ”.

The academy consisted of the learned society (plenary) of the full members, the agricultural research institutes (sections) and the central administrative and management facility. As a learned society, the academy brought together recognized agricultural scientists, most of whom were directors of institutes with an international reputation. The first president of the academy, Hans Stubbe (1951–1968), as director of the Institute for Genetics at the University of Halle , also headed the Institute for Cultivated Plant Research Gatersleben of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . The last president of the academy was Dieter Spaar (1987–1990).

In the course of its almost 40-year history, the academy reacted several times with structural changes to the fact that developments in the GDR economy and agriculture made new demands on agricultural research. New institutes were founded and entire research areas were formed. In 1989 the research was carried out in 20 institutes and three research centers. A total of 20 sections and four scientific councils coordinated the research work. In the end, half of the GDR's agricultural research potential was concentrated in the academy. At that time it comprised about 3300 scientists. In addition, there were around 2900 scientists who worked in research institutions that were directly subordinate to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food .

After German reunification in October 1990, the academy ended its work as an organizational unit of research institutions and central management. It was dissolved on December 31, 1991 in accordance with Article 38 of the Unification Treaty. The learned society, which was largely integrated into the management and organizational structure of the academy, ended its work at almost the same time and was also dissolved.

The Science Council of the Federal Republic evaluated the academy institutes and at the same time pursued the goal of developing a concept for the reorganization of East German non-university research. In its statement on the evaluation of the AdL, the Wissenschaftsrat u. a. the archiving of all documents and research materials stored in the individual AdL institutions and in the academy archive. In the course of archiving, these holdings should be prepared so that they are accessible for general use.

Achieving this goal was subject to the proviso that such structural units as the academies existing in the GDR (academy of science, academy of agricultural sciences, building academy) should not be preserved, but should be integrated into the scientific system of the Federal Republic.

Sections

literature

  • Klaus Schmidt (Ed.): Agriculture in the GDR - VEG, LPG and cooperations; how they became, what they were, what has become of them , Agrimedia GmbH & Co. KG, Clenze 2009
  • Johannes Wolf, Ernst Ritter: Academy of Agricultural Sciences . In: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Züchtungskunde (Ed.): DGfZ series of publications, special volume I: Animal breeding in the GDR and in the new federal states . 2007, ISSN  0949-8842 , p. 130-167 .
  • Hans Wagemann (Hrsg.): From the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR. A contribution to history 1951-1991 , Verlag Am Park, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3897931213

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Resolution on the establishment of the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences of January 11, 1951 (Journal of Laws p. 29)
  2. ^ Dieter Spaar: Dieter Spaar. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Quoted from Agricultural Policy Reports 2015