Alfred Alzheimer

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Johann Alfred Alzheimer (born September 20, 1875 , † June 10, 1949 in Pfarrkirchen ) was a German agriculture teacher and plant breeder.

Life

Alfred Alzheimer, the brother of Alois Alzheimer , studied agriculture at the Academy for Agriculture and Breweries Weihenstephan and at the Technical University of Munich . In 1894 he became a member of the Corps Agronomia in Freising . After completing his studies, he was an assistant for a short time before he was appointed director of the Neumarkt Agricultural School in the Upper Palatinate . As a result, he was appointed director of the higher agricultural school in Pfarrkirchen.

Alzheimer succeeded in breeding a white oat and various types of corn maize on his own property . The Pfarrkirchen grain maize that he bred was particularly early ripening and could therefore be grown in colder regions such as Silesia and was one of the most widespread grain maize varieties in Germany in the 1930s.

literature

  • Theophil Gerber: personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine. Biographical Lexicon. Volume 1: A-L. 3rd, exp. Edition. NORA Verlagsgemeinschaft Dyck & Westerheide, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-936735-67-3 , p. 19.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, no.49
personal data
SURNAME Alzheimer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agriculture teacher and plant breeder
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1875
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1949
Place of death Parish churches