Alois Seidl

Alois Seidl (born March 23, 1934 in Raitenhaslach , Altötting district , Upper Bavaria ; † May 25, 2015 ) was a German agricultural scientist . From 1971 to 1996 he taught at the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences , where he represented the subjects of agricultural economics and agricultural history .

Life path

Alois Seidl, son of a farming family, attended the humanistic grammar school in Burghausen from 1944 , where he graduated from high school in 1952 . He then studied pedagogy at the Institute for Teacher Training in Freising . After a year of practical work on a training company in Upper Bavaria, he passed the examination as an agricultural assistant and then studied agriculture at the Weihenstephan site of the Technical University of Munich . In 1957 he became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Agilolfia Freising. After entering the higher civil service of the State of Bavaria, he worked for several years in agricultural education and consulting. In 1964 he received his doctorate in Weihenstephan with his former teacher and holder of the chair for agricultural economics Paul Rintelen with a dissertation on the design of business administration at agricultural schools.

In the same year Seidl entered the engineering school for agriculture in Schönbrunn near Landshut , where he was now responsible for the field of agricultural economics. After the establishment of the universities of applied sciences in Bavaria and the incorporation of the Engineering School for Agriculture Schönbrunn into the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences in 1971, he taught there until his retirement in 1996 as a professor of agricultural economics and agricultural history. From 1985 to 1989 he was president of this college.

Research and Teaching

Based on the topic of his dissertation on business administration at agricultural schools, Seidl worked on fundamental aspects of agricultural education for many years . His research approaches were partly strongly historically determined. With this conception he sees himself in the tradition of important agricultural historians, such as B. Theodor Freiherr von der Goltz , Friedrich Aereboe and Richard Krzymowski , who, as representatives of agricultural economics, found their way to the history of science in their field and to agricultural history relatively early on . Seidl's notable contributions to the history of agriculture include several studies on the history of the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences and the development phases in the establishment of the Weihenstephan “Green Center” . One focus is the Schönleutner research.

Seidl was one of the most profound experts on Bavarian and German agricultural history. His main work is the teaching, reading and work manual German Agricultural History , which has grown out of lectures, a first edition of which was published in 1995 and a second edition in 2006. The book with detailed references to sources and literature provides a comprehensive overview of the agricultural historical development in the German-speaking area of ​​Central Europe.

After Seidl worked as a lecturer for education and didactics at the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture at the Technical University of Munich in Weihenstephan from 1967 to 1987 , he took on a teaching position for agricultural history at this university in 1996, after his retirement . Until 2005 he held lectures here on the history of the development of Bavarian and German agriculture.

From 1996 to 2004, Seidl was a member of the Board of Trustees of the German Horticultural Museum Foundation and, in this role, was involved in setting up the German Horticultural Museum in Erfurt , which opened in 2000 . From 1998 to 2006 he was a board member and deputy chairman of the Society for Agricultural History . Committed he supported initiated by this scientific society project agricultural heritage , and create, among other things brief descriptions of the Upper Bavarian counties including agrarian cultural assets.

As an employee at the in Munich : CH Beck Verlag appearing Manual of Bavarian history published Seidl 2007 overview contribution to the development of agriculture in Bavaria since 1800. Currently, he is working on agricultural science teaching and research at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in its Landshut period ( 1800–1826) and the history of crop science in Weihenstephan. His list of publications includes around 50 scientific articles.

Fonts (selection)

• The design of business lessons at agricultural schools. Munich 1964 (machine-written dissertation, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Technical University of Munich, 1964); Short version in: Bavarian Agricultural Yearbook. Vol. 42, 1965, pp. 3-36.
• Structural Change and Schooling in Agriculture. In: Bavarian Agricultural Yearbook. Vol. 46, 1969, pp. 494-512.
• Economics of Plant Production. In: agricultural management. Edited by Franz Leiber. Paul Parey, Berlin / Hamburg 1984, pp. 216-265.
• The Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences in the arc of history. In: Bavarian Agricultural Yearbook. Vol. 69, 1992, pp. 1992, pp. 165-175.
• German agriculture between the social market economy and socialism - an analysis of agricultural history and agricultural policy. In: Bavarian Agricultural Yearbook. Vol. 69, 1992, pp. 643-655.
• German agricultural history. With an excursus on the history of the Weihenstephan “Green Center” (= series of publications by the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences. Vol. 3). Abraxas-Verlagbuchhandlung, Freising 1995; 2nd edition under the title German Agricultural History. DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
• Bavarian agriculture in the past century. In: Hundred Years of Association of Agricultural Consultants in the Higher Service in Bavaria e. V. in the Bavarian Official Association: 1897–1997 (Festschrift). Munich 1997, pp. 15-49.
• Max Schönleutner - herald of rational agriculture in Bavaria. In: Journal of Agricultural History and Agricultural Sociology. Vol. 46, 1998, pp. 135-147.
• Agricultural historical considerations on the current situation and the future of agriculture. In: Reports on Agriculture. Vol. 77, 1999, pp. 479-491.
• 200 years of agricultural education and research in Weihenstephan. In: Journal of Agricultural History and Agricultural Sociology. Vol. 50, 2002, pp. 1-16.
• Agricultural. In: Handbook of Bavarian History. Edited by Alois Schmid . Vol. IV / 2, CH Beck, Munich, 2007, pp. 154-181.

literature

• NN: Made great contributions to the university of applied sciences. Former FH President Prof. Dr. Alois Seidl celebrated 60th birthday. In: Freisinger Tagblatt . April 21, 1994 (with picture).
• NN: Farewell to Prof. Dr. Alois Seidl. In: Announcements of the Alumni Association Schönbrunn-Weihenstephan. No. 92, 1996, p. 24 (with picture).

Web links

• Literature by and about Alois Seidl in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karin Huber: Former President Prof. Dr. Alois Seidl passed away , Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences website, June 2, 2015, accessed on July 7, 2015.