Anton Bauer (pomologist)

Anton Bauer (born July 4, 1931 , † November 4, 2014 ) was a German pomologist .

Career

Korbinian apple

Bauer grew up in Jarzt near Freising (Upper Bavaria). He gained early experience in fruit growing from his father who planted an orchard. As an altar boy, he got to know the “apple pastor ” Korbinian Aigner , who was pastor in neighboring Hohenbercha, and became his apprentice. After taking over his father's orchard, he enlarged it considerably. There he collected and tended over 400 different types of apples and around 200 other types of fruit. He paid special attention to preserving Korbinian Aigner's life's work. After his death in October 1966, Bauer and the Bavarian State Association for Fruit and Horticulture ensured that Aigner's most famous variety, the “KZ-3” variety, was named ' Korbiniansapfel ''and was distributed throughout Bavaria in the 1980s. Unfortunately, around 2014, based on morphological and genetic comparisons, it turned out that instead of the Korbinian apple, the cultivar ' Stina Lohmann ', which is common in northern Germany and which was also cultivated in Jarzt, was refined. A search for the "real" Korbiniansapfel ", also in Hohenbercha, has so far been unsuccessful.

Bauer passed on his extensive fruit growing expertise in lectures. As an initiator and contributor to numerous fruit exhibitions, he was also committed to the exchange of knowledge.

In addition to managing his fruit growing business, he held numerous honorary posts for the interests of agriculture and horticulture. In 1978 he re-founded the fruit and horticultural association in his home town of Fahrenzhausen and became its first chairman. In addition, he was chairman of the Jarzt local association in the Bavarian Farmers' Association and the Jarzter hunting association for over 20 years.

Honors

• 1999: Golden Rose of the Bavarian State Association for Fruit Growing and Horticulture

  for his extraordinary commitment to fruit growing and gardening culture beyond the borders of his homeland

• July 8, 2010: State Medal from the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests

  for his great services to Bavarian fruit growing

Movie

• Pomologist out of passion: the apple grower Anton Bauer. in: Bayerischer Rundfunk: Between Spessart and Karwendel , first broadcast on September 30, 2006

See also

• List of pomologists

Web links

• The own garden of Eden , in: Münchner Merkur, October 8, 2004
• A sea of ​​apple blossoms , in: Münchner Merkur, May 10, 2010 (with illustration)
• State medal for Jarzter fruit grower Anton Bauer at the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary, accessed November 8, 2014