Armin zur Lippe-Weißenfeld

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Armin Graf zur Lippe-Weißenfeld (born October 15, 1825 in Oberlößnitz , today Radebeul ; † April 21, 1899 in Oberschönfeld near Bunzlau , Silesia ; also: Arminius zur Lippe-Biesterfeld-Weissenfeld and Armin zur Lippe-Weißenfels ) was a German landowner , Agricultural scientist and member of the Reichstag. He taught as a full professor at the University of Rostock and published numerous books and writings on almost all areas of agriculture.

Live and act

Armin Graf zur Lippe-Weißenfeld studied economics and agriculture at the University of Jena since 1847 , then worked for thirteen years as an estate manager and later as a farmer on his own estate near Dresden . Here in Saxony he was involved in agricultural associations . He tried to improve the farmers' expertise through lectures. Numerous publications , including his book Landwirthschaftliche Briefe (1861), served this goal . In 1866 he sold his estate and moved to Dresden, where he worked full-time in agricultural associations and as a specialist author .

In 1867 he was a member of the Reichstag for the 19th constituency of the Kingdom of Saxony.

In 1872, Lippe-Weißenfeld accepted an appointment as a full professor of agriculture at the University of Rostock . In his lectures he dealt with the entire field of agriculture. In Mecklenburg , too , he was interested in agricultural associations . In 1872 he founded a "Agriculture Association for Small Farmers" and in 1873 the "Agriculture Association Gazette" for small farmers. He played a decisive role in the establishment of an agricultural research station in Rostock (1875) and a dairy research station (1876). For health reasons he gave up his professorship in 1879. Since then he has lived on a manor in Oberschönfeld near Bunzlau that he had bought . There he continued to work as a writer.

Lippe-Weißenfeld is the author of numerous books and writings. The range of topics includes all core areas of agricultural education: crop production , animal breeding and agricultural economics . But he also dealt with agricultural policy and agro-social problems in agriculture and took a critical position on current issues. Noteworthy is the anthology he edited with his own lectures and treatises, which he published in 1879 under the title For Practice . Lippe-Weißenfeld edited several agricultural association magazines .

Major works

  • Complete pig breeding. A practical, instructive manual for landowners, etc.… . Reichenbach'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1853. - 2nd edition under the title pig breeding . Completely reworked by Ms. Dettweiler. Ibid. Leipzig 1909.
  • Agricultural accounting . Otto Wigand Publishing House, Leipzig 1858.
  • Agricultural letters . Otto Wigand publishing house, Leipzig 1861.
  • The agricultural yield estimate . Otto Wigand publishing house, Leipzig 1862.
  • The farmer in relation to family, community, church and state . Georg Wigand Publishing House, Leipzig 1863.
  • Overexploitation or not? Georg Wigand Publishing House, Leipzig 1865.
  • The rational nutrition of the people. With special consideration of boarding in schools, seminars, workhouses and poor houses . Georg Wigand Publishing House, Leipzig 1866.
  • The principles of breeding for the smaller farmer briefly summarized . Ehrenfriedersdorf 1867; 2nd edition, ibid. 1869.
  • Agricultural reader for the smaller and aspiring farmer. At the same time as teaching in agricultural training schools . 2 volumes, Schönfeld's Verlag, Dresden 1871.
  • For the practice. Agricultural lectures and treatises . Publisher by Hugo Voigt, Leipzig 1879.
  • To the criticism of the feed . Publisher by Hugo Voigt, Leipzig 1879.
  • To the culture of wheat . Publisher by Hugo Voigt, Leipzig 1879.
  • The compost and its uses . Publisher by Hugo Voigt, Leipzig 1879.
  • The farmer and the growing socialism among his workers . Georg Wigand Publishing House, Leipzig 1879.
  • The four major production directions in agriculture . Publisher by Hugo Voigt, Leipzig 1879.
  • Diary for the book-keeping and calculating farmer. An indispensable addition to any agricultural calendar . Leipzig 1880.
  • The three advertising factors of agriculture: nature, labor, capital. A contribution to general agricultural teaching . G. Schönfeld's publishing house, Dresden 1892.

literature

  • Thiel's Landwirthschaftliches Konversations-Lexikon . First supplement volume. Published by Fr. Thiel, Leipzig 1884, pp. 205–206 (with picture).
  • Adolf Hinrichsen: The literary Germany . 2nd edition, Verlag des Literarian Deutschlands, Leipzig 1891, column 821–822.
  • W. Huth: Book of famous farmers. 100 short outlines of the lives of outstanding German experts with special consideration of their services to agriculture . Self-published by the author, Güstrow 1893, pp. 75–77.
  • Margarete Hamer-Princess of Lippe-Weißenfeld: 275 years of Lippe-Weißenfeld . Volume 1: Hike from the Lippe region to Lusatia. Based on family history sources. Sollermann, Leer / Ostfriesland 2009, ISBN 978-3-938897-30-0 .
  • Margarete Hamer-Princess of Lippe-Weißenfeld: 275 years of Lippe-Weißenfeld . Volume 2: Hike from Lipper Land via Niederlausitz to Oberlausitz. Based on family history sources. Oberlausitzer Verlag Nürnberger, Spitzkunnersdorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-936867-68-8 .
  • Margarete Hamer-Princess to Lippe-Weißenfeld: Baruth in Saxony 1945–1950. A time study . Oberlausitzer Verlag Nürnberger, Spitzkunnersdorf 2004.
  • Margarete Hamer-Princess zur Lippe-Weißenfeld: Escape of a twelve-year-old. In: Adam von Watzdorf, Agnes von Kopp-Colomb, Henning von Kopp-Colomb (eds.): Book of fate 2 of the Saxon-Thuringian nobility: 1945 to 1989 and from the turn of the century to 2005. CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 2005, ISBN 3-7980-0606-7 , pp. 333–347 (From the German Aristocratic Archives NF 6).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hirth’s Parliamentary Almanac, Volume 1, Berlin 1867 ( Memento from December 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Lippe-Weißenfeld, Armin zur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lippe-Weißenfeld, Armin Graf zur; Lippe-Biesterfeld-Weissenfeld, Arminius zur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberloessnitz
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1899
Place of death Oberschönfeld near Bunzlau , Silesia