Arno Columbus

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Arno Columbus (born January 25, 1907 in Neuhaus near Paderborn, † April 1, 1960 in West Berlin ) was a German agricultural scientist .

Life

Arno Columbus, whose father was tax inspector, passed the school leaving examination at the Humanist Gymnasium in Wiesbaden in 1927 . He then went through an agricultural apprenticeship and then studied at the Agricultural University in Berlin . The diploma he received in 1933. Even his doctorate he became Doctor of Agricultural Sciences. His dissertation was the quantitative course of the evacuation of the rumen in sheep and goats . From 1933 to 1941 he was a member of the Reiter-SA in the team rank of Rottenführer .

In 1934 Columbus became an extraordinary assistant at the Institute for Animal Nutrition at the University of Berlin . In 1938 he was promoted to scheduled assistant. As an upper private he took part in the Second World War from 1941 to 1943, particularly in Russia and Norway . He was released because he was considered unfit for service. In 1945 he was drafted into the Volkssturm .

In 1945 Columbus was released from captivity. In Berlin he received a research assignment , but had to leave the next year in the course of denazification , since he had been a member of the NSDAP from 1937 . In 1949 he was awarded at the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Halle a teaching position . For animal nutrition, he was finally habilitated at the Humboldt University in Berlin with his work The variability of protein value under different conditions after metabolic tests on growing pigs .

In 1951 Columbus became professor with a chair at the University of Halle and at the same time director of the newly founded Institute for Animal Nutrition. There he dealt with animal feed science and researched protein metabolism in feeding experiments. He also worked as chairman of the working group on feeding advice . In this office he advised and wrote articles and essays. In 1956 he was denounced for saying that it was a waste of money to expand the National People's Army . Because he held honorary positions, this denunciation had no further consequences against him. Columbus held the professorship and the directorate of the institute until his death.

Arno Columbus died of a heart attack in 1960 at the age of 53 . His grave is in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery in Berlin.

Fonts

  • The quantitative course of the emptying of the rumen in sheep and goats, taking into account the total emptying of the gastrointestinal tract (Wiesbaden 1934).
  • The variability of the protein value under different conditions after metabolic tests on growing pigs (Habilitation thesis, 1950).
  • Yearbook for Animal Nutrition and Feeding (Berlin, Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag)

literature

  • Gerber, Theophil: Personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - biographer. Lexicon, NORA Berlin, 4th ext. Ed., 2014, p. 123
  • Jeroch, Böttcher, Nonn and Zausch: Institute for Animal Nutrition and Storage. In: 50 Years of the Faculty of Agriculture / Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg: 1949 - 1997. Halle, 151–161
  • Columbus, Arno. In: Professor catalog of the University of Halle

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 63.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 632.
personal data
SURNAME Columbus, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhaus
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1960
Place of death West Berlin