Arthur Golf

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Richard Arthur Golf (born July 21, 1877 in Beyersdorf , † February 18, 1941 in Leipzig ) was a German agricultural scientist . His teaching and research areas were colonial agriculture and animal breeding . From 1922 until his death he was full professor of the Institute for Animal Breeding and Dairy Farming at the University of Leipzig .

Life

Arthur Golf, son of a manor owner, completed an agricultural apprenticeship on two estates in the province of Saxony after attending grammar school and studied agriculture at the University of Breslau from 1898 , and from 1901 at the Agricultural Academy in Bonn-Poppelsdorf . Here he received lasting suggestions for his further professional life from Ferdinand Wohltmann , the founder of German tropical agriculture science . In 1902, Golf went on a five-month study trip to North America. In 1903 he received his doctorate from the University of Halle (Saale) with a dissertation on the natural foundations of the American irrigation industry. As assistant to Julius Kühn , he stayed at the Agricultural University Institute in Halle and completed his habilitation in 1907 with a paper on the technology of artificial irrigation in North America.

In the same year, Golf traveled to South and South West Africa on behalf of the Reich Colonial Office. Further agricultural study trips to East Africa, Central Asia and numerous European countries followed by 1911. In 1912, Golf was appointed as a scheduled associate professor at the University of Leipzig with a teaching position for colonial and foreign agriculture. During the First World War, in which he participated as Rittmeister of the reserve, he had to interrupt his teaching. In 1922 he was appointed full professor of animal breeding and colonial agriculture . Since then he has been head of the Institute for Animal Breeding and Dairy Farming as full professor (until 1928 Institute for Dairy Farming and Dairying). Although golf had to represent the entire field of animal husbandry and breeding in the academic teaching, his research focus was sheep breeding . His services to the establishment of a breeding facility for Karakul sheep in Germany should be emphasized . Golf was the head of the "magazine for sheep breeding" for many years. His in-depth overview of sheep breeding in the "Handbuch der Landwirtschaft" (1930) is noteworthy. In further research he worked on problems of milk quality . He also carried out experiments in Germany for the first time to use hormones in pig feeding.

Politically, the Gulf tended to folk nationalism early on. In 1920 he joined the German Volkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . The Nazi Party , he joined the 1932nd

Golf was rector of the University of Leipzig from 1933–1935 and 1936/37 , at times dean and vice dean . In his inaugural address as rector on October 31, 1933 on the subject of National Socialism and the University , he declared:

"German national comrades, as a symbol of the fact that the professors and lecturers of our university, including the lecturers, civil servants and scientific assistants, sincerely and honestly commit themselves to serious work in the national (ional) -soc. (Ialistic) sense in association with the student body, do you want to see that the university has overwhelmingly elected a rector wearing the brown dress of honor . He should be a guarantee that the University of Leipzig will do its best to do faithful work in the spirit of Adolf Hitler . May our university march in the forefront of the intellectual revolution that is only just beginning! "

On November 11, 1933, he gave the welcoming speech “With Adolf Hitler for the German people's honor, freedom and justice” for the professors at the German universities and colleges for their commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state .

Golf has held numerous honorary positions in breeders' associations, including the Association of German Karakul Breeders. In 1937 he was accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . In 1939 he was appointed head of examinations at the German Colonial School in Witzenhausen .

Publications (selection)

  • Investigations into the natural foundations of the North American irrigation economy . Diss. Phil. Univ. Hall 1903.
  • The technique of artificial irrigation in North America . Habil.-Schr. Univ. Hall 1907.
  • Agriculture in German = South West Africa. Dry farming and its application in DSWA Verlag Wilhelm Süsserott Berlin 1911 = Koloniale Abhandlungen H. 47/50.
  • The potato order . Berlin 1916 = work by the society to promote the construction and the economically appropriate use of potatoes H. 7.
  • The Soviet Agrarian Reform and the Agricultural Enterprise in Russian Central Asia . Verlag E. Chr. Seyfert Leipzig 1929 = work of the Leipzig economic society.
  • Sheep farming . In: Handbook of Agriculture. Edited by F. Aereboe, J. Hansen and Th. Roemer. Publishing house Paul Parey Berlin 1929, Vol. 5, pp. 265–335.
  • 60 years of the Agricultural Institute of the University of Leipzig 1869-1929 . Published by the Agricultural Institute of the University of Leipzig in 1930.

literature

  • Halle's Academic Vademecum . Vol. 1: Bio bibliography of the active private lecturers and lecturers of the united Friedrichs University Halle-Wittenberg. Halle (Saale) 1910, pp. 288–290 (with list of publications).
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy, Heidelberg 2004, p. 62.
  • Wilhelm Zorn:  Golf, Richard Arthur. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 623 ( digitized version ).
  • Eberhard Schulze : The agricultural sciences at the University of Leipzig 1740-1945 . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig 2006 = Contributions to Leipzig University and Science History, Series B, Vol. 10. In it, among others: Arthur Golf and the Institute for Animal Breeding and Dairy Farming , pp. 228–246 (with picture on p. 229).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Socialism and the University . In: Change of Rectorate at the University of Leipzig on October 31, 1933 , pp. 28f.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 192.
personal data
SURNAME Golf, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Golf, Richard Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Beyersdorf
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1941
Place of death Leipzig