August Herold
August Karl Herold (born August 7, 1902 in Neckarsulm ; † January 8, 1973 ibid) was a German certified farmer, chief agricultural councilor and vine grower . While working at the Württemberg Institute for Vine Breeding and Grafting and later at the State Training and Research Institute for Viticulture and Fruit Growing (LVWO), both in Weinsberg , he bred such successful grape varieties as Kerner and Dornfelder .
Life
August Herold was born in Neckarsulm as the son of the wine grower and farmer Josef Herold and his wife Josefine, nee. Benz, born. After graduating from high school in Ehingen (Danube) in 1921 , he began studying agriculture at the Agricultural University in Stuttgart-Hohenheim in the winter semester of 1922 , which he completed in summer 1925 as a qualified farmer. After positions in the Palatinate and in Naumburg (State Viticulture Administration; Biological Reichsanstalt für Agriculture and Forestry, Dept. of Vine Breeding), on August 1, 1928, he took over the management of the Württemberg Institute for Vine Breeding and Vines Grafting, based in Weinsberg and experimental and commercial operations in Offenau , Gundelsheim and Lauffen am Neckar . In the following decades Herold devoted himself to the maintenance of the traditional Württemberg grape varieties and the cross-breeding of new grape varieties.
Herold married in 1930. He had two children with his wife Gertrud. He became a soldier on January 10, 1941 and returned to Weinsberg in 1948 after three years of Soviet captivity. The grapevine breeding institute had been incorporated into LVWO as a division a year earlier, and he took over again as head of this division.
In June 1964 Herold was appointed deputy director of the LVWO, but at his own request resigned from the state service on December 31, 1964 because of his poor health. In spring 1965 he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his services to regional viticulture. He died on January 8, 1973 and is buried in Neckarsulm.
Important new grape varieties that emerged from Herold's work are Kerner, Dornfelder , Heroldrebe , Helfensteiner , Juwel u. a. Herold's achievements in the maintenance of the old Württemberg grape varieties (e.g. Trollinger ) and in vine grafting (experiments with grafted and rootstock vines ) are also important.
In Neckarsulm, a memorial plaque on the August-Herold-Weg wine trail , which is located on the southern slope of the Scheuerberg , commemorates him.
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| SURNAME | Herald, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herold, August Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German certified farmer, chief agricultural councilor and vine grower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neckarsulm |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1973 |
| Place of death | Neckarsulm |