Bernhard Husfeld

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Bernhard Husfeld (born May 9, 1900 in Berlin ; died March 2, 1970 in Edenkoben ) was a German agronomist and specialist in vine growing and viticulture .

Live and act

Husfeld was the son of a businessman. From 1918 to 1922 he studied agricultural science at the Agricultural University in Berlin. He then worked as a research assistant in the working group of Erwin Baur , the first director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research in Müncheberg . Husfeld was involved in the breeding of a bitter-free lupine , the so-called sweet lupine, as well as in the breeding trials of vines with resistance to phylloxera and powdery mildew diseases . In 1932 he received his doctorate from the University of Giessen with a thesis on the breeding of plasmopara-resistant vines.

After Erwin Baur's death at the end of 1933, he took over the acting management of the institute. In critical historical documentation it is assumed that he was chosen because he was a member of the NSDAP and was close to the Friends of the SS . This statement is not mentioned in other biographical sources, but is also not disputed. After Wilhelm Rudorf was appointed as the new director of the institute in the spring of 1936, Husfeld was the latter's deputy and head of department until 1942. From 1943 to 1946 he headed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Grapevine Breeding Research . At the time of National Socialism he was also Reich Commissioner for Vine Breeding .

In 1945, together with Otto Schröck, he reopened the institute at the Müncheberg site as the central research institute for plant breeding . With the hybrids brought to safety, he was able to continue the research work on the varieties at the Geilweilerhof . The Siegfriedrebe and Aris grape varieties were created . He founded the Research Society for Vine Breeding , which was taken over in 1966 by the Federal Minister of Nutrition .

In 1952 Husfeld was appointed a member of the Accademia Italiana della vite e del vino in Siena . In the same year he became head of the grapevine breeding working group at the Research Ring of German Viticulture. From 1961 he was a lecturer at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , where he was appointed honorary professor in 1963. In 1965 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Hohenheim . In the same year he received the Viticole diploma from the Association des Vignerons des Cotes du Rhône . In addition, Husfeld worked as an editor in magazines on plant breeding and organized specialist conferences on viticulture.

Fonts

  • About the breeding of plasmopara-resistant vines , Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1932 ISBN 3-662-37471-4
  • with Joachim Hackbarth : The sweet lupine: Breeding, cultivation and utilization of a new crop , Parey-Verlag, Berlin 1939

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhardt Alleweldt: Bernhard Husfeld on his 100th birthday on May 9, 2000 . In: Vitis 39 (1), 2000. pp. 1f.
  2. ↑ a b History of Wine . Retrieved December 5, 2016
  3. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 276
  4. ^ Susanne Heim , Hildegard Kaulen: Müncheberg - Cologne - The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research . In: Peter Gruss , Reinhard Rürup , Susanne Kiewitz (eds.): Places of thought - Max Planck Society and Kaiser Wilhelm Society - Breaks and Continuities, 1911–2011. Sandstein-Verlag and Max Planck Society, Dresden 2011 p. 208
  5. ↑ Reinhard Rürup: Fates and Careers. Memorial book for the researchers expelled from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society by the National Socialists. Wallstein-Verlag 2008. pp. 88 and 96 ISBN 978-3-8924-4797-9
  6. ^ Bernhard vom Brocke (Ed.): The Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society and its institutes. Studies on their history: the Harnack principle. De Gruyter Berlin 1996 ISBN 978-3-1101-5483-2
  7. ↑ Susanne Heim: "The pure air of scientific research." On the self-image of the scientists of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Edited by the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. V., Berlin 2002, p. 12 online . Retrieved December 13, 2016
  8. ↑ The institute existed from 1942 until its dissolution in 1949, see manual on the history of the institute by KWG and MPG, page 1448 ff. Online, 75 MB
  9. ^ Website of the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research ZALF eV Müncheberg . Retrieved December 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Husfeld, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agronomist and specialist in vine growing and viticulture
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 2nd 1970
Place of death Edenkoben