Bruno Tacke

Bruno Tacke (born August 26, 1861 in Wissen an der Sieg ; † October 28, 1942 in Hohenlimburg near Hagen / Westphalia ) was a German moor researcher and soil scientist .

biography

Tacke studied since 1880 Science in Giessen and Berlin and in 1884 with the animal physiological dissertation About the importance of combustible gases in the animal organism at the University of Berlin Dr. phil. PhD. During his studies in Giessen he became a member of the Academic-Natural Science Association in the winter semester of 1880/81 , which later became the Frankonia Giessen student union , from which he left around 1905. After four years as an assistant at the agricultural chemistry laboratory of the Agricultural Academy Bonn-Poppelsdorf , he got a job in 1889 as the first assistant at the peat research station in Bremen . From October 1891 to October 1929 he was the head of this research station, which under his aegis developed into an important scientific institution.

With his research work, Tacke made a significant contribution to the fact that the agricultural cultivation and utilization methods on the various bog locations could be further improved. Tacke has edited several books on bog culture and published over 300 scientific articles. Most of them appeared in the communications of the Association for the Promotion of Moor Culture in the German Empire . In 1912, Tacke founded the Yearbook of Moorkunde , which he edited alone for many years, most recently with Friedrich Brüne .

Honors

• In 1898 Tacke was appointed professor and in 1912 a secret councilor.
• 1928 awarded him the Agricultural University Bonn-Poppelsdorf the honorary doctorate .
• In 1941, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, he was awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science .
• The municipality of Tackesdorf in Schleswig-Holstein was named after him
• The Bruno-Tacke Street in Bremen - Schwachhausen was named after him 1,962th

Major works

• The north German moors (with Bernhard Lehmann). Verlag Velhagen & Klasing Bielefeld 1912; 2nd edition, ibid. 1926 = Geography Monographs, Vol. 27.
• Comparative fertilization tests on arable and meadow land, carried out in the years 1903–1918 by the moor test station in Bremen . Verlag Paul Parey Berlin = work of the German Agricultural Society H. 319.
• The scientific foundations of bog culture . Verlag Paul Parey Berlin 1930 = The modern peat culture H. 1.
• Lower Saxony's moors and their use (with Gustav Keppeler ). Hanover 1930; = Publications of the Economic Society for the Study of Lower Saxony eV Series A, H. 13. - Second through. u. supplemented edition ibid. 1941.

literature

• F. Brüne: Privy Councilor Dr. Dr. eh Bruno Tacke 80 years. In: Treatises of the Natural Science Association in Bremen. Volume 32, 1942, Issue 1 (Tacke booklet), pp. 1–37 (with picture and list of publications; PDF on ZOBODAT ).
• W. Baden: Go. Reg.-Rat Prof. Dr. Dr. H. c. Bruno Tacke on her 100th birthday. In: Agricultural Research. Volume 14, 1961, pp. 211-215 (with picture).
• F. Brüne: Bruno Tacke, head of the moor experimental station. In: Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Bremen 1969, pp. 513-514.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Berger, Gernot Schäfer: The Giessen fraternity Frankonia. 1872-1972. Giessen 1972, p. 178.

Web links

Wikisource: Bruno Tacke  - Sources and full texts