Carl-Heinrich Roemer

Carl-Heinrich Roemer (born August 15, 1903 in Erbes-Büdesheim ( Alzey-Worms district ); † April 27, 2000 in Büren , ( Paderborn district )) was a German farmer and plant breeder . In 1955 he became head of the Bundessortenamt in Rethmar near Hanover .

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Carl-Heinrich Roemer was born on August 15, 1903 in Erbes-Büdesheim as the son of Erwin Roemer and Cornelia, b. Giesen, born. At the age of 16, his father died, who had been mayor of the local community since 1913 and who held the title of economic council. After studying agriculture at the University of Munich , from which he graduated with a diploma, Roemer received his doctorate in Munich in 1929 under Kießling and then devoted himself to plant breeding. Roemer was a specialist in seeds . In his home parish, he ran a seed business that had been in the family's possession since 1854, then became a crown property and finally became a state domain in 1919 .

On May 29, 1932 Roemer was elected mayor of Erbes-Büdesheim. Bourgeois and National Socialists had supported the candidacy. With a turnout of 95 percent, he prevailed against his competitor Herrberg (center) with 290 to 268 votes. Roemer held the office until the end of the war in 1945.

At the time of the Third Reich , Roemer was a member of the NSDAP and storm leader in SA-Reitersturm 4/150 Alzey. In 1934 he spoke in Udenheim at an event on the subject of “Natural law foundations for the demeanor of the people”, emphasized that peoples perished through degeneration, and referred to the “Nordic race” as the “crown of the German people”. In 1938 Roemer was appointed seed commissioner to Berlin and took over a. a. the chairmanship of the Reich Association of German Plant Breeding. During the riots in the wake of the November pogroms in 1938 , seven Jewish citizens were taken into protective custody in Erbes-Büdesheim at the instigation of the Offenheim SA storm leader "in agreement" with Mayor Roemer . The next day one of the prisoners was deported via Worms to the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar .

In 1938 in the position of "Special Representative for the Production Battle in Hesse-Nassau", Roemer was entrusted with the position of "Special Representative for Practical Training in Agriculture" in the spring of 1939 (it can be proven that he was still responsible for this in 1942) and held on to his legacy -Büdesheimer Schlossgut - officially the seed construction site of the State Farmers' Association of Hessen-Nassau - for example agricultural courses and apprentice exams. At a seed cultivation conference in Alzey, he represented the main department head of the Hessen-Nassau state farmers' association. In the following year he sat - appointed by the supervisory authority - on the administrative board of the Kreissparkasse Alzey .

In 1942 the model company he ran was opened by Gauleiter Sprenger as part of the “5. Performance struggle of German companies ”. Two years later Roemer was in the position of a Reichsfachwart (in the Reichsnährstand). In March 1945 he fled from the advancing American troops from Erbes-Büdesheim.

After the Second World War , he made a decisive contribution to the rebuilding of plant production in West Germany . From 1948 to 1954 Roemer was managing director of the plant breeding department of the re-established German Agricultural Society (DLG) . In addition, since it was founded in 1950, he was the head of the Working Group of German Plant Breeding Associations. In 1955, he was entrusted with the management of the Bundessortenamt, Rethmar department, and did pioneering work in this position.

Roemer published several specialist articles and gave lectures on plant breeding. He was also active in the DLG main committee for many years. In 1963 he received the Max Eyth commemorative silver coin for his services to the DLG .

Most recently Roemer was President of the Bundessortenamt. He left this office at the end of August 1968 for reasons of age. On March 27, 1969, he was honored with the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Roemer died at the age of 96 on April 27, 2000 in Rödinghausen-Bieren.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Seed economy: united with SAFA . Bad-Godesberg 1963. Vol. 15 or 16 (born 1963), p. 212.
2. ↑ Rheinhessische Volksblätter 1932 . Alzey 1932. (May 30).
3. ↑ Mainzer Anzeiger 1934 . Mainz 1934. No. 3 (4.1.), P. 9f.
4. ↑ Dieter Hoffmann: "... we are Germans." On the history and fate of the rural Jews in Rheinhessen. Alzey 1992, p. 267.
5. ↑ ibid. , P. 257f.
6. ↑ Rheinhessische Volksblätter 1938 . Alzey 1938. No. 71 (14.3.).
7. ↑ ^{a b} Rheinhessische Volksblätter 1939 . Alzey 1939. No. 74 (16.3.).
8. ↑ Mainzer Anzeiger 1942 . Mainz 1942. No. 20 (24.1.), P. 6.
9. ↑ Rheinhessische Volksblätter 1939 . Alzey 1939. No. 96 (7.4.).
10. ↑ Rheinhessische Volksblätter 1939 . Alzey 1939. No. 64 (6.3.).
11. ↑ Kreissparkasse Alzey (ed.): Annual report of the Kreissparkasse Alzey - an institution under public law with its own legal personality - for the year 1940 (103rd business year). Alzey, undated (1941?) , P. 2.
12. ↑ Mainzer Anzeiger 1942 . Mainz 1942. No. 131 (8.6.), P. 5.
13. ^ Rheinhessische Volksblätter 1944 . Alzey 1944. No. 238 (August 31).
14. ^ German Agricultural Society (ed.): Communications from the DLG . Frankfurt 1968. Vol. 83 (born 1968), p. 1336.
15. ^ Seed economy: united with SAFA . Bad-Godesberg 1969. Vol. 21 (born 1969), p. 352.

literature

• o. V .: Who's who in Germany . Vol. 2 (M-Z). Ottobrunn b. Munich 1972.
• Theophil Gerber: Personalities from agriculture and forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - Biographisches Lexikon . Vol. 2 (M-Z). Berlin 2005.
• Karl Müller: History of Erbes-Büdesheim . Alzey 2001.