Carl Boysen (farmer)

Georg Carl Andreas Boysen (born June 13, 1839 in Heide ; † May 6, 1906 in Hamburg ) was a German dairy specialist and slaughterhouse director.

Life

Carl Boysen's grave ,
Ohlsdorf cemetery, Hamburg

As a member of the Boysen family, Carl Boysen was a son of Paul Johann Friedrich Boysen (born June 6, 1803) and his wife Sophia Louise Dorothea, née Schetelig. He attended the Meldorfer School for Academics , moved with the family to his father's new job in Hildesheim and went to a secondary school there. He then received practical agricultural training on the Wrisbergs estate in Alfeld and the ducal estates in Primkenau and Dolzig. During this time he attended lectures at the Agricultural Institute of the University of Halle / Saale. From 1864 he managed the Schode estate of Baron von Cramm. From 1869 to 1871 he was employed by A. Matzen on the Swedish estate Tulesbo. From 1872 to 1876 Boysen worked as an agricultural traveling teacher in the Principality of Waldeck . In 1876 he moved to the Hildesheim administrative region as general secretary of the main agricultural association. In 1883 he received a new position as General Secretary of the Schleswig-Holstein Agricultural Main Association in Kiel .

On January 31, 1884 Boysen married Elisabeth Marie Berghofer-Dalmann in Itzehoe (born April 22, 1863 in Itzehoe; † January 19, 1915 in Hamburg ). She was the daughter of Amandus Berghofer, a businessman from Itzehoe, and his wife Bertha, née Caspersen from Krempe . The Boysen couple had a son and a daughter.

Carl Boysen's grave is on the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square J 10 (south of the Rosengarten ).

Act

Boysen initially worked in the dairy industry, the modern form of which he had become acquainted with in Sweden. During his time in Hildesheim, he worked closely with Eduard Michelsen , who was born in Hadersleben and who ran the agricultural school. In Hildesheim, Boysen gained experience with intensive agriculture and was probably given the job in Kiel for this reason. There he was particularly involved in the organization and establishment of dairy businesses. The organization of the farmers in cooperatives was intended to ensure that smaller farms could also process their milk efficiently. Wilhelm Biernatzki helped him with this .

From 1872 Boysen worked for the “Milchzeitung”. In 1874 he co-founded the "Dairy Association", which became the "German Dairy Association". In 1875, for information purposes , he traveled with other milk experts like Carl Petersen through the Scandinavian countries, which were the best milk processing companies at the time.

In 1889 England feared that foot-and-mouth disease could be brought to the island. Therefore it banned the import of cattle for slaughter, which meant great disadvantages for the export port of Tönning . Cattle from Schleswig-Holstein were now mainly exported via the port of Hamburg . Boysen therefore moved to the Hanseatic city in 1891 as director of the new central slaughterhouse, which began operations the following year. In this function he had to deal with the organization and administration of his authority and in cooperation with the cattle trade associations and to do justice to the interests of the economy and state restrictions.

Boysen directed several exhibitions of the dairy industry and in 1903 the first large beef cattle exhibition in Hamburg. He was appointed to the Royal Prussian Economic Council.

literature

• Dietrich Korth: Boysen, Carl . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 6-1982. ISBN 3-529-02646-8 , pages 33-34.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Celebrity Graves