Carl Dobler (politician, 1930)

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Carl Dobler (born January 4, 1930 in Ludwigsburg-Pflugfelden ) is a German agricultural politician . He was president of the Württemberg-Baden farmers 'association and vice-president of the German farmers' association .

Carl Dobler in the 1970s

Family and work

Dobler is the son of the farmer Jakob Dobler (1886–1980), who together with Heinrich Stooß founded the state farmers' association in the former American occupation zone Württemberg-Baden in 1946 . He grew up as the third of four siblings, his godfather was the doctor Theodor Dobler .

After graduating from Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium Ludwigsburg , Dobler studied agriculture at the Universities of Bonn and Hohenheim , graduating as a qualified farmer in 1954. From 1956, he ran a 37 hectare family farm in Hemmingen (Württemberg) . The focus of production was dairy farming and agriculture with grain and sugar beet.

Dobler was born from 1957 to 1981 with Otti Dobler. Mauch (1931-2007) married, from this marriage a son and a daughter were born. Since 1982 he has been with Elfriede Dobler, geb. Ripps married.

Professional commitment

Dobler was active in various local, national and European professional bodies and associations from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, some in a leading position.

From 1968 to 1989 he was President of the Württemberg-Baden Farmers 'Association and from 1969 also Vice President of the German Farmers' Association (as deputy to Constantin Freiherr von Heeremann ). As farmers president, Dobler advocated the following issues:

  • Implementation of an active pricing policy
  • Establishing self-help institutions (e.g. machine ring)
  • Creation of an independent agricultural social insurance
  • Development of independent accounting and tax advisory services

Dobler represented the farming profession in numerous agricultural industry associations and cooperative institutions. From 1969 to 1992 he also held positions in what was then the Association of European Agriculture (CEA) - from 1972 as President of the 1st and 2nd Commission within the Steering Committee. In 2004, the CEA merged with COPA COGECA , the European umbrella association of farmers ("European farmers' association") and the European umbrella association of agricultural cooperatives .

In the Central Committee of German Agriculture , Dobler headed a working group for a market-compliant quantity control to stabilize the European milk and meat markets at the producer level since 1970. Their proposals led to the introduction of milk quotas in the EC in 1984 .

Furthermore, he worked his whole life for the expansion of vocational education in agriculture in order to reconcile the contemporary agricultural policy and economic objectives with the experiences and values ​​of farmers and their families. Three areas were particularly important to him:

  • active participation in professional and state educational bodies,
  • the intensive contact with the Bund der Landjugend as the rural-rural youth organization, and
  • the development of the Hohenheim Farmer's School as a rural folk high school , which was operated from 1955 to 1993 as an educational institution of the Württemberg-Baden farmers' association. Dobler was chairman of the board there for almost two decades.

During his teaching, he was primarily a guest lecturer in the agricultural policy seminars at the University of Hohenheim and at what was then the Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. To this day, Dobler is a member of the administrative board of the Universitätsbund Hohenheim, the association of friends and sponsors of the University of Hohenheim.

Agricultural policy model

In all professional activities, Dobler always represented the model of the family farm . In doing so, he positioned himself very early on against the counter-model of industrial agriculture . Based on this conviction, with his commitment at national and European level, he made a significant contribution to the fact that the so-called Mansholt Plan initiated by the former President of the European Commission Sicco Mansholt at the end of the 1960s was ultimately not implemented.

honors and awards

Writings and literature

  • Dobler was the initiator and regular author of the Green Series , a series of publications published by the Württemberg-Baden farmers' association between 1969 and 1986 in a total of 14 volumes on current agricultural policy issues.
  • Landesbauernverband in Baden-Württemberg eV (Ed.): For the farmers in Baden Württemberg - 50 years of the Landesbauernverband , Verlag Eugen Ulmer 1997.
  • Henning Brand-Saßen, Friedrich Golter, Manfred Köhne, Rudolf Schnieders: Agriculture in transition . Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5776-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 70 years of farmers' association - the changing profession. In: www.lbv-bw.de. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .
  2. ^ Deutscher Bauernverband eV (Ed.): German farmers correspondence . No. 06/2008 . Deutscher Agrar-Verlag GmbH, p. 12 .
  3. ↑ 60 years of DBV - a changing profession. In: Deutsche Bauern-Korrespondenz, issue 6/2008. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .
  4. ^ Landesbauernverband in Baden-Württemberg eV (Ed.): For the farmers in Baden Württemberg - 50 years of the state farmers' association . Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 1997, p. 148-149 .
  5. ^ Henning Brand-Saßen, Friedrich Golter, Manfred Koehne, Rudolf Schnieders: Agriculture in transition . Eugen Ulmer, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5776-1 .
  6. ^ Hohenheim farming school
  7. ↑ Board of Directors. In: unibund.uni-hohenheim.de. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Portrait on the website of the University of Hohenheim
  9. ^ Green series in the Landesarchiv BW
personal data
SURNAME Dobler, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural politician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg-Pflugfelden