Carl Pfeiffer (oenologist)

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Carl Friedrich Pfeiffer (born August 17, 1872 in Namslau , † February 6, 1946 in Radebeul ) was a German agricultural councilor and oenologist . After the phylloxera disaster, Pfeiffer rebuilt the Loessnitz viticulture and was also chairman of the Saxon Wine Society .

Life

Wächterberg with residential building
Residential building on Wächterberg, Kastler winery on the 2008 open winery day

Pfeiffer completed an apprenticeship as a gardener with a focus on viticulture. After years of wandering, he settled in the wine town of Oppenheim in 1901 .

In 1912 he received the offer of the newly founded Rebschulverein Meißen to become a specialist teacher for fruit growing and viticulture at the technical school.

From 1913, the Council of Agriculture, Carl Pfeiffer rebte with the introduced 1905 Pfropfrebe the Lößnitz after local phylloxera disaster again, this he moved his official residence to Oberlößnitz . In 1916 he took over the management of the vine refining station located near Hoflößnitz , from which the wine-growing research and teaching institute emerged in 1927 . He also campaigned for the improvement of the quality of the Loessnitz wine and introduced mineral fertilization.

In 1919 Pfeiffer reported to the wine-growing personalities present at the wine conference of the German Agricultural Society: “There is new life everywhere in Saxon viticulture; if this is still young, the current trend is of rare freshness, carried by energetic will and the unrestricted trust of the circles involved and the entire population. "

Also in 1913, as the successor to the Saxon Viticulture Society, the Association for the Elevation of Viticulture in the Lößnitz was founded , from which the new Saxon Viticulture Society emerged in 1921 . From this in turn the Weinbauverband Sachsen emerged in 1936 , and Carl Pfeiffer took over the management.

In 1938, the Saxon wine cooperative was founded in Hoflößnitz , which was initially housed in Zitzschewig until it moved to Meißen in 1940. Pfeiffer ran their business until 1942. In 1955 it became the Saxon Winzergenossenschaft Meißen .

In 1939 Pfeiffer retired, during which he worked continuously on the Wächterberg vineyard in the Zitzschewig district of Radebeul in Knollenweg, which was laid out in 1935 for his long-time employee Magdalena Schlegel . This vineyard is surrounded by a fence like a clos . Pfeiffer died in 1946 and was buried in the nearby Johannesfriedhof .

In 1954 a street in Radebeul was named in his honor.

(The current owners, who run the small Kastler Wein winery there, received the Radebeul builder award in 2003 for the exemplary renovation of the wooden system house built in 1936 in an exposed location on the Wächterberg vineyard .)

literature

  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
  • Maren Gündel: Carl Pfeiffer - a pioneer of Radebeul viticulture. (PDF; 715 kB) In: Radebeuler Official Journal. Large district town of Radebeul, August 2012, p. 3 , accessed on August 4, 2012 (with a photo by Pfeiffer).
  • Closer, Liselotte; Förster, Frank: Carl Pfeiffer: Promoter of Saxon viticulture . Ed. Reintzsch, Radebeul 1996. ISBN 3-930846-07-1

Web links

Commons : Systemholzhaus Knollenweg 8 (Radebeul)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Weinland Sachsen Book 7.1. ( Memento from July 16, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Builder Prize 2003, Category: Renovation of old buildings
  3. ↑ SAI Scharrer Architects & Engineers: Weinberghaus Knollenweg 8 - 01445 Radebeul ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfeiffer, Carl Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural council and oenologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Namslau
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1946
Place of death Radebeul