Carl Schneider (animal breeder)

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Carl Theodor Schneider (born January 28, 1902 in Leer , East Friesland , † November 8, 1964 in Hofschwicheldt , Peine district , Lower Saxony ) was a German farmer and animal breeder.

Live and act

After graduating from the secondary school in Leer and four years of practical training, he studied agriculture at the University of Göttingen from 1924 to 1927 . This was followed by two years as a breeding manager in a company near Göttingen with a herd of German noble pigs , where he was able to collect material for his later dissertation. After a short employment in the animal breeding institute of the University of Göttingen (with Jonas Schmidt ) he worked from 1929 as animal breeding inspector and scientific assistant at the Prussian experimental and research institute for animal breeding in Tschechnitz near Breslau (director: Wilhelm Zorn ). He received his doctorate in 1933 from the University of Göttingen. phil. In 1935 he became co- tenant of the Ruthe domain near Hildesheim and in 1940 the tenant of the Hofschwicheldt domain near Rosenthal , Peine district, with a farm of 280 hectares. Here he built successful breeding of black and white lowland cattle , merino meat sheep , Cornwall and German noble pigs , warm-blooded and cold-blooded horses as well as poultry and was thus able to successfully apply his scientific knowledge in agricultural practice. This gave him great recognition among his professional colleagues and in numerous voluntary committees.

Main work (selection)

  • Development and status of the Holstein breed in the Hildesheim Cattle Breeding Association. Diploma thesis at the Univ. Göttingen, 1927.
  • About the milk yield of the sows of the German noble pig and the weight development of the piglets during an eight-week suckling period. Dissertation at the Department of Agriculture the Philosopher Faculty of the Univ. Göttingen, Landw. Jahrbücher, Vol. 80, H. 3, 1934, pp. 353-391.

Honorary positions

  • Chairman of the herdbook society Südhannover-Braunschweig
  • Chairman of the Association of German Cattle Breeders (ADR)
  • Deputy Chairman of the Association of German Animal Breeders (ADT)
  • 1949 Co-founder of the European Association for Animal Breeding ( EAAP )
  • 1953 to 1964 Chairman of the Committee for Animal Breeding and Member of the Board of the German Agricultural Society (DLG)
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors of the German Zucht- und Nutzvieh Im- und Export GmbH (IMEX) of the German breeding associations.
  • 1954 Chairman of the Society of Friends of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Animal Breeding and Animal Nutrition Mariensee-Trenthorst
  • Member of the board of trustees of the Federal Research Institute for Dairy Industry in Kiel
  • Board member of the German Society for Zuchtungskunde (DGfZ). Here, together with Prof. W. Zorn, he particularly campaigned for the reorganization after the end of the Second World War.

Awards

literature

  • F. Münsterer: Hermann von Nathusius Medal for Dr. Dr. sc. agr. hc Carl Theodor Schneider, Domain Hofschwicheldt. In: Zücht.kde, 24th year, 1962, pp. 145–146.
  • Previous holder of the Hermann von Nathusius Medal of the DGfZ
  • C. Th. Schneider: own curriculum vitae until 1940 (family archive)
  • Scientific recognition for a practitioner: Honoris causa doctorate went to Dr. C. Th. Schneider-Hofschwicheldt. In: Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung
  • Gerhard Stalmann: Domain Hofschwicheldt. In: Chronicle of the village of Rosenthal. 1978, pp. 137-139 ( online as PDF ; 31.5 MB).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DLG handover of the Carl Theodor Schneider Prize ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dlg.org
  2. ^ Previous holders of the Hermann von Nathusius Medal
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Carl Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and animal breeder
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Leer , East Frisia
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1964
Place of death Hofschwicheldt , Peine district , Lower Saxony