Christian Mommsen

Christian Ludolph Momsen , later spelled Mommsen (* May 1, 1868 at Gut Toftum near Emmelsbüll , Krs. Tondern , Prov. Schleswig-Holstein; † February 20, 1927 in Halle ad Saale) was a German certified farmer and animal breeding director.

Live and act

Mommsen was born as the son of the landowner Momme Johann Momsen, underwent practical training as an agricultural assistant and from 1891 managed his father's estate in Toftum. From 1898 on he attended the Royal Prussian Agricultural Academy in Poppelsdorf near Bonn and graduated as a qualified farmer . In addition, he was a research assistant to Eberhard Ramm and then assistant to the academic estate management. In 1901 he was one of the first applicants to pass the Prussian exam to become an animal breeding inspector as aptitude for "higher administrative service" in the field of animal breeding and was employed on April 1 of the same year at the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Saxony Halle (Saale). He interrupted this activity from 1902 to 1907 because he was editor-in-chief in Leipzig for the magazine Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Tierzucht .

He then continued his work from Halle (Saale) as head of the animal breeding department in the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Saxony with the rank of animal breeding director. In addition, he had to fulfill the following tasks for the Prussian administrative districts of Magdeburg, Merseburg and Erfurt (for Northern Thuringia) as well as the province of Saxony:

• Establishment and staffing of the animal breeding offices to advise the herdbook breeders as well as supervision of father animal husbandry and animal population development
• Activity as general manager of the umbrella organization of animal breeding associations in the province of Saxony
• Activity as managing director and breeding manager of the animal breeding associations for cattle and pigs
• Support with the breeding management of the horse breeding associations
• Structure and expansion of the organized milk performance test
• Preparation and implementation of central animal shows and sales events for all animal species
• Professional representation in the field of animal production towards the agricultural administration
• Preparation of annual and breeding reports for the important animal species for the region
• Training of suitable candidates for the higher and higher animal breeding service

Publications (selection)

• Position and tasks of animal husbandry and husbandry in modern, intensive arable farming. Hanover: Schaper, 1913, 145 p. Work of the DGfZ, issue 7, 2nd edition 1920, 162 p., Issue 17;
• Common instructions for feeding cattle and pigs. Leipzig: Reichenbach, 1914, 123 pp.
• Development of horse breeding and the horse breeding association of the province of Saxony: the most important bloodlines of the breeding district to date; published for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Horse Breeding Association of the Province of Saxony. Halle adS, 1924, 173 pp.
• List of state and private stallions covering in the province of Saxony in 1925 according to districts and breeding locations, together with the breeding and foaling results from 1921/22 to 1923/24: Halle (Saale): Verlag der Landwirtschaftskammer für die Provinz Sachsen, 1925, 72 p .
• List of state and private stallions covering in the province of Saxony in 1926 according to districts and breeding locations, together with the breeding and foaling results from 1923/24 to 1924/25. With Ernst Hohnbaum, Halle (Saale): Publishing house of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Saxony, 1926, 56 pp.

Appreciation

With great knowledge and organizational talent, Mommsen knew how to bundle the individual associations for the important livestock species into state organizations and also to include the associations of the Principality, from 1918 of the Free State of Anhalt in the development. The breeders in today's Saxony-Anhalt area, and especially those in the Altmark, have made great progress with horses (German draft horse), cattle (black and white lowland cattle and Höhenfleckvieh) as well as pigs (German white noble pig and refined country pig) at DLG shows occupy more top places and thus prove the increased level of the region. Mommsen trained a new generation of animal breeding directors such as Ernst Hohnbaum (Erfurt), Leo Abl (Erfurt, Halle), Heinrich Brackelmann (Sangerhausen, Magdeburg) and Hermann Hahn (Naumburg, Halle, Stendal).

Mommsen had an influence on the development of the following important animal breeding associations:

• Association for the Breeding of Heavy Work Horses in the Province of Saxony (1899–1912).
• Horse Breeding Association of the Province of Saxony (from 1912)
• Association for the breeding of grafted country pigs in the province of Saxony (1903-1920)
• Association of precious pig breeders in the province of Saxony (1913–1920)
• Pig breeders association in the province of Saxony (from 1920 as an association)
• Association for the breeding of black and white lowland cattle in the province of Saxony (from 1899)
• Association of Milk Control Associations in the Province of Saxony (from 1925)
• State sheep farmers association in the province of Saxony

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Mommsen in the catalog of the German National Library

literature

• Gerber, Theophil: Personalities from agriculture and forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - Biographisches Lexikon, NORA Berlin, 4th exp. Ed., 2014, p. 515
• Christian Mommsen died. In: Journal for pig breeding, pig fattening and pig keeping, No. 10, 1927, pp. 137/138
• Boettcher, Hartmut : On the development of pig breeding in Saxony-Anhalt. German Pig Museum, 2010, pp. 11–12
• Scheiber, Klaus: The development of cattle breeding in Thuringia. Part 1 in 5th history booklet of the TLL Jena, 1998, pp. 17–52; Part 2 in 6th history booklet of the TLL Jena, 2000, Jena, pp. 33-67
• Walther, Eberhard and Kürbs, Rolf: The history of horse breeding in Thuringia. In: 8th history booklet of the TLL Jena, 2002, Jena, pp. 15–52
• Evangelical Parish Office Emmelsbüll-Neugalmsbüll: Extract from the baptismal register from 1868

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Toftum website ( Memento of the original from March 5, 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.  
2. ^ Chamber of Agriculture of the Province of Saxony