Claus Wiese

The title of this article is ambiguous. For a German musician with a similar name, see Klaus Wiese (1942–2009).

Claus Wiese (born February 10, 1794 in Bendfeld ; † February 17, 1874 there ) was a German farmer and politician.

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Claus Wiese was a son of the half-hoofed Hinrich Wiese (baptized September 10, 1738 in Giekau ; † July 29, 1807 in Bendfeld) and his wife Antje, née Süverkrübbe (born June 19, 1764 in Höhndorf ; † April 14, 1803 in Bendfeld ). He lost both parents early. His uncle Peter Süverkrübbe from Höhndorf and the Hufner Jacob Göttsch from Prasdorf took over the guardianship. His teacher at the village school Asmus Röhlck advised him to study theology, which he aspired to in 1810 after his confirmation. However, his guardians refused. After two pastors advised Wiese against his desire to study, he began an agricultural training with his guardian Süverkrübbe. During his apprenticeship, he created a notebook in which he entered fables, anecdotes and moralizing texts and in which he copied sample letters from a letter writer. With the help of the organist JF Berendsen from Schönberg , he continued his education and also learned Latin.

In 1815, when he was of age, he took over the ongoing lease for his parents' run-down farm. It was a half-hoof with a size of about thirty hectares. After taking over the lease, Wiese married Becke Stoltenberg on April 15, 1815 (born January 3, 1791 in Höhndorf; † August 30, 1848 in Schönberg). She was a daughter of Höhndorfer Hufner Peter Stoltenberg and his wife Beck, née Stoltenberg. The marriage remained childless.

Since Wiese had leased a hoof , he did not have to do military service. As an autodidact, he orientated himself to magazines and books about new agricultural methods, mainly with the rational agriculture of Albrecht Thaer . Since he wanted to increase his yields based on science, he established modern cultivation methods on his hooves at the time. Wiese reconnected his fields, leveled , marbled , used mineral fertilizers such as imported guano and worked with pipe drainage from 1853 . In addition, he tried new crop rotations and from 1821 switched cattle farming to year-round stable feeding, making him the first farmer in the provost to work in this way.

Wiese initially had failures and financial problems and exchanged written information with Thaer. However, he achieved an extraordinary profitability of his farm and thereby earned himself a high reputation among farmers and landowners of the region, who regarded him as a learned farmer. In addition to working as a farmer, he was interested in (contemporary) history and, for example, wrote a short text on the history of the Propstei in 1843.

Wiese kept extensive and systematic books for forty to fifty years, which are important documents on agricultural history today. In addition to his autobiography, there is his economic book, account books for the years from 1815 to 1861 and, in parts, his work book.

In addition to his work as a farmer, Wiese volunteered: for many years he acted as a credit rating man, authorized representative of the municipality and insurance director, and sometimes also as a deputy in tax matters. For the parish of Giekau, to which Bendfeld belonged at the time, he took over the office of church jury for fifty years. In 1847 he led an excursion by the “Assembly of German Farmers and Foresters” through the region and thus established contacts with Saxony. The provost thereby gained access to new sales markets. As a broker, Wiese took on the handling of sales of grain seeds to Saxony and other countries.

In 1835, the residents of the Preetz electoral district elected Wiese to the Schleswig-Holstein assembly of estates, in which he participated until 1841. He was not particularly visible there, which in his opinion was due to the fact that he was not a good speaker. From 1852 to 1855 he was in the management of the Schleswig-Holstein Agricultural General Association, which later became the Chamber of Agriculture .

In 1839, Wiese spoke when the Danish King Friedrich VI visited. on the Wilhelminenhöhe a greeting on behalf of his constituency. He himself saw this as the high point of his life. In 1868 he welcomed King Wilhelm I of Prussia on behalf of the Plön district.

Honors

In 1851 Wiese received the silver Saxon prize medal “Merit for Agriculture”. In 1870 he was awarded the silver Prussian medal of honor "Merit for the State".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Arnhold Finck: Wiese, Claus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , page 380.
2. ^ Arnhold Finck: Wiese, Claus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , pages 380-381.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Arnhold Finck: Wiese, Claus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , page 381.

literature

• : Wiese, Claus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , pages 380-381.