Dietrich Karl Ernst Fewson

Dietrich Karl Ernst Fewson (born April 23, 1925 in Nörenberg , Pomerania ; † June 29, 2004 in Filderstadt ) was a German agricultural scientist, population geneticist and animal breeder at the University of Hohenheim .

Live and act

Fewson studied agriculture and did his doctorate at the University of Kiel in 1954 under the supervision of Werner Kirsch with the work Investigations on the influence of sperm toxins on sperm, fertility and sex ratio in rabbits and rats . After completing his habilitation, he was appointed professor and director of the Institute for Animal Breeding at the Hohenheim Agricultural University in 1965, succeeding Kirsch . Fewson reorganized the institute, which had grown significantly under Kirsch through the expansion of Gut Lindenhof as a research facility, into the three equal specialist groups of animal breeding, animal husbandry and small animal breeding, with the senior professor taking over the management for two years. Fewson headed the animal breeding group and dealt with breeding planning, selection methods and model calculations for the effectiveness of test systems as well as with heterosis breeding in pigs and sheep until his retirement in 1990.

Main work

• Attempts to rearrange the breeding methods. 1962.
• The most important genetic-statistical terms in animal breeding. 2nd Edition. 1977.

Awards

In 1987 Fewson was awarded the Hermann von Nathusius Medal by the DGfZ for his achievements in animal breeding.

literature

• Theophil Gerber: personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine. Biographical Lexicon. NoRa, Berlin, ISBN 3-936735-67-0 .
• Harald Winkel (Ed.): Festschrift for Günther Franz . History and science in Hohenheim. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1982, ISBN 0-7181-2842-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Fewson on the DGfZ website

Web links

• Literature by and about Dietrich Karl Ernst Fewson in the catalog of the German National Library