Eckbert Schulz-Schomburgk

Eckbert Schulz-Schomburgk (born May 9, 1921 in Leipzig ; † February 7, 2016 ) was a German agricultural chemist .

Life

Villa Schulz-Schomburgk

Schulz- Schomburgk in 1921, the son of the print shop owner and publisher Herbert Schulz-Schomburgk born in Leipzig. His mother came from the middle German noble family von Görschen . He grew up in a middle-class family in a residential area in Leipzig- Connewitz . From 1931 he attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig . From 1939 to 1940 he studied chemistry a . a. with Burckhardt Helferich at the University of Leipzig .

When the Second World War broke out, he was included in the 11th Infantry Regiment, but then served with the 1st Mountain Division in Mittenwald through contacts between his uncle and Major General Ferdinand Schörner . He was with his unit u. a. involved in the Poland and Russia campaign. Schulz-Schomburgk was trained as a reserve officer at the Theresian Military Academy and was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve on December 1, 1944 .

After a brief internment by the Americans, he was released to live with relatives in the Upper Bavarian community of Hohenaschau im Chiemgau . He was trained as an agricultural assistant from 1946 to 1947 and then began studying agricultural sciences at the Technical University of Munich in Freising-Weihenstephan. From 1949 to 1951 he was assistant to Eduard Hofmann at the Agricultural Technical Institute of the university. In 1950 he completed his studies as a qualified farmer .

Due to the first effects of the Cold War , he left Germany via Genoa for Venezuela in 1951 . He was first placed in an uncle's hacienda. He later lived in Maracay and worked for the Centro de Investigaciones Agronómicas (CIA). His activity consisted of soil determination with Aspergillus . In 1953 he received a professorship for phytochemistry at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas and was director of the laboratory for fertility issues and soil analysis. During his time at the Faculty of Agriculture, he set up chairs for chemistry and in 1956 became full professor for analytical chemistry . From 1958 he researched rock phosphates and presented his results at congresses in Mexico City and Zurich.

From 1961 to 1962 he studied at the Max Planck Institute in Munich and at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . In 1975 he was in Caracas with the dissertation Hypersensitive reactions and the accumulation of polyphenols in tubers and sweet potatoes after infection with Ceratocystis pores to the doctor doctorate .

Eckbert Schulz-Schomburgk lived in Caracas . He died in Maracay on February 7, 2016 .

Fonts (selection)

• together with Nilda Rodríguez: Polifenoles en cultivos y su importancia. Composicíon fenolica de semillas de cacao (Theobroma cacao L.). Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 1998.
• Fragments of a sketchy memory. A curriculum vitae , Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2487-7 . (New edition: From Leipzig to Venezuela. A curriculum vitae. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-5507-8 .)

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