Emil Alfeld

Alfeld's house in Neckarelz

Emil Alfeld (born December 1, 1900 in Neckarelz , Baden , † November 18, 1961 there ) was a German farmer , inventor and musician .

Life

He came from a respected peasant family who provided two mayors of the place between 1861 and 1918, and had a great musical talent that he could not live out at first because he owned his parents' farm in the Alfeld houseinherited and had to cultivate it. As a teenager, he had already made numerous practical arrangements based on his own ideas, including automatic low-voltage lighting for the cellar and a pulley system to transport the firewood. He had also designed a water bike at a young age. In the course of time he made numerous inventions on his farm to make farm work easier, including automatic manure removal from the cattle shed and hay transport with a motor-driven overhead conveyor, but also a tractor roof. His automated farm brought him a lot of free time again, not just as a singing farmer but in which he stood by the agricultural machinery industry as a consultant and also published a textbook on technology in agriculture.

Emil Alfeld was a member of the Board of Trustees for Technology in Agriculture and the Max Eyth Society. In 1951 he received the Justus von Liebig Prize . A plaque from the Heimatverein Neckarelz in front of his former property reminds of the history of the house and of the inventor.

Fonts

• Fritz Liebig: Neckarelz. Diedesheim. Two villages on the path of destiny of our people . Neckarelz and Diedesheim 1972, p. 92/93.
• Technology in the Farm , Hellmut Neureuter Verlag, publisher: Board of Trustees for Technology in Agriculture, Wolfratshausen near Munich, 1951.