Erhardt Berndt

Karl Ewald Erhardt Berndt , also Erhard Berndt (born May 8, 1900 in Dresden , † after 1954) was a German agricultural scientist .

Life

Erhardt Berndt, son of a businessman , received his school-leaving certificate in 1918 and initially worked as a practical farmer. From June 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier , returned the next year and finished his agricultural apprenticeship. From 1920 he completed an agricultural degree at the universities of Hohenheim , Göttingen and Leipzig . In Leipzig he finished in 1925 graduated with his doctorate to Dr. phil; his dissertation was entitled Studies in the German Meat Wool Sheep Farm with special consideration of various performance factors .

After completing his doctorate, Berndt worked as an assistant in the pedigree sheep stable at the university. Then he went to the Institute for Animal Breeding in this position. In 1929 he was finally qualified as a professor by the university with his work Chemisch-Physikalische Blutuntersuchungen, their value for assessing constitution and performance, and a contribution to determining blood groups for the purpose of proving individuality (based on experimental tests on the bark) . He then lectured in agriculture at the university, and was also employed as managing director of the Leipzig milk supply association and the Saxony dairy association.

On December 1, 1930 Berndt became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 381.638), and he also worked in the cultural and political department of the NSDAP's district leadership. Berndt was also a member of the SA from 1933 . In 1933/34 he also acted as a consultant for dairy farming in the agricultural policy office of the Saxon Gauleitung , after he was also responsible for race issues from 1932. Along with Arthur golf he presented in 1933 the writing proposals to implement an agricultural Policy Program for the reconstruction of the agricultural processing industry with the objectives of ensuring the nation's food from German soil to Adolf Hitler . In that year he also became head of the Leipzig Association of Non-Ordinaries . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

In February 1934 Berndt went to the University of Riga as a visiting professor . In the summer of 1936 he was appointed as a non-scheduled associate professor at the University of Leipzig. In 1936/1937 he was also a deputy chair for animal breeding at the University of Halle . From 1938 he also worked as a full professor at the University of Riga until 1939 and from the next year at the University of Sofia . There he worked until 1942, where he was also an advisory board member of the German scientific institute for research into animal breeding and dairy farming.

After 1942 Berndt was a senior war administrator at the East Economic Staff . After 1945 he is mentioned as a private scholar in Halle.

Fonts

• Chemical-physical blood tests, their value for assessing the constitution and performance, and a contribution to the determination of blood groups for the purpose of proof of individuality. After experimental studies on the bark (Berlin 1929)
• Milk, its importance, investigation, treatment and utilization (Leipzig 1930)
• The latest research in the field of pig performance testing, its operational and economic significance (Leipzig 1930)
• Pig breeding and pig diseases (Leipzig 1930)

literature

• Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 404

Web links

• Erhardt Berndt in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Entry on Erhardt Berndt in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis