Erhard Jung

Erhard Jung (born August 17, 1902 in Kreuzburg , Upper Silesia , † April 26, 1945 in Berlin-Tempelhof ) was a German geologist and university professor.

Life

From 1922 Jung studied agriculture and chemistry in Bonn and at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University , where he became a member of the Corps Marcomannia Breslau in 1923 after his younger brother Albrecht († 1994) . He graduated in 1926 as a qualified farmer . From 1928 he was an assistant at the Universities of Freiburg and Breslau. In 1931 he was in Breslau magna cum laude for Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1924 to 1931, Jung was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten . In 1932 he joined the NSDAP; In 1933 he became a member of the SS. There he received the rank of SS-Obersturmführer in 1939. From 1935 he was an associate professor for geology and soil science at the Hohenheim Agricultural University . In 1937 he was appointed personal professor there. From 1938 to 1941 he was rector in Hohenheim. For the army moved in, he fell as a captain in the final stages of World War II in Berlin. He had received the Iron Cross 1st class.

Publications

• Physico-chemical investigations on brown humic acids . In: Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. 9. 1938, pp. 248-273, doi : 10.1002 / jpln.19380090121
• For knowledge of the clay-humus binding . In: Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. 32. 1943, pp. 325-336, doi : 10.1002 / jpln.19430320602

literature

• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 86.
• Ernst Klein (edit.): The academic teachers of the University of Hohenheim (Agricultural University) 1818–1968 , Stuttgart 1968, p. 80.

Web links

• Literature by and about Erhard Jung in the catalog of the German National Library
• Erhard Jung, Hohenheim ( Memento from June 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Rector's speech in 1938

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hohenheim's directors, rectors and presidents ( memento of the original from March 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 96/297
3. ↑ Dissertation: New experimental studies on the aggregating effect of frost on the ground .
4. ↑ Rector's speech in 1938: The importance of the soil in the German repopulation of the East .