Ernst Biesalski (agricultural scientist)

Ernst Biesalski (born February 9, 1907 in Metz , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , † 1964 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German agricultural scientist specializing in agricultural labor.

Life

Ernst Biesalski was born in Lorraine as the son of a general secretary. In 1919 his father had to leave the area that was now part of France. He got jobs in Hanover and later in Mannheim. Here Ernst Biesalski passed his school leaving examination in 1926 and then underwent a two-year agricultural apprenticeship in Württemberg , Baden, Hanover and the Rhineland. From 1928 to 1931 he studied at the Württemberg Agricultural University in Hohenheim and graduated as a qualified farmer . This was followed by activities in Baden and Mecklenburg - here he undertook scientific studies in a settlement area on behalf of the Württemberg department of the German Research Institute for Agriculture and Settlement. This resulted in his dissertation, with which he was awarded a doctorate in 1933 in Hohenheim. agr. PhD. He then worked in the rural advisory service, orienting himself on the ideas of Ludwig-Wilhelm Ries (Potsdam-Bornim) and Gerhardt Preuschen ( Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Agricultural Labor Science in Breslau-Kleinau).

After the end of the Second World War , Biesalski was one of the first scientists to support Prussia with the continuation of his relocated facility: from 1945 at Imbshausen Castle near Northeim and from 1950 at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Agricultural Work Science and Technology (later Max -Planck Institute for Agricultural Work and Agricultural Engineering ) in Bad Kreuznach. Both people were co-founders of the study society for agricultural labor economics. Biesalski became its managing director and chief editor of the monthly Mitteilungen Die Landarbeit, and published numerous essays on labor management problems in family farms. In addition, from 1950 until his untimely death he took part in the congresses of the International Ring for Agricultural Work (IRL), where he gave presentations and evaluated the conferences in the specialist press. He earned merit with the publication of reference works, some in three languages.

In the bibliographic literature he is often confused with Ernst Biesalski (chemist) (1881–1963) , who has the same name but is only very distantly related .

Publications

• Report on the European Agricultural Work Congress 1951 in Bad Kreuznach. Frankfurt a. Main, 1952;
• Agricultural labor science terminology. Volume 1: Subject index, Volume 2: Main work, German-French-English; MPI Bad Kreuznach, 1st edition 1956; 2nd edition 1957; 3rd edition, 1958; 4th edition, 1959; 5th, exp. Ed., Parey, 1954
• Methods and procedures in agricultural labor science: contributions, ed. On the occasion of the institute's 15th anniversary December 6, 1940 - December 6, 1955, MPI Bad Kreuznach, 1956, 276 pp.
• Appropriate and proven hand tools for agriculture. With Eckart Fulda; MPI Bad Kreuznach, 1957 136 pp.
• Contributions to the Congress / 8th International Agricultural Labor Congress, 16. – 20. September 1957 in Bad Kreuznach, 1957, MPI Bad Kreuznach, 136 pp.
• The rural family business - its work economy and its future opportunities. With Gerhardt Preuschen and others; Stuttgart: Ulmer, 1959, 175 pp.

literature

• Theophil Gerber: Personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - Biographisches Lexikon , 4th, exp. Edition. NORA Berlin 2014, p. 73
• Biesalski, Ernst: curriculum vitae in the dissertation (1933), p. 74 - made available by the library of the University of Hohenheim

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: Results and outlooks in the 1st financial year of a Mecklenburg settlement, presented on 6 settler businesses in the Diestelow community .