Ernst Brandenburg (Phytomedicist)

Ernst Brandenburg (born September 8, 1901 in Dreschvitz on Rügen , † November 26, 1962 in Gießen ) was a German phytomedicist .

Life

Ernst Brandenburg, son of a farmer, studied at the Agricultural University in Berlin from 1923 and received his doctorate in 1929 at the Agricultural University Bonn-Poppelsdorf with the dissertation " About mosaic diseases on composites ". He later worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Plant Diseases at the University of Bonn and completed his habilitation there in 1939 with the work on the principles of boron use in agriculture, which was widely recognized in specialist circles .

In 1941 Brandenburg was appointed full professor and director of the Institute for Plant Diseases at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna . In the first few years after the Second World War, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Bonn. In 1950 he took over the management of the State Institute for Applied Botany in Hamburg . In 1953 he became director of the newly created institute for phytopathology and holder of the chair of this subject at the then college and current university of Giessen .

Brandenburg's scientific interest focused primarily on research into deficiency diseases in cultivated plants . He recognized the heart and dry rot of the beets (growth inhibition of younger parts of the plant, yellowing of the heart leaves, brown discoloration of the leaf stalks) as symptoms of boron deficiency. During his work in Giessen, research on viral diseases was a focus of his research. Brandenburg died at the age of 61.

literature

• Professor Dr. Ernst Brandenburg † . In: News sheet of the German Plant Protection Service . Volume 15, 1963, pp. 31–32 (with picture).