Ernst Gustav Doerell (Agronomist)

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Ernst Gustav Doerell (born April 23, 1892 in Aussig ; † March 9, 1963 in Bad Wiessee ) was a German-Austrian agricultural scientist and university professor at the TU Prague .

Life

Doerell was a grandson of the German painter Ernst Gustav Doerell . He attended secondary school in Teplitz-Schönau until 1911 and then the high school graduate course at the Aussiger commercial academy .

After finishing school he temporarily worked as a correspondent in a large chemical factory until he enrolled for four semesters at the German Technical University in Prague for the cultural engineering course . At the beginning of his studies in 1912 he joined the dutiful fraternity of Teutonia Prague . His studies were interrupted by the beginning of the First World War, in which he participated as a war volunteer on the side of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.

In 1919 he passed the 3rd state examination at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1923 as Dr.-Ing.

Afterwards he was appointed professor for soil culture at the German technical university in Prague . His main areas of work were soil science, plant nutrition and fertilization.

In 1938 he became managing director of the “Association of German Fertilizer Manufacturers” and head of the experimental station in Hamburg. After the Second World War he became a district refugee commissioner in Hesse.

From June 1946 he leased a test station in Pinneberg for work for the superphosphate industry. From 1946 to 1951 he was managing director of the “Association of German Fertilizer Manufacturers” in Hamburg.

He is the father of the legal scholar Peter Ernst Doerell .

Works

  • Handbook of the biophysical and biochemical investigation of the soil (with the assistance of Prof. Stoklasa ). Paul Parey Publishing House, Berlin 1926.
  • "Fertilizing the hops"
  • “Hop fertilization” (in Prof. Honcamp's manual )
  • "Technical usability of the air"

literature

  • The German Technical University in Prague 1806-1931; Festschrift on behalf of the college of professors; Prof. D. Alfred Birk ; Prague 1931.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 90.
personal data
SURNAME Doerell, Ernst Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian agricultural scientist and university professor at the TU Prague
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Aussig
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1963
Place of death Bad Wiessee