Ernst Heinrich (agronomist)

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Ernst Heinrich (born May 17, 1792 , † August 20, 1862 in Proskau , Province of Silesia ) was a German agricultural scientist. From its foundation in 1847 until his death in the summer of 1862, he headed the Royal Prussian Agricultural Academy in Proskau .

Life path

Ernst Heinrich was the younger son of the general tenant, who died in 1812, of Count von Kospoth 's majorate estates such as Kritschen (Krzeczyn) and others at Oels in Silesia, a royal Prussian senior bailiff . From 1806 Ernst Heinrich attended the pedagogy in Züllichau and then the University of Frankfurt a. d. Or where he studied law. When in 1811 the Brandenburg University in Frankfurt an der Oder was closed or relocated to Breslau , he continued his law studies first at the University of Breslau and in Leipzig a year later .

In February 1813, at the beginning of the wars of liberation , he voluntarily entered the 1st Silesian hussar regiment , where he was promoted to second lieutenant after a few months . In the battle of Kulm in Bohemia on 29./30. Heinrich was wounded in August 1813. In all other battles and skirmishes in which the hussar regiment was involved from 1813 to 1815, Heinrich took part as a regimental adjutant. After the end of the wars of liberation he remained a member of the Landwehr for several years ; He did not take his leave as Prime Lieutenant until 1823. But after the peace treaty in 1815 he resumed his legal career and passed his auscultation exam.

When Heinrich's older brother died, who had taken over the management of the parental leases when his father died in 1812, Heinrich had to give up his legal career out of consideration for family circumstances and take over the administration of the lease that had not yet expired. Heinrich was able to end the lease in 1919, but continued to work in agriculture afterwards. He bought the Hausdorf estate in the Lower Silesian district of Neumarkt and later also acquired Polkendorf . As the owner of the manor he was soon given the office of district deputy and was also frequently entrusted with representing the district administration.

Heinrich published on agricultural and economic topics, such as the credit system of the Silesian landscape , a mortgage bond bank that had existed in Silesia since 1770. When the Royal Credit Institute for Silesia was established under the Prussian Minister of State Christian Rother in 1835 , Heinrich returned to the Prussian civil service as its director.

He wrote a number of essays in the Silesian Provincial Gazettes, including essays on the agricultural situation in Silesia, the influence of legislation on agriculture and tax issues.

In 1845 Henry was character as a Privy Councilor awarded.

In the same year, the then Prussian Interior Minister Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg appointed Ernst Heinrich as the founding director of the Agricultural Academy in Proskau, near Opole, in Silesia . According to Heinrich's organizational plan, the academy was able to start teaching and research in 1847 after only two years of preparation. Heinrich was not only its director, but also taught economic subjects such as agricultural business administration himself. For several years Heinrich was chairman of the agricultural association in Opole. From 1849 he published a village newspaper primarily intended for farmers. In 1854 he published a textbook on agricultural management; In 1856 his book appeared: "The economics in their relations to agriculture". In his publications he also dealt with the labor issue and agricultural training.

On the question of agricultural education, Heinrich spoke out against Justus von Liebig for specialized agricultural colleges and against agriculture as a subject at general universities.

Since the reorganization in 1859, Heinrich was a member of the Royal Prussian State Economics College.

The Greifswald Faculty of Philosophy awarded Heinrich an honorary doctorate in 1860.

Heinrich died on August 20, 1862 after a brief, serious illness at the age of 70. His successor in the management of the Agricultural Academy was from 1863 the agricultural scientist Hermann Settegast .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Prussian State Calendar. 1861, p. 273
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1792
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1862
Place of death Proskau , Province of Silesia