Franz Herren

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Cornelius Franz Herren (born May 12, 1900 in Aachen , † September 28, 1983 in Bonn ) was a German agricultural scientist and ministerial official who was involved in the reconstruction after the Second World War .

Life

Herren grew up in Aachen, attended the Hindenburg School there and graduated from high school in 1918. He then began studying agricultural sciences at the University of Bonn and graduated with a diploma in 1923. He received his doctorate in 1925 on an animal breeding topic.

After completing his studies, he trained to become an animal breeding manager, attended the seminar for agricultural teachers in Hildesheim from 1925 to 1926 and worked at the agricultural school in Rheinbach until 1929 . Subsequently, he was head of the animal breeding office in Trier (initially part of the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture , later part of the state farmers' association of the Reichsnährstand Rhineland) and, at the end of 1940, due to his rejection of the Nazi regime and the blood-and-soil ideology of the Reichsnährstand, initially moved to the Government General in Warsaw , then transferred to the rural peasantry of the Sudetenland in Reichenberg . Through advocacy, this was converted into a transfer to the animal breeding office Strasbourg (Landesbauernschaft Baden in Karlsruhe ). After the liberation of Strasbourg in November 1944, Herren became head of the Baden State Stud , based in Karlsruhe. It was not until 1940 that he joined the NSDAP under pressure from the SS in order to avoid further reprisals, which he had previously refused to do. With the decision of the Karlsruhe Chamber of Justice in 1947 he was classified as "exonerated".

At the end of the war, Herren was commissioned by the French and then by the American military government to set up an agricultural administration in North Baden. In 1946 Heinrich Stooß was appointed head of the agricultural production department in the Württemberg-Baden Ministry of Agriculture in Stuttgart, and in 1948 he was also appointed regional director for food and agriculture in the Baden district. From the end of 1949 he was a deputy member of the Federal Council's Agricultural Committee . After the formation of the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952, he was transferred to the regional council of North Baden as department head of Dept. III B (agriculture and domains). In 1954, Herren moved to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture in Bonn as the successor to Maier-Bode (head of the agricultural production department ) , where he stayed until his retirement in 1965.

Herren was married and had three children. Since 1920 he was a member of the academic-scientific association "Renaissance" in Bonn (later KDB Rheno-Guestphalia in Bonn in the RKDB ). In 1957 he became an honorary member of the KDStV Carolingia in the CV of Stuttgart-Hohenheim.

Further professional activity

Herren was a member of many institutions. From 1935 to 1945 he was managing director of the working group of breeders for the yellow and light high cattle from Rhineland, Palatinate, Franconia, Thuringia, southern Hanover, Carinthia and Styria, from 1950 to 1953 chairman of the supervisory board of the Baden Landsiedlungs GmbH. He was a member of various committees of the DLG and the main committee of the DFG . He was also active on the board of trustees of the Max Planck Society , was on the board of the German Society for Zuchtungskunde (DGfZ) and on the supervisory board of the German Institute for Tropical and Sub-Tropical Agriculture . At the international level was represented in the committee of the Committee for Agricultural Research of the FAO of the United Nations. He was a co-founder of aid and was on the board for many years, as well as chairman of the Association of German Graduated Farmers .

Award

In 1965, Herren was awarded the Great Order of Merit with a star .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DNB
  2. ^ Letter from the Reichsnährstandes, Der Reichsbauernführer -Verwaltungsamt- Berlin; Gesch.Z. IVA II H 286 of October 17, 1940
  3. ^ Letter from the Reichsnährstandes, Der Reichsbauernführer -Verwaltungsamt- Berlin; Gesch.Z. JVA II H 286 from January 3, 1941
  4. ^ Spruchkammer III Karlsruhe v. December 20, 1947, AZ 51/55 / ​​67-1098
  5. ↑ Württemberg weekly newspaper for agriculture. No. 13 March 27, 1954
  6. ↑ Württemberg weekly newspaper for agriculture. No. 20 May 15, 1965
  7. ^ Personnel data sheet Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests Bonn
  8. ^ Karl Kossert (ed.): Complete directory of the RKB . Berlin 1967.
  9. ↑ Festschrift: 100 years of KDStV Carolingia in the CV . Stuttgart-Hohenheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-922485-27-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Gentlemen, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herren, Cornelius Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1983
Place of death Bonn