Franz Honcamp

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Franz Honcamp as a young corps student 1892/1893

Franz Honcamp (born February 25, 1875 in Erfurt , † March 4, 1934 in Rostock ) was a German agricultural chemist .

Life path

His parents were the businessman Franz Honcamp (1843–82) and his wife Karoline Bendleb (1851–1922), daughter of a farmer.

Honcamp studied chemistry and other natural science subjects in Berlin, Stuttgart, Göttingen and Erlangen. During his studies he joined the Corps Saxonia-Berlin in the winter semester 1892/93 and the Corps Stauffia Stuttgart in the winter semester 1893/94 . After receiving his doctorate at the University of Erlangen in 1901, he worked as an assistant at the agricultural research stations in Marburg and Leipzig-Möckern until 1907 . In the meantime, he studied agriculture for two semesters at the Technical University of Munich, where he passed the examination to become a qualified farmer in 1904. In 1907 he became director of the Agricultural Research Station in Oldenburg. From 1908 until his death he was in charge of the Agricultural Research Station in Rostock. At the same time he taught, initially as an associate, from 1925 as full professor , the subject of agricultural chemistry at the University of Rostock . For the year 1928/29 he was elected Rector . From September 1933 he was chairman of the Association of German Agricultural Investigation and Research Institutes .

In 1920, Franz Honcamp refused an appointment to the board of directors of the Bavarian nitrogen works , in 1922 an appointment as head of the biotechnological department of the Zootechnische Landesanstalt in Brno and in 1924 an appointment as professor for feeding and animal nutrition studies at the Hohenheim Agricultural University .

At the First World War Honcamp took over as captain of the Landwehr part and company commander. He was wounded in the First Battle of Flanders .

family

In 1908 he married Susanne Kern (1885–1945), the daughter of the doctor Dr. Kern from Leipzig. The couple had a daughter.

Franz Honcamp was a cousin of the director of the German Cast Iron Pipe Association Georg Blanchart .

Research activity

Right from the start, Honcamp concentrated on expanding the Rostock experimental station. A large vegetation house and modern laboratory facilities were built under his aegis. Honcamp has described this development in detail in the publication Die Landwirtschaftliche Versuchsstation Rostock 1875-1925 . The focus of his research was in the fields of animal nutrition , animal feed and fertilization . He has vividly summarized the state of knowledge in these research fields in several books.

Honcamp made a name for himself in the professional world as the editor of the two-volume manual of plant nutrition and fertilizer theory published in 1931 . For almost thirty years it was the authoritative standard work in plant-based agricultural chemistry. As a co-author, Honcamp wrote two articles for this manual: a biographically oriented account of the history of plant nutrition and an extensive treatise on fertilization and fertilizers. Honcamp has also emphasized the importance of the history of science for his own subject area in other publications, above all in his 1928 Rostock university speech by Justus von Liebig and his influence on the development of agriculture . Honcamp's published lecture from 1933 Tasks and Significance of Agricultural Chemistry for Agriculture and Agricultural Science contains fundamental considerations for determining the position of the subject area of ​​agricultural chemistry in the system of agricultural sciences.

Awards and honorary positions

Military

Honcamp received the following awards during World War I:

Scientific

  • Franz Honcamp was a member of the examination committee for the second state examination for cultural and surveying engineers in Mecklenburg as well
  • State Commissioner for the Thünen Institute in Rostock.
  • From 1927 he was a member of the scientific committee of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors.
  • In 1930 he was elected a corresponding member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Agriculture.
  • From September 1933 he was chairman of the Association of German Agricultural Investigation and Research Institutes.
  • He did not live to see an election as a corresponding member of the Swedish Academy of Agriculture, which was to take place in March 1934.

Fonts

  • Nitrogen fertilizers, their economic importance, production and composition, as well as their application in agriculture . Publisher Paul Parey Berlin 1920.
  • Investigations into the influence of coconut cake and broken coconut as well as increasing doses of the same on the amount and composition of milk . Verlag Paul Parey Berlin 1920 = work of the German Agricultural Society H. 303.
  • Agricultural feeding science and animal feed science. Commonly presented . Publishing house Eugen Ulmer Stuttgart 1921.
  • Fertilizer ABC. A guide to the use of artificial fertilizers in question and answer . Publisher Paul Parey Berlin 1922; Reprints including 1924 a. 1928.
  • The Agricultural Research Station Rostock 1875-1925. Report on the establishment, development and activities of the Rostock agricultural research station in the fifty years of its existence . Refunded in cooperation with H. Göttsch ... by F. Honcamp. Verlag Hinstorff Rostock 1925.
  • Potato and lupine in their value and their importance as indigenous concentrated feed . Berlin 1926 = memoranda of the potato growing society. H. 28.
  • Justus von Liebig and his influence on the development of agriculture . Verlag C. Hinstorff Rostock 1928 = Rostock University Speeches H. 6.
  • Handbook of plant nutrition and fertilizer doctrine . Edited by F. Honcamp. 2 vol., Verlag Julius Springer Berlin 1931. In it by F. Honcamp: Historical facts about the development of plant nutrition (vol. 1, pp. 1–28) and fertilization and fertilizers (vol. 2, pp. 1–61).
  • Tasks and significance of agricultural chemistry for agriculture and agricultural science . Lecture given at the general meeting of the Association of Agricultural Testing and Research Institutes on September 5, 1933 in Jena. Sep. print Berlin 1933. - Zugl. in: The agricultural test stations, Vol. 118, 1934, pp. 139–158.

literature

  • F. Giesecke: Franz Honcamp † . In: Yearbook of the Society for the History and Literature of Agriculture Vol. 33, 1934, pp. 10-12.
  • Werner Wöhlbier: Franz Honcamp. A look back at his life and work . In: The agricultural test stations, Vol. 120, 1934, pp. 1–12 (with picture).
  • Werner Wöhlbier:  Honcamp, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 595 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Georg Blanchart : AH Honcamp † , obituary in Sachsenblatt, volume 18, June 1, 1934, number 3, pp. 40–42.
  • Honcamp, Franz. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , pp. 796–797.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Weigandt: Corps Saxonia-Berlin zu Aachen 1867-1967 , Aachen 1968
  2. ^ University of Rostock History of Plant Nutrition ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Honcamp, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1934
Place of death Rostock