Franz Marshal
Franz Marschall (born March 20, 1916 in Neuenegg , † September 13, 1983 in Lengnau near Biel ) was a Swiss agricultural scientist . His main areas of work were grassland sociology and seeds . Marschall decisively determined the legal basis for seed testing in Switzerland.
Live and act
Franz Marschall, son of a farmer, studied agriculture at the ETH Zurich from 1936 after several years of agricultural practice and passed the diploma examination as an engineer-agronomist there in 1940 . From 1941 to 1943 he worked as Albert Volkart's assistant at the Institute for Crop Production at ETH Zurich. At this university he received his doctorate in 1947 with a dissertation on golden oat meadows in Switzerland.
From 1943 to 1981, Marschall held leading positions in the field of seeds , initially until 1965 as Head of Seed Approval for Grains and Clover at the Federal Agricultural Research Institute in Oerlikon , from 1966 as Head of the Department of Crop Production and Seed Control at the Federal Research Institute for Agricultural Crop Production in Zurich-Reckenholz . During these decades he decisively determined the legal basis for seed approval and for variety tests in Switzerland. He was a longstanding board member of the International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) and its secretary from 1977 to 1980.
In addition to his main activity as a seed expert, Marschall continued to deal with fundamental problems in natural forage production in Switzerland and published several articles on this. Of these publications, his ecological and plant-sociological studies on grass grass and crested grass willows are to be emphasized .
Main publications
- The golden oat meadow (Trisetum flavescentis) in Switzerland. A sociological-ecological study . Diss. ETH Zurich 1947. Verlag Huber & Co., Bern 1947 ( contributions to the geobotanical survey of Switzerland. Issue 26).
- The natural meadows of northwest Germany . In: Swiss Agricultural Monthly Bullets. Vol. 28, 1950, pp. 342-348.
- Plant sociology and soil science studies of Swiss natural meadows I. (together with E. Frei). In: Agricultural Yearbook of Switzerland. Vol. 67, 1953, pp. 659-686.
- Botany . Published by Franz Marschall on behalf of the Swiss Association of Engineer-Agronomists, 10th edition. Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 1958; 11th edition. Ibid. 1964.
- Monitoring the seed trade in Switzerland . In: Agricultural Research. Special issue 24, 1970, pp. 129-134.
- Development trends in Swiss seed recognition . In: Swiss Agricultural Monthly Bullets. Vol. 52, 1974, pp. 289-297.
- Contributions to the knowledge of the borst grass lawns in Switzerland (together with W. Dietl). In: Swiss Agricultural Research. Vol. 13, 1974, pp. 115-127.
- Contributions to the knowledge of the crested grass pastures in Switzerland (together with W. Dietl). In: Swiss Agricultural Research. Vol. 15, 1976, pp. 287-297.
literature
- Franz Marshal . In: Swiss Lexicon in six volumes. Verlag Schweizer Lexikon, Lucerne, Vol. 4, 1992, p. 459.
Web links
- Peter Müller-Grieshaber: Marschall, Franz. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .
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SURNAME | Marshal, Franz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss agricultural scientist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1916 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuenegg |
DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1983 |
Place of death | Lengnau BE |