Franz Schmitten

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Franz Schmitten (2004)

Franz Schmitten (born May 5, 1929 in Insul near Adenau , Ahrweiler district, Rhine Province ; † August 14, 2011 in Bonn ) was a German animal breeding scientist and university professor. He worked at the agricultural faculty of the University of Bonn .

Life

Schmitten passed the Abitur examination at the Realgymnasium Ahrweiler in 1948 , received practical agricultural training in his parents' business and at Gut Vellerhof in the Eifel , studied from 1951 to 1954 agricultural sciences at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn and graduated with an exam as a graduate farmer . This was followed by employment as a doctoral student at the local institute for animal breeding with a doctorate to become Dr. agr. in 1958 with Heinrich Havermann , working as an assistant, from 1962 as senior assistant and in 1967 with the habilitation in animal breeding and pet genetics as a private lecturer. In 1970 Schmitten was appointed as an adjunct professor for animal breeding and animal husbandry, took over provisionally in 1971 and in 1973 after being appointed full professor as managing director of the then Institute for animal breeding and animal husbandry as well as the Frankenforst experimental farm with a fattening laboratory.

In his scientific work, Schmitten initially dealt with issues related to animal feeding such as: B. the importance of minerals in cattle and pigs, the possibilities of using the company's own grain in the pigsty and the production of veal. In the fields of animal breeding and husbandry, he valued phenotypic and genetic parameters for characteristics of fattening performance and carcass value in pigs and their relationships with one another.

When investigating the quality of animal products and how they are influenced by breeding and production technology, he and his employees set the following priorities:

  • Methodology of the performance tests, including the elaboration of guidelines for the product test in Haus Düsse for the neutral testing of different pig origins,
  • Estimation of parameters for performance characteristics, construction of selection indices for the evaluation of breeding boars, planning of breeding programs,
  • Assessment of meat fullness, texture and susceptibility to stress by introducing new characteristics such as B. the Bonn formula for estimating the lean meat content of test pigs without cutting and the use of new parameters to assess the meat quality and thus the beginning of the rehabilitation against stress susceptibility of some pig breeds,
  • Suggestions for targeted three-breed crossbreeding in cattle and pigs,
  • Assessment of production-related influences and influencing variables on meat performance characteristics in calves, cattle and pigs.

Schmitten took an active part in the further training of agricultural teachers and advisors as well as in the conferences for animal breeding officials from North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. He particularly supported the breeding organizations in North Rhine-Westphalia in planning and implementing breeding programs for cattle, pigs and horses and gave numerous lectures. He published the scientific results with over 250 publications and supervised more than 30 doctoral students. In his area of ​​responsibility, he handed over animal feeding to the Institute for Animal Nutrition and expanded the areas of pet genetics, animal husbandry technology and small animal breeding.

He retired in 1994, but continued to work as an advisor to chambers of agriculture and other organizations. In recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements in the field of animal breeding and husbandry, the intensive transfer of scientific knowledge into practice and successful work as long-time editor of the Züchtungskunde magazine, he was made an honorary member of the DGfZ on September 27, 2004 in Güstrow .

Volunteering

  • Member of numerous bodies and committees at the University of Bonn, its agricultural faculty and scientific and agricultural organizations
  • 1973–1994 chairman of the board of directors of the experimental farms at the University of Bonn
  • 1976/77 Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Bonn and co-founder of the Theodor Brinkmann Foundation to promote the research focus on environmentally friendly animal and plant production
  • scientific supervision of the performance testing institutes
  • Member of the examination board for the large state examination in agriculture in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Appointed member of the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture
  • 1981–1987 member of the advisory board for animal processing industry
  • Expert at the German Research Foundation
  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Institute for Meat Research in Kulmbach
  • Member of the commissions for pig and cattle production of the European Association for Animal Production (EVT)
  • Long-standing member of the main committee of the German Society for Breeding Science (DGfZ)
  • Member of the committee for meat production of the DGfZ
  • 1972–2003 editor-in-chief of the specialist journal Züchtungskunde of the DGfZ

Publications

  • Investigations into the hay ventilation to determine the total losses and the feed value of ventilated hay; Comparative studies on the digestibility of aerated and soil-dried hay. With Alois Hövelkamp. Münster-Hiltrup: Landwirtschaftsverlag, 1958, 103 p .;
  • About the importance of minerals and how they meet the needs of cattle and pigs in farms with different feed bases in the Bonn district. Bonn, Landw. Fak., Diss. 1958, 175 pp.
  • Investigations for the estimation of phenotypic and genetic characteristics of the fattening performance and the carcass value in pigs: with special consideration of the meat quality and its relation to the carcass composition, Hab. Font Univ. Bonn, Landw. Fak. 1967, 274 pp.
  • Handbook Pig Production: Breeding - Nutrition - Production Technology; Housing systems - diseases - hygiene; Marketing - profitability. Co-author; 3., completely revised. and exp. Edition, 1989, 400 p .; 4th edition, 1999;
  • 75 years of breeding science: 1926 - 2003, Stuttgart: Ulmer, 2003, pp. 285–416;

Awards

literature

  • Peter Glodek: Professor Dr. Franz Schmitten 65 years. In: Zkde., 66, (3), 167-168, 1994.
  • Konrad Finke and Philipp Fürst zu Solms-Lich: Hermann von Nathusius Medal for Professor Dr. Franz Schmitten. In: Zkde 68, (6), 413-415, 1996
  • Karl Schellander and Ernst-Jürgen Lode: Honorary membership of the German Society for Zuchtungskunde e. V. for Prof. Dr. Franz Schmitten. In: Zkde 76, (6), 393-394, 2004
  • NN in: forsch / Bonner Universitätsnachrichten, No. 4/2011 of October 4, 2011, p. 45
  • Archive of the University of Bonn: Announcements from June 10, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Award of honorary membership in the DGfZ
  2. ^ Previous holders of the Hermann von Nathusius Medal of the DGfZ
  3. ^ Announcement of death from Franz Schmitten
personal data
SURNAME Schmitten, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animal breeding scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Insul near Adenau , Ahrweiler district, Rhine province
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 2011
Place of death Bonn