Franz Waterstradt

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Franz Waterstradt (born July 2, 1872 in Marnitz , Mecklenburg ; † October 24, 1914 died near Ypres in Flanders ) was a German agricultural scientist and university professor.

Life

Franz Waterstradt was born in Marnitz (Mecklenburg) in 1872. His father, August Waterstradt, was a district forester in the Ruhner Mountains and his mother was Elise Regelien, the daughter of the tenant Johannes-Magnus Regelien in neighboring Malow.

Waterstradt attended the secondary schools in Parchim and Bützow. He left the Gymnasium Fridericanum in Parchim in 1890 with a certificate that entitles him to one year of service (such as secondary school leaving certificate ). After 8 years of practical work in agriculture, he decided in 1898 to do the Abitur because he did not have the means to acquire a lease and because his health was not suitable for heavy physical work.

As a student at the agricultural college in Berlin , Franz Waterstradt became more and more interested in the scientific side, to the surprise of his friends and relatives. This is how his teacher (and later father-in-law) Professor Hugo Werner became aware of him. Franz Waterstradt had worked as a research assistant to Friedrich Aereboe in the accounting office of the German Agricultural Society (DLG) before he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the methods of agriculture at the Albertus University in Königsberg in 1904 . As early as 1906, he was appointed associate professor for agricultural economics at the Agricultural Institute of the University of Breslau , as he was recommended by Friedrich Aereboe. From 1912 onwards, Waterstradt managed the farm in Hohenheim and in 1913 became a full professor at the Agricultural University of Hohenheim (near Stuttgart). Farm management was now taught as an independent subject. If one wants to speak of a dispute in the scientific leadership of the time in the economics of agriculture, then Franz Waterstradt can be described as Aereboe's competitor. It is undisputed that Franz Waterstradt deserves the credit for making net income the main part of agricultural management. Aereboe's importance as a company teacher lies in the fact that he has consistently continued the path taken by Waterstradt.

Heinrich Claß's influence on him was tragic . Influenced by national ideas, Waterstradt volunteered at the beginning of the First World War . He was killed near Ypres in Flanders in October 2014 at the age of 42. He left behind his wife Else (daughter of Professor Hugo Werner ) and his 10-year-old son Werner.

Fonts

  • A contribution to the methodology of the economics of agriculture ; Inaugural dissertation by Franz Waterstradt to obtain a doctorate from the philosophical faculty of the Albertus University in Königsberg. F. Stollberg, Merseburg 1904.
  • The profitability of the economic systems after JH von Thunen's "isolated state" and in our time . VB Parey, Berlin 1909
  • The Economics of Agriculture, a textbook for farmers, students, agricultural teachers and administrative officials . E. Ulmer, Stuttgart 1912.

Literature and Sources

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10577 .
  • Katrin Hirte: The German agricultural policy and agricultural economics: the emergence and change of two ambivalent disciplines . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-21683-2 . digital
  • Family chronicle Pentzlin rules. Private, Schwerin 1932.
  • John Cuno and Reiner Stephany (ed.): News of the gender and tradition of Cunoen : 1672-1957 / ... . MV-Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-86991-554-8 . digital

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Individual notes

  1. ^ Family chronicle Pentzlin rules, pp. 125–129
  2. ↑ Grewoll: in Berlin assistant at the Institute for Fermentation; in Hohenheim at the same time head of the estate management associated with the university; Board member of the Association for Exact Economic Research and the Study Commission for the Preservation of Farmers, for Small Settlements and Agricultural Work
  3. ^ Journal of Agricultural History and Agricultural Sociology, page 57. Verlag DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970
  4. ^ Wilhelm Mügge: Conditions of existence of small farms . Page 14, Verlag Nolte, Kiel 1930
  5. ^ Elisabeth Waterstradt married Wilhelm Grueber the Elder in 1919. J., the owner of the technical spring factory in Hagen (Cuno, page 178)
  6. ↑ The engineer Werner Waterstradt married Hanna Cuno. He joined forces with Dr. Heinrich Nettmann joins the Grueber spring factory (Cuno, page 178)
personal data
SURNAME Waterstradt, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Marnitz , Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1914
Place of death near Ypres , Flanders