Friedrich Aereboe

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Friedrich Aereboe as a member of Agronomia Jena, 1891

Friedrich Aereboe [spoken with Dehnungs -e : "Ahreboh"] (born July 23, 1865 in Horn near Hamburg, † August 2, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German agricultural economist.

Life

Aereboe was the son of the teacher Hans J. Aereboe at the Rauhen Haus in Horn. Due to his father's change of residence, he attended the city high school in Riga and learned practical agriculture in Livonia, Schleswig-Holstein and in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. From 1889 to 1892 he studied agriculture at the University of Jena , and in 1889 he became a member of the later Corps Agronomia Jena. He also became an honorary member of the Corps Agraria Bonn. During this time he received lasting suggestions for his later business activities from the teaching there Theodor Freiherr von der Goltz . Since he could not take a doctoral examination due to the lack of a high school diploma in Jena, he went to the University of Basel . Here he was awarded a doctorate in 1894 with a dissertation on the influence of light on the respiration of plants. phil. PhD.

From 1895 to 1899 Aereboe was head of the newly established accounting department of the German Agricultural Society in Berlin and then for five years goods director of the Pförten estate in the Lausitz region. In 1904 he became professor of agricultural economics at the University of Wroclaw , in 1906 he accepted a call to the Agricultural Academy Bonn-Poppelsdorf , in 1909 he went to the Agricultural University in Berlin , in 1913 again to Wroclaw, in 1919 to the Agricultural University of Hohenheim and again in Berlin in 1922 . Here he taught until his retirement in 1931. He bequeathed his villa in Berlin-Dahlem , Im Dol 27/29, to the Berlin Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , which in 1934 had taken over the agricultural college.

Research services

During the first three decades of the 20th century, Aereboe had a decisive influence on the development of agricultural management in Germany. In contrast to other doctrines, he viewed the farm as an organic, inseparable whole. That is why he tried to integrate more economic principles into agricultural policy. With his numerous publications, above all with his textbook “Allgemeine Landwirtschaftliche Betriebslehre ” (General Agricultural Farming ), which has been published several times , he has set new standards for the theory and for the content of his specialist field. The five-volume “Handbuch der Landwirtschaft” (1929/30), which he edited together with Johannes Hansen and Theodor Roemer , is considered a work of the century in agricultural sciences .

In addition to his work as a university lecturer, Aereboe has advised numerous large agricultural companies, prepared reports and held many lectures. He dedicated part of his life's work to rural education. He always maintained close contact with agricultural practice. In his writings, the close connection with arable and crop production is particularly evident. When the agricultural chemist Margarete von Wrangell published test results in 1920 , according to which some cultivated plant species can digest poorly soluble soil phosphates , Aereboe developed the "Aereboe-Wrangell fertilization system". It should make German agriculture largely independent of imported rock phosphates. Although this hope was not fulfilled, Aereboe has revived the discussion about the problem of phosphate fertilization in Germany. As this example of working in another subject shows, his thinking and acting were almost always interdisciplinary. In this sense, Aereboe is one of the great universal scholars of agricultural economics. He was an honorary doctor of the Universities of Tübingen , Berlin and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna.

Major works

  • The management of estates and land. A textbook for farmers, economists, administrators and students. (General agricultural management. Part 1) . Publishing house Paul Parey Berlin 1917, 2nd edition 1917, 3rd edition 1918, 4th edition 1919, 5th edition 1920, 6th edition 1923.
  • The development of the globe through the progressive perfection of the aid of agriculture (= business management lectures from the field of agriculture H. 4) Verlagbuchhandlung Paul Parey Berlin 1920.
  • New fertilizer management without foreign phosphates (= business management lectures from the field of agriculture, page 6) Paul Parey publishing house Berlin 1922.
  • The influence of the war on agricultural production in Germany (= economic and social history of the world war. German series), Stuttgart et al. 1927.
  • Agricultural policy . Paul Parey publishing house in Berlin 1928.
  • Economy and culture in the United States of North America . Paul Parey publishing house, Berlin 1930.
  • Small agricultural management. A textbook for agricultural schools and an introduction to farm management for the practical farmer . Publishing house Paul Parey Berlin 1932, 2nd edition, revised by Walther Pross, ibid. 1953.
  • Handbook of Agriculture . Edited in five volumes by Friedrich Aereboe, Johannes Hansen and Theodor Roemer. Publishing bookstore Paul Parey Berlin 1929/1930.
  • Youthfulness, joys of work and labor disputes. Memories from my life . Duplication Manuscript o. O. u. J.

Honors

  • In Griesheim , a technical school is named for agriculture after him

literature

  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, p. 10, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
  • Wilhelm Seedorf: Friedrich Aereboe in memory . In: Yearbook of the Society for the History and Literature of Agriculture Vol. 41, 1942, pp. 81–85.
  • Werner Leppin: Friedrich Aereboe †. In: Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Presse vol. 69, 1942, p. 320 (with picture).
  • Ludwig Wilhelm Ries: On the 100th birthday of Friedrich Aereboe . In: Journal of Agricultural History and Agricultural Sociology, Vol. 13, 1965, pp. 44–61.
  • Friedrich Aereboe . Appreciation and selection from his works on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birthday. Edited by Arthur Hanau, Max Rolfes, Hans Wilbrandt and Emil Woermann. Publishing house Paul Parey Hamburg and Berlin 1965 (with picture and bibliography).
  • Max Rolfes: Friedrich Aereboe (1865-1942) . In: Great Farmers. Edited by Günther Franz and Heinz Haushofer. DLG-Verlag Frankfurt (Main) 1970, pp. 321-332 (with picture).
  • Otto E. Heuser:  Aereboe, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 91 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Aereboe  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hohenheim's directors, rectors and presidents ( memento from March 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 17
  3. ↑ Max Mechow: Renowned CCER. Historia Academica, Volume 8/9, pp. 7-8
personal data
SURNAME Aereboe, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural economist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Horn (Hamburg)
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1942
Place of death Berlin