Friedrich Christiansen-Less

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Friedrich Johann Georg Christiansen-Less , Fritz Christiansen-Less for short , (born April 17, 1897 in Hamburg , † March 22, 1989 in Eckernförde ) was a German agricultural expert and university lecturer.

Christiansen-Less studied agriculture from 1919 to 1922 in Göttingen and Breslau until he received his doctorate and then worked under Friedrich Berkner as an assistant at the University of Breslau . In 1924 he completed his habilitation and in 1928 was appointed associate professor for plant breeding. In 1931 he went to Turkey as a government employee and taught at the German-run agricultural and veterinary university in Ankara . In General , he led from 1940 to 1945, the Agricultural Research Institute in Pulawy , which the Institute for German Ostarbeit belonged. Helmuth Graf von Moltke visited him from Kreisau on May 1, 1943 and included him in the plans for a German rebuilding for agriculture.

After 1945, Christiansen-Less, as overall director of the Hermann-Lietz schools and director of the Foundation of German Landerziehungsheime , who lived in Borby , initiated the foundation of the Louisenlund Foundation in Schleswig-Holstein, which was carried out in 1949 by Friedrich zu Schleswig-Holstein . From 1954 to 1962 Christiansen-Less was an agricultural officer in the German embassies in Turkey and other Middle East countries. He wrote down the sum of his agricultural experience there in a new edition of the book from 1934 in 1970.

Fonts

  • The basics of Turkish agriculture , 1934 (Turkish translation: Ankara 1938)
  • Dendroclimatological studies on the development of annual rings in pines in Anatolia , 1942
  • Arable farming in the Mediterranean and Middle East, shown using the example of Turkey , 1970
  • Fifty years of German development aid for Turkish agriculture , 1979
  • Born in 1897. Citizen of four German states , 1981 (private print for family and friends, not available in bookshops)

literature

  • Wolfgang Böhm: Biographical handbook for the history of crop production , Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11324-2 . ( Online )

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personal data
SURNAME Christiansen-Less, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christiansen-Less, Friedrich Johann Georg (full name); Christiansen-Less, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural expert and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1989
Place of death Eckernförde