Friedrich Wacker

Friedrich Wacker (born September 11, 1901 in Leonberg , † February 10, 1979 in Rottweil ) was a German grassland sociologist.

Life

Friedrich Wacker studied agriculture at the Hohenheim Agricultural University and the University of Halle . In Hohenheim he became a member of the Corps Germania . In 1928 he received his doctorate in Halle. He then worked as a scientific assistant at the agricultural institutes in Gießen and Jena with Ernst Klapp , where he worked on the relationship between plant population and soil properties in grassland research . After working for several years in official soil appraisal, he completed his habilitation in 1943 at the Hohenheim Agricultural University.

After the Second World War , he initially took on a job as a clerk for soil science in the Geological Office in Tübingen and subsequently became head of the soil science department of the Baden-Württemberg State Geological Office in Freiburg. Since then, his research has focused on the areas of grassland sociology and soil science, as well as their mapping. From 1953 to 1957 he was a lecturer at the University of Tübingen . From 1956 to 1959 he held a lectureship at the Agricultural University of Hohenheim, and later at the forestry department of the natural science faculty of the University of Freiburg .

Fonts

• The influence of acidity and soil saturation on phosphoric acid and potash uptake , 1928
• Comparative examination of agriculturally useful methods of the grassland survey , 1943
• Plant population and moisture conditions in the grassland. On the question of assessing inventories , 1973

literature

• Theophil Gerber: personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine. Biographical Lexicon. NORA Verlagsgemeinschaft Dyck & Westerheide, Berlin, 3rd ext. Ed., 2008, ISBN 978-3-936735-67-3 , Volume 2: M-Z, p. 836

Individual evidence

1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. Darmstadt 1928, p. 207.