Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan

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Portrait medallion of Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan and his wife

Friedrich Armand Emil Bassermann , 1883 Bassermann-Jordan , from 1917 Bassermann-Jordan (* 23. March 1872 in Deidesheim , † 11. July 1959 ) was a Palatine vineyard owner and wine-growing - historian . He was the author of numerous wine historical writings, including the "history of wine," a standard work on the subject of wine history .

family

He came from the wealthy Bassermann family in Baden-Palatinate , who appeared for the first time with the friar Johannes Bassermann de Radegishusen ( Riddagshausen monastery near Braunschweig ) and whose direct line-up began with Dietrich Bassermann (1615–1682) in Hanau , and was the son of the winery owner and district administrator Emil Bassermann (1835–1915, Bassermann-Jordan from 1883) and Auguste Jordan (1841–1899); his brothers were Ludwig Bassermann-Jordan and Ernst von Bassermann-Jordan .

He married on May 15, 1922 in Speyer ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) Elisabeth Wand (born September 3, 1899 in Speyer; † October 14, 1975 in Bad Dürkheim ), the daughter of the mayor of Neustadt an der Haardt , Theodor Wand, and the Elisabeth Hauser. The two had two children, Ludwig and Gabriele.

His maternal grandfather was Ludwig Andreas Jordan . When he died in 1883, he had no male heir to carry his name on. At his request, the Bavarian permission to unify his names as "Bassermann-Jordan" was given on September 17, 1883 at Linderhof Palace .

Life

Friedrich Bassermann was born on March 23, 1872. He attended the humanistic grammar school in Karlsruhe until 1889. After taking some study trips, he studied in Heidelberg , Munich , Berlin and Strasbourg . In 1894 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg and passed the state examination in law in Colmar . Together with his brother Ludwig , he took over their parents' winery in 1899 . After he fell right at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, he was solely responsible for managing the winery, as his other brother Ernst had been living in Munich since 1895.

After he had already started to collect literature and knowledge about the history of viticulture in 1896 , Bassermann-Jordan published his work "History of Viticulture" in 1907 at the age of 35. In addition to German, Bassermann-Jordan spoke French and Italian and was also proficient in Latin and ancient Greek. For the creation of his work he read ancient writings and medieval dissertations from various European countries. He traveled extensively for research purposes, acquired historical documents and thus created an extensive library that he could use in the preparation of the book. In 1922 he completed work on the second edition of the work, which was published in 1923. Since Bassermann-Jordan left aside “very specialized areas”, such as viticulture in North America, South Africa, China and Japan, the work essentially deals with the history of viticulture in the West . Bassermann-Jordan's work is considered to be the foundation of European viticulture research, the most informative and preferred reference work in terms of viticulture history. Another important work that complements Bassermann-Jordan's work and in some ways continues it is the work of Georg Schreiber , “German Wine History. The Wine in Popular Life, Cult and Economy ”, published posthumously in 1980. In terms of content, there is little overlap between the two works.

In addition to the "History of Viticulture", von Bassermann-Jordan published numerous other books, mainly those on the subject of wine and viticulture. In 1926 he and his brother Ernst published the “Memories” of his grandfather Friedrich Daniel Bassermann , who was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

In 1909 Bassermann-Jordan was a co-founder of the Viticulture Museum in Speyer , the first of its kind in Germany. After the death of Eugen Buhl , who was a cousin of Bassermann-Jordan's mother, Bassermann-Jordan took over his position as supervisory commissioner for the Palatinate wine-growing region in 1910. Also in 1910 he was - together with his brother Ludwig - a major co-founder of the Association of German Natural Wine Auctioneers (today the Association of German Predicate and Quality Wineries (VDP)). In 1917, Bassermann-Jordan became President of the Bavarian Viticulture Association. He was also first chairman of the Palatinate Winegrowing Association. He was also a member of the International Wine Office in Paris, the Commission Internationale Permanente de Viticulture in Paris and the Wine Advisory Board at the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture .

Bassermann-Jordan's father Emil had already strived to be raised to the Bavarian nobility . As one of the last families, Friedrich and Ernst Bassermann-Jordan finally succeeded in this in 1917, who after the death of their brother Ludwig, who had been killed in the first days of the First World War, transferred large sums of money to the Kingdom of Bavaria and donated them to aid organizations. She was raised to the Bavarian nobility on November 7, 1917 in Munich with a diploma on November 12 and enrollment in the nobility register of the Kingdom of Bavaria on November 28, 1917.

When Bavaria's Minister of Education, Franz Matt, founded the “Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science” in 1925, which was dedicated to scientific research and regional studies in the Palatinate, Bassermann-Jordan became its first president. He kept this office until the National Socialists came to power in 1933, who filled his position and that of his Secretary General Albert Pfeiffer with other people. After the end of the war, von Bassermann-Jordan was reappointed President in 1950; The archaeologist Friedrich Sprater took the place of the late Albert Pfeiffer as Secretary General .

After von Bassermann-Jordan died in 1959, his son Ludwig and his wife Margit took over the management of his winery.

Honors

In 1926, von Bassermann-Jordan was appointed privy councilor. He was honorary president of the Palatinate Viticulture Association, since 1949 honorary member of the Palatinate Chamber of Agriculture and in 1950 he became an honorary member of the German Viticulture Association . He was also Honorary Chairman and Honorary Advisory Board of the Association of German Natural Wine Auctioneers . In 1957, the German Agricultural Society was the first to award him the "Friedrich-von-Bassermann-Jordan-Medal" named after him, which according to the statutes may be awarded to a maximum of ten particularly deserving personalities. In 1952, Bassermann-Jordan awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was also Commander of the New Year's Eve Order and the Greek Order of Redeemer , owned the Red Crescent Medal of Merit in silver, the Bavarian Order of Michael III. Class , the King Ludwig Cross and the Prince Regent Luitpold Medal in silver.

The University of Munich made him an honorary citizen and honorary senator. The Mannheim Business School appointed von Bassermann-Jordan in 1957 on the occasion of its 50th anniversary as a doctor honoris causa . In 2012, von Bassmann-Jordan, together with Dom Pérignon and Gerhard Schwetje , was honored with a plaque on the "Wine Walk of Fame" at the German Wine Gate in Schweigen-Rechtenbach . He was named “Knight of the Wine Route” by the Palatinate Wine Brotherhood and the city of Deidesheim made him an honorary citizen.

Works

  • History of viticulture . 2nd edition Frankfurt am Main 1923; Reprint: Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1975; Reprint: Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, Landau 1991, ISBN 387629181X .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Noble Houses B Volume XV . In: Genealogical manual of the nobility . 1984, ISSN  0435-2408 , p. 1 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Hermann Graf: A life for viticulture, science and home . In: Museum for Wine Culture e. V. (Ed.): Urban Day 1987. What does “the Bassermann” tell us today? No. 1 . Deidesheim 1988, p. 19-21 .
  3. ↑ a b Joachim Kermann: Economic and Social Development 1816 to 1914 . In: Kurt Andermann , Berthold Schnabel (Ed.): Deidesheim - Contributions to the history and culture of a city in the wine country . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-0418-4 , p. 239-241 .
  4. ↑ a b Helmut Arntz : What does “the Bassermann” tell us today . In: Museum for Wine Culture e. V. (Ed.): Urban Day 1987. What does “the Bassermann” tell us today? Deidesheim 1988, p. 7-14 .
  5. ↑ K. Adams: The meaning of the work "History of Viticulture" by Bassermann-Jordan for winemakers and viticulture scientists . In: Museum for Wine Culture e. V. (Ed.): Urban Day 1987. What does “the Bassermann” tell us today? No. 1 . Deidesheim 1988, p. 15-16 .
  6. ↑ Otto Roller: Dr. Friedrich v. Bassermann-Jordan and his work "History of Viticulture" . In: Museum for Wine Culture e. V. (Ed.): Urban Day 1987. What does “the Bassermann” tell us today? No. 1 . Deidesheim 1988, p. 17-18 .
  7. ↑ a b c Otto Jung: Short biography for the Palatinate . In: The Great Palatinate Book . Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1959, p. 487 .
  8. ^ A b Fritz Schumann , Wolfgang Thomann: Bassermann-Jordan, Friedrich von (1872-1959). Society for the History of Wine V., accessed on January 9, 2017 .
  9. ↑ The history of the federal association. VDP. The Prädikatsweingüter, accessed on February 2, 2017 .
  10. ^ Henning Türk: Bassermann-Jordan winery. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz e. V., accessed February 2, 2017 .
  11. ^ Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ milestones. (No longer available online.) Winery Privy Council Dr. by Bassermann-Jordan, archived from the original on November 21, 2016 ; Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Civil status completed on October 15, 1942 (PDF; 6.5 MB) University of Munich, 1942, accessed on February 2, 2017 .
  14. ↑ The Honorary Bearers ( Memento from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ^ Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities . Arwid Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben 1998, ISBN 3-9804668-2-5 , p. 30 .
personal data
SURNAME Bassermann-Jordan, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bassermann, Friedrich von; Bassermann-Jordan, Friedrich; Bassermann, Friedrich; Bassermann, Friedrich Armand Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German winery owner and honorary citizen of the city of Deidesheim
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Deidesheim , Bad Dürkheim district
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1959
Place of death Deidesheim , Bad Dürkheim district