Fritz Schumann (oenologist)

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Fritz Schumann (born December 3, 1939 in Ungstein ) is a German oenologist .

Life

Schumann grew up in his parents' winery. He attended the viticulture school in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , where he graduated in 1956. After training in the Nahe and Rheingau wine-growing regions , he studied agriculture in Bonn and Berlin . In his diploma thesis he dealt with wild vines in Central Europe, his dissertation dealt with the comparison of old and new grape varieties . He was then a trainee lawyer at the State Teaching and Research Institute for Agriculture, Viticulture and Horticulture in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and from 1971 headed the Viticulture Department for more than 30 years; From 1971 to 1986 he was also head of the vine processing department .

He has been a member of the Palatinate Wine Brotherhood since 1977, and today has the rank of Grand Master. Schumann also acted as president of the Society for the History of Wine . He is the author of numerous publications on the subject of wine, some together with other authors.

In addition to his work in viticulture, Schumann also worked as a freelancer for the Office for Monument Preservation in Speyer . When remnants of the wall were found near Ungstein during a land consolidation process in 1981 , Schumann recognized their importance; it was the remains of the wine press house of Villa rustica Weilberg , which was then uncovered under the direction of the archaeologist Helmut Bernhard . The subsequent partial reconstruction and the operation as an open-air museum happened mainly at Schumann's instigation.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Viticulture Lexicon. Meininger, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1998, ISBN 3-87524-131-2 .
  • 2000 years of wine culture in the Palatinate. Deidesheim, Museum of Wine Culture , 2000, DNB 965213390 .
  • with Werner Back: Hundred years of wine history in the Palatinate. Knecht, Landau 2005, ISBN 3-930927-93-4 .
  • Weilberg Roman villa. A walk through the Roman vineyard in Ungstein near Bad Dürkheim. Bad Dürkheim 2006, DNB 988065282 .
  • with Hans Ambrosi , Bernd HE Hill, Erika Maul, Ernst H. Rühl and Joachim Schmid: color atlas grape varieties: 300 varieties and their wines. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5957-4 .
  • with Klaus Kremb: Staufer historical places and their wines . Edition Palatina, Lingenfeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817350-4-8 .

literature

  • Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities . Arwid Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben 1998, ISBN 3-9804668-2-5 , p. 643 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Michael Hörskens: A life for vines and Romans. In: Die Rheinpfalz , Bad Dürkheimer Zeitung. No. 280, December 3rd, 2019. See also: Grandmaster Fritz Schumann celebrates on December 3rd . his 80th birthday
  2. ^ Society for the History of Wine e. V: Board of Directors ( Memento from February 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oenologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Ungstein