Günther Morgenweck

Günther Morgenweck (born July 17, 1909 in Salzungen ; † August 20, 1944 in Ermoclia , Romania ) was a German plant cultivation and grassland scientist .

Live and act

Günther Morgenweck, son of a master carpenter and sawmill owner, attended the secondary school in Bad Salzungen and passed the Abitur there in 1929. After a two-year apprenticeship on a manor near Weimar, he studied agriculture at the University of Jena from 1931 , passed the examination to become a certified farmer in 1934 and received his doctorate there in 1935 with a dissertation on water loss, disease and germination behavior of potatoes. Then he followed his teacher Ernst Klapp to the Hohenheim Agricultural University . Here he worked as a scientific assistant at the Württemberg State Plant Breeding Institute, which is affiliated with the university.

In 1939, Morgenweck took on a teaching position at the University of Bonn . Up until the winter semester of 1941/42 he held lectures there on general and special crop science . As a student of Ernst Klapp in Bonn, he mainly dealt with questions in the field of grassland theory . He published several articles in the journal Pflanzenbau . In July 1942 he completed his habilitation at the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Bonn with the text Structure comparisons of arable and grassland , a remarkable study in which he demonstrated that the physical soil properties deteriorate considerably after the plowing of grassland areas. In the autumn of 1942, Morgenweck was drafted into the Wehrmacht.

Publications (selection)

• Some studies on water loss, disease infestation and germination behavior of the potato in relation to location, plant value and yield . Math.-nat. Diss. Univ. Jena 1935.
• Nitrogen effects on young permanent grassland . In: Pflanzenbau Jg. 17, 1941, pp. 295-312.
• Structural comparisons of arable land and grassland . Habil.-Schr. Agricultural Faculty Univ. Bonn 1942. Zugl. in: Pflanzenbau Jg. 18, 1942, pp. 161–191.

literature

• 150 years of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn 1818-1968. Directory of professors and lecturers. Published by Otto Wenig. Bonn 1968, p. 201.