Georg Blohm (agricultural scientist)

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Memorial stone for Georg Blohm in Spiegelsdorf

Georg Friedrich Blohm (born October 25, 1896 in Thürkow ; † May 9, 1982 in Kiel ) was a German agricultural scientist .

Life

Georg Blohm, son of the Mecklenburg landowner Wilhelm Blohm (1866–1915) on Thürkow , attended schools in Teterow and Lübeck , where he received his school- leaving certificate in 1914 . As a volunteer on the Western Front (World War I) , he was seriously wounded in April 1917 (loss of an arm and shortening of a leg). He spent his captivity in England in a military hospital until he was released in January 1918.

From October 1919 Blohm studied agriculture , first at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and later at the Friedrichs University in Halle , where he graduated with a diploma on November 21, 1921 . Two years later he wrote a work with statistical considerations on the fertilization on several Mecklenburg economies, by which he became doctor doctorate was. In 1923 he became an assistant in the library of the agricultural institute, which he remained for three years. Then, in 1926, his habilitation took place at the university through his writing Influence of soil cultivation on the water flow of the soil . From the following year he initially worked as a senior assistant at the Institute for Arable and Plant Production at the University of Halle. During this time Blohm made study trips to England , America and Canada and had a semester teaching assignment at the University of Hamburg .

He gave up the position of senior assistant in 1930, but was still a member of the teaching staff, and was employed as head of the business administration department at the Chamber of Agriculture. Next he went to Stettin as head of the Pomeranian rural community , from December 1, 1931, he acted as an authorized signatory at Landberatung Pommern GmbH and was promoted to managing director on December 15, 1933. During this activity in Pomerania he dealt with the establishment and development of the agricultural advisory system.

In 1934 the Agricultural University of Berlin Blohm qualified for business administration. Two years later, he received a chair in agricultural management and agricultural policy at the Technical University of Gdańsk . From 1934 on he was a supporting member of the SS . He resigned this membership after 18 months in 1936. In 1941, he became a full professor at the University of Poznan for agricultural work and management . In January 1945 Blohm had to give up his activity and leave Posen due to the war. He then retired to his farm in Spiegelsdorf .

On June 15, 1945 he took over a professorship at the University of Greifswald . In the second half of 1946 he was retired because of his short-term sustaining membership of the SS. An initially suspected membership in the NSDAP has not been confirmed. A few months later, in autumn 1946, Blohm was re-admitted to Greifswald University. Blohm was commissioned to establish an agricultural faculty . He also advised Neubauer.

In 1945 he became a member of the CDU .

In 1949 Blohm was appointed to the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , where he succeeded Emil Woermann . In the same year he was elected a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . Just two years later, he moved to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, where, in addition to the professorship, he was also appointed director of the university institute for agricultural management. 1955/56 he was rector of the university. In 1965 he retired .

Blohm acted as a member of the research advisory board for the reunification of Germany. In this office he advised the government on how collectivization in the GDR could be reversed.

Honors

literature

  • Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 406.
  • Theophil Gerber: personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine. Biographical Lexicon. 4th, exp. Edition NORA, Berlin 2014, pp. 78–79

Works (selection)

  • Blohm, Georg: General agricultural management; Verlag Eugen Ulmer Stuttgart; 1959.
  • Blohm, Georg: Applied agricultural management; 4th edition: Verlag Eugen Ulmer Stuttgart; 1964.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personalbogen-Uni-Halle_1950-04-15-Seite1-4; Landesarchiv-SH-Abt. 47_Nr. 6471 military
  2. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 44.
  3. ↑ Seils, Markus: "Task: The planned ideological transformation of the universities". State university policy in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1945 to 1950; Schwerin 1996
  4. ^ Members of the previous academies. Georg Friedrich Blohm. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 23, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Rector's speech (HKM)
  6. ↑ Landesarchiv-SH-Abt. 47_Nr. 6471 military
  7. ↑ Landesarchiv-SH-Abt. 47_Nr. 6471 military
  8. ↑ Table of Prize Winners Henneberg Lehmann Prize, 2014_04_01
  9. ↑ LASH Dept. 47.12 no. 145 Wilhelm Niklas
personal data
SURNAME Blohm, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blohm, Georg Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Thürkow
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1982
Place of death Kiel