Georg Rudorf

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Dr. Georg Rudorf, 1937
Building of the former Quakenbrück agricultural school with a war memorial, 2020
Villa district in the health resort of Hartha around 1930, on the right the Villa Wilhelm's rest in which the Rudorf family lived

Karl Georg Rudorf (born January 27, 1868 in Bautzen , † February 2, 1948 in Kurort Hartha ) was director of the agricultural school in Quakenbrück , known as "Ackerdoktor", and reformed agriculture in Artland in Lower Saxony .

Life

Rudorf spent his youth in Dresden . After graduating, he obtained a doctorate in agriculture.

He married Emmy Emilie Rudorf, born on October 7, 1899 in Probsteierhagen . Arp (born September 8, 1875 in Laboe near Kiel ). Their house was next to the 1876 established agricultural school, in Wohld 48, in Quakenbrücker district hook Kamp. His son Hanns Joachim Rudorf was born on April 24, 1902, and his daughters Charlotte and Margarete Herta Rudorf were born on June 11, 1903. Charlotte Rudorf died in Quakenbrück on June 11, 1910. At the father's request, the son also started an agricultural career and later taught at the agricultural school in Lübbecke ( Westphalia ). As a pensioner, Rudorf moved with his wife, daughter and granddaughter in October 1937 to the health resort Hartha in Saxony . At the beginning of the Second World War he returned briefly to temporary lessons in Neustadt am Rübenberge in Lower Saxony . The son died in 1944 in Tushino near Moscow during World War II .

Georg Rudorf died in Hartha health resort in 1948. The burial took place at his own request at the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden- Tolkewitz . His wife died two weeks later and was buried there as well. His daughter last lived in Spechtshausen and his granddaughter in Wilsdruff .

"Farm Doctor"

In 1898 Rudorf accepted the call to teach at the agricultural school founded in 1874 in Quakenbrück in the Lower Saxony Artland. From 1899 he was chairman of the Quakenbrück Agricultural Association. On April 1, 1900, he was appointed director of the Quakenbrück agricultural school.

He also worked on a voluntary basis as chairman of the association of former agricultural students and the agricultural district association of Bersenbrück as well as head of the agricultural test rings he founded in Menslage , Badbergen and Bramsche .

To mark the 50th anniversary of the agricultural school, the Association of Former Agricultural Students inaugurated a war memorial for the three former teachers and 70 former students who died in World War I on the school grounds at Wohldstraße 46, Quakenbrück-Hakenkamp.

From June 22, 1925, the agricultural school was in the legal ownership of the district of Bersenbrück. The school building was increased from a three-semester to a four-semester institution for the expansion. In 1928, Rudorf became a member of the Royal Agricultural Society of Hanover as an agricultural councilor .

He made special regional merits in the establishment and development of agricultural testing and the milk control associations of Artland and the Osnabrück Herdbook Society. He made successful attempts at culture in the Osnabrücker Wohld and supported the farmers of Artland with his experience as an economic advisor and in questions of progressive management.

At the agricultural school, after Rudorf's state recognition and conversion into a four-semester institution, pupils in all agricultural and related subjects were able to acquire intermediate maturity and authorization for admission to a higher agricultural educational institution. On March 1, 1933, Rudorf retired as director of the agricultural school, where he taught over 1,000 farmers, and devoted himself only to his honorary functions.

The cultivation of the Artland for agriculture with intensive land use and animal breeding was mainly attributed to his work and he was therefore given the name "Ackerdoktor". The agricultural school was relocated to Badbergen for a short time from 1935 as a higher agricultural school and in 1937 as an agricultural school and continued until 1940. The former building of the Quakenbrück Agriculture School served as a vocational school from 1942–86 and is now a residential building.

Publications

  • Georg Rudorf (Karl Georg.): The effect of nitrogen in the solid and liquid waste matter of cattle, horses and sheep in a field culture experiment with oats, inaugural dissertation ... Verlag EM Monse, 1897

literature

  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Quakenbrück - From the border fortress to the commercial center , City of Quakenbrück, 1985, ISBN 3-9800335-3-8
  • André Kaiser: Agriculture Councilor Dr. Georg Rudorf died 50 years ago in Hartha health resort in Gemeindeblätt'l, Hartha health resort in March 1998
  • André Kaiser: On the 130th birthday and 50th anniversary of the death of the "Ackerdoktor", Dr. Georg Rudorf (1868 - 1948) in Gemeindeblätt'l, Kurort Hartha, August 1998
  • Heiko Bockstiegel: The agricultural school in Quakenbrück and its "agricultural doctor" - memories of Dr. Georg Rudorf (1868-1948) in Heimat-Jahrbuch 2003 - Osnabrücker Land, Georgsmarienhütte 2002, ISSN  1618-5757

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personal data
SURNAME Rudorf, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudorf, Karl Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Agriculture Council
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1948
Place of death Hartha health resort