Georg Wilsdorf

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Georg Max Wilsdorf (born June 23, 1871 in Schloßchemnitz , Kingdom of Saxony; † July 1, 1949 in Bad Schandau , Saxony) was a German certified farmer, animal breeding director and specialist book author.

Live and act

Wilsdorf was the son of the agriculture teacher Ernst Max Wilsdorf (1844-1926), graduated from high school in Chemnitz and then studied agriculture, law and economics in Poppelsdorf , Bonn and Leipzig . During his studies he became a member of the Marchia Bonn fraternity in 1891 . In 1895 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Saanen goat at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig Dr. phil. He then worked for three years as an agriculture teacher in Chemnitz and Rochlitz and - after having passed the animal breeding inspector's examination - from 1898 to 1909 as animal breeding director at the Chamber of Agriculture of the Brandenburg and Berlin provinces . From 1909 to 1923 he was employed as managing director of the German Society for Breeding Science . For the next two years he was director of wool recycling at the German Chambers of Agriculture , then director of the Association of German Sheep Breeders and the North German Sheep Breeding Associations and finally Chairman of the German Beef Cattle Show in Berlin. Wilsdorf last worked after 1934 as a clerk at the main association of the German cattle industry, also in Berlin.

Works (selection)

  • Monograph of the Swiss Saanen goat. Diss. To the philosopher. Fac. Of the Univ. Leipzig, 1895
  • The Swiss Saanen goat: their homeland, breeding and care, as well as their importance for German goat breeding. Berlin: Parey, 3 editions
  • Beneficial rabbit breeding. Leipzig: Hachmeister & Thal,
  • Goat breeding. Berlin: Parey, 1908–1951, 15 editions
  • Instructions for photographing the pets. Berlin: DGfZ , 1920
  • Animal breeding. Leipzig: Teubner, 1912, DGfZ pamphlet: 17; 3 editions
  • The importance of beef for the meat supply. With Max Herter. Berlin: DLG , 1912, DLG work: 206
  • The practical application of the newer heredity theory (lecture given at the hiking meeting of the DLG in Harzburg, June 1912), Berlin: DGfZ, 1912
  • Modern breeding, rearing and keeping of cattle. Leipzig: Reichenbach, 1913
  • The importance of the pig for the meat supply. With Max Herter. Berlin: Parey, 1914, work of the DLG: 270
  • The herd book keeping in the service of the national animal breeding. (Lecture from April 1913), Berlin: DGfZ, 1914, DGfZ pamphlet: 29
  • The importance of the sheep for meat production. With Max Herter, Berlin: Parey, 1918, 616 p., DLG work: No. 295
  • The most important East Frisian, Brandenburg, Hanoverian and Saxon black and white cattle lines. 5th ed., Edit. by Georg Wilsdorf, Berlin: DGfZ, 1920
  • Der Rechenknecht: Instructions for the practical farmer to obtain comparative figures of the body measurements obtained from living animals. By August Lydtin, 2nd edition, new and expanded. by O. Butz and Georg Wilsdorf, Berlin: DLG, 1922
  • Cattle transport: according to the provisions of the German railway animal tariff, the Reich Animal Welfare Act, the Reich Road Traffic Act and the main association of the German cattle industry. Compiled and explained. Berlin: Verlag Allgemeine Viehhandels-Zeitung GmbH, 1941
  • Proper feeding of small pets. By Löer, revised. by Georg Wilsdorf. Leipzig: Hachmeister & Thal, 1947 and 1951, 2 editions
  • Keeping, breeding and caring for rabbits. Detmold: Maximilian-Verlag, 1948
  • Beneficial rabbit breeding. 2. Keeping, feeding, breeding and caring for the rabbits. Leipzig: Hachmeister, 1949
  • Beneficial goat breeding. Leipzig: Hachmeister & Thal, 1951

Appreciation

Georg Wilsdorf has contributed to the establishment of several breeding associations for various animal species at the Chamber of Agriculture in the province of Brandenburg. He made great merits as managing director of the German Society for Breeding Science, where he supported the first stage of this association and also dealt with all types of farm animals. In the next periods he dealt with wool processing and sheep breeding, then with beef cattle and small animal breeding. As a result of his association activities, he has published many well-founded articles and several books, with the volume on goat breeding reaching 15 editions.

literature

  • Theophil Gerber: Personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - Biographical Lexicon - NORA Berlin, 4th exp. Ed., 2014, vol. 2, p. 864
  • Walther Killy et al .: Dictionary of German Biography, Volume 10: Thibaut - Zycha. De Gruyter, 2006, p. 540
  • German Pig Museum: Breeder Personalities.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 546.
  2. ^ Publication of goat breeding by Georg Wilsdorf in the DNB catalog
personal data
SURNAME Wilsdorf, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilsdorf, Georg Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graduate farmer, animal breeding director and specialist book author
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Schloßchemnitz , Kingdom of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1949
Place of death Bad Schandau , Saxony