Georgi Karlowitsch master

Georgi Karlowitsch Meister ( Russian Георгий Карлович Мейстер ; * April 15 ^July / April 27,  1873 ^greg. In Moscow ; † January 21, 1938 in Saratow ) was a Russian biologist , plant breeder and university professor .

Life

Meister, son of a master tailor , graduated from secondary school in Moscow in 1893. He studied at the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry Nowa Aleksandria with a degree in 1897. He then worked as a statistician in the Moscow city administration and for the Zemstvo of the Vladimir governorate . In 1902 he became Ujesd - agronomist of the Balashov Semstvo Office of the Saratov Governorate . 1904–1905 he took part in the Russo-Japanese War . In 1908 he became director of the Balaschow test field.

After the October Revolution , Meister became head of the plant breeding department in 1918 (until 1935) and in 1920 director (until 1926) of the Saratov plant breeding station, which later became the Research Institute for Agriculture of the Southeast. In 1921 he became a professor and headed the chair for genetics , plant breeding and horticulture at the Institute for Agriculture and Melioration Saratov (until 1932). In 1924 he became director of the Saratov seed breeding organization (until 1927) and in 1933 director of the Saratov plant breeding center. Among his students were Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Zizin , Alexei Pawlowitsch Schechurdin and Valentina Nikolajewna Mamontowa . In 1934, Master became a doctor of biological and agricultural sciences . In 1935 he became vice-president of the all-union academy for agricultural sciences "VI Lenin" (WASChNIL) and in 1937 he was deputy president.

In the time of the Great Terror , Meister was arrested on August 11, 1937. He was the No. 92 on the. Saratov -Erschießungsliste with 170 persons from the NKVD - Major Vladimir Yefimovich Zessarski compiled and Stalin , Voroshilov , Molotov and Kaganovich was signed on 21 January 1938. The Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR pronounced the death sentence, and the shooting took place on the same day. He was rehabilitated on December 26, 1957.

Master's wife Lyudmila Abramovna was a translator and literary scholar . Her daughter Nina was a scientist at the Research Institute for Agriculture of the Southeast. The adopted daughter Tatiana (1922–1989), doctor of physical and mathematical sciences and professor at the University of Leningrad , married the physicist Alexei Michailowitsch Schuchtin . Master's older brother Alexander Karlowitsch Meister was also a victim of the Great Terror with posthumous rehabilitation.

A street in Saratov bears Master's name.

Honors

• Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1929)
• Order of Lenin (1935)
• Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union (1936)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Биографическая энциклопедия РАСХН, ВАСХНИЛ: МЕЙСТЕР Георгий Карлович (accessed February 12, 2018).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Саратовский государственный аграрный университет имени Н.И. Вавилова: Мейстер Георгий Карлович ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 12, 2018). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Бессмертный барак: Мейстер Георгий Карлович (accessed February 12, 2018).
4. ↑ УЧЕНЫЕ В СТАЛИНСКИХ СПИСКАХ (accessed February 11, 2018).
5. ↑ Исследователи самоцветов Сибири (accessed February 11, 2018).