Gustav Aufhammer

Gustav Aufhammer

Gustav Aufhammer (born February 22, 1899 in Larrieden , Bavaria , † January 26, 1988 in Freising ) was a German crop scientist and plant breeder .

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Gustav Aufhammer, son of the teacher Johann Aufhammer, studied agriculture at the Technical University of Munich from 1919 and obtained the title of qualified farmer in 1922. A predominantly practical activity brought him into close contact with plant breeding. In 1926 he returned to the Technical University of Munich. There he did his doctorate under the aegis of Ludwig Kießling with a dissertation on the interrelationships between plant breeding and agricultural technology .

After receiving his doctorate, Aufhammer worked as a research assistant for Kießling on a variety register of cultivated forms of barley . The most important result of these studies was the " Picture Atlas on Malting Barley ", published together with Kießling in 1931 . After completing this activity in the field of cultivar science, Aufhammer went to the district arable farming school in Triesdorf for several years . In 1936 he took over the management of the wheat department of the Bavarian State Plant Breeding Institute in Weihenstephan. Here he was mainly concerned with the breeding combination of yield, resistance and quality properties in grain. In close cooperation with the relevant research institutes in Berlin and Detmold, he developed the system, which was later introduced in Germany, of assigning wheat varieties to specific baking quality groups (A, B and C wheat).

In 1949, Aufhammer accepted an appointment at the Technical University of Munich . As a full professor and director, he took over the Institute for Arable and Crop Production in Weihenstephan , which he headed until his retirement in 1968. The cereal and cereal breeding were henceforth equal weight in the center of his research. It was a particular concern for him to counteract the spread of plant diseases through plant cultivation measures. He published a detailed overview of the research work carried out in his institute (1963 name changed to: Institute for Plant Cultivation and Plant Breeding) in the “Bavarian Agricultural Yearbook”.

Of his more than 350 articles in scientific and practical journals, his thoughtful treatise on " Location research in crop science " (1966) should be emphasized from a plant cultivation point of view . His book “ Neuzeitlicher Getreidebau ” (1959) was conceived primarily for agricultural practice . His main scientific work is the 1973 together with Gerhard Fischbeck wrote book " grain. Production Technology and Utilization ”- a standard work in German-language specialist literature on grain cultivation. From 1964 to 1966, Aufhammer was first chairman of the Society for Crop Science . His son Walter Aufhammer followed in his footsteps .

honors and awards

• 1964 Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1967 honorary member of the Society for Crop Science
• 1968 Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Bonn
• 1968 Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1969 Roemer Medal of the Working Group for Grain Research Detmold
• 1986 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art

Books and writings (selection)

• Agricultural Plant Breeding and Agricultural Engineering, A Presentation of Their Interrelationships and Advances . Dissertation Technical University of Munich 1928. At the same time in: Landwirtschaftliches Jahrbuch für Bayern, Vol. 18, 1928, pp. 229–294.
• Picture atlas for barley research (together with Ludwig Kießling ). Published by the Association for the Promotion of German Brewing Barley , Berlin 1931.
• Brewer's barley varieties (together with P. Pergal and FR Horne). D. van Nostrand Comp. Ltd., New York-Toronto-London 1958.
• Modern grain cultivation . DLG-Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1959; 2nd edition, ibid. 1963.
• The use of gamma irradiation systems for the treatment of plants (together with G. Fischbeck and A. Haisch). Verlag Gersbach Munich 1965 = Series of publications by the Federal Minister for Scientific Research: Radionukloide, issue 3.
• The Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture at the Technical University of Munich: Research work by the Institute for Plant Cultivation and Plant Breeding . In: Bayerisches Landwirtschaftliches Jahrbuch vol. 42, 1965, special issue 3, pp. 31–48.
• Site research in crop science . In: Location research. Series of publications by the Research Council for Food, Agriculture and Forests H. 1 , 1966, pp. 59–69.
• Grain. Production technology and recycling (with Gerhard Fischbeck) DLG-Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1973.

literature

• G. Fischbeck: Gustav Aufhammer 70 years . In: Zeitschrift für Acker- und Pflanzenbau Vol. 129, 1969, pp. 97-100 (with picture).
• G. Fischbeck: Obituary (Gustav Aufhammer). In: Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science Vol. 160, 1988, pp. 286-287 (with picture).
• G. Fischbeck: Former rector Gustav Aufhammer † . In: TUM-Mitteilungen der Technische Universität München for students, employees, friends , issue 2, 1988, p. 2 (with picture).

Web links

Commons : Gustav Aufhammer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Gustav Aufhammer in the catalog of the German National Library