Gustav Comberg

Gustav Comberg (born December 18, 1910 in Werden-Land / Essen , † October 13, 1984 in Hanover ) was a German agricultural scientist , breeding researcher and university professor.

Life

After studying agriculture in Bonn and Breslau, Comberg worked at the Research Institute for Animal Breeding in Tschechnitz (1936–1945 Kraftborn ) near Breslau. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . After the years of military service, Comberg worked in the animal breeding office in Halle / Saale and from 1947 in the animal breeding institute of the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg as head of the Iden-Rohrbeck branch (Altmark). He completed his habilitation at the University of Halle and was then director of the Institute for Animal Breeding and Dairy Farming and a professor at the University of Leipzig in 1951 . One year later, in 1952, Comberg was given the chair for animal breeding and dairy farming at the agricultural and horticultural faculty at Leipzig University.

Gustav Comberg was a member of the GDR Academy of Agricultural Sciences . From 1960 to 1973 he took over the management of the Institute for Animal Breeding and Heredity Research at the TH Hannover . He died in Hanover at the age of 74.

Publications (selection)

• Tierzüchtungslehre , Ulmer, 1971, ISBN 3-8001-2109-3
• Animal husbandry , with Johannes K. Hinrichsen, Ulmer Verlag, 1974, ISBN 3-8001-2119-0
• German animal breeding in the 19th and 20th centuries , Ulmer, 1984, ISBN 3-8001-3061-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FU Berlin - Biography ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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 December 26, 2011. 
2. ↑ Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig , accessed on December 26, 2011.