Gustav Fischer (agricultural technician)

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Gustav Fischer (born November 28, 1870 in Berlin , † August 24, 1963 in Berlin ) was a German agricultural engineer . He has taught at the Agricultural University in Berlin since 1902 and is considered the "old master of scientific agricultural engineering".

Life path

Grave site , Königin-Luise-Straße 55, in Berlin-Dahlem

Gustav Fischer, who originally worked as a government master builder for the Berlin Railway, gained extensive knowledge and experience in agricultural practice and in an agricultural machinery factory as a scholarship holder of the German Agricultural Society since 1898 . He undertook " a study trip to North America over a period of 5 months in 1901 " and attended lectures at the Technical University in Berlin-Charlottenburg and at the University of Halle (Saale) . After this “special study” he received his doctorate in Berlin in 1902 with the dissertation “ The social significance of machines in agriculture ”.

In April 1902 Fischer was appointed " to the provisional administration of the chair for agricultural engineering " at the Agricultural University of Berlin and after one year appointed " the regular professor " of this chair. This gave him the first full professorship for agricultural machinery in Germany. In 1919 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin, where he held lectures to inspire students of mechanical engineering for agriculture. In 1932 he had to retire from active university service because of a heart condition. In 1945 he took over his old chair in Berlin for two years and took part in the reconstruction of the agricultural machinery institute, which was almost destroyed by bombs.

Teaching and Research

Through his teaching and research activities, Fischer has made a decisive contribution to developing traditional, predominantly descriptive, agricultural engineering into an experimental agricultural machinery science. In the three decades of his activity as a university lecturer, he carried out comparative tests for agricultural machines, partly in cooperation with the German Agricultural Society and other institutions. The assessment of the results and the suggestions for improvement derived from them have sustainably promoted the development of agricultural machinery in Germany.

The list of publications fisherman includes 155 works from all areas of agricultural technology. Of his books, two repeatedly published textbooks on agricultural engineering and the “ History of the German Agricultural Society ” , published in 1936 and co-authored with J. Hansen, deserve special mention . For his services in the field of agricultural engineering, the German Agricultural Society awarded him the Silver Max Eyth Commemorative Coin in 1910 , and later also the gold one. 1918 Fischer became a Privy Councilor appointed. In 1948 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn .

Major works

  • The social significance of machines in agriculture . Diss. Phil. Berlin 1902. - Zugl. in: Political and social science research . Volume 20, Issue 5, 1902.
  • The development of agricultural machinery in Germany . Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the German Agricultural Society. Edited by G. Fischer et al. Berlin 1910 = work of the German Agricultural Society, issue 177.
  • Agricultural engineering . Verlag G. Teubner Leipzig and Berlin 1910; 2nd edition, ibid. 1919: 3rd edition, ibid. 1926. = From nature and the spiritual world, volume 316.
  • Agricultural engineering. Text and auxiliary book for students and farmers . Publishing house Eugen Ulmer Stuttgart 1928; 2nd edition, ibid. 1951. - Unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1928: Weltbild-Verlag Augsburg 2005.
  • History of the German Agricultural Society (together with J. Hansen). German publishing company Berlin 1936.

Web links

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

literature

  • H. Heyde: Privy Councilor Gustav Fischer 80 years old . In: German agriculture . Volume 1, 1950, p. 119 (with picture).
  • Ebertz: Gustav Fischer died . In: Communications from the German Agricultural Society . Volume 78, 1963, pp. 1214–1215.
  • Helmut Meyer: Obituary for Privy Councilor Gustav Fischer . In: Agricultural research . Year 13, 1963, pp. 169–170 (with picture).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GStA PK I. HA Rep. 89 No. 31929, fol 126 r
  2. ↑ GStA PK I. HA Rep. 89 No. 31929, fol. 125 r and 126 r
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural technician
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1963
Place of death Berlin