Hans the lion
Hans Werner Löwe (born October 25, 1903 in Alt-Berkow, ( Altmark ); † November 18, 1989 in Hanover ) was a German farmer, horse breeder and university teacher.
Life
Born in Alt-Berkow as the son of a manor owner and raised in Prussia, Löwe attended the humanistic grammar school in Stendal from 1912 to 1921 . At home and in various companies in Silesia and the Province of Saxony, he went through three years of agricultural training after graduating from high school.
He then began studying agriculture in Halle (Saale) , which he graduated with a very good diploma in 1926 after six semesters (one of which was in Bonn) . In 1929 he received his doctorate as Dr. sc. nat. and became a volunteer assistant at the animal breeder Gustav Fröhlich in Halle. One year after his habilitation in 1938, he became a lecturer in animal breeding and feeding in Halle . In 1940 he went with his teacher Frölich as head of department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Animal Breeding Research in Rostock-Dummerstorf. After receiving his qualification there, he was appointed adjunct professor in 1944.
At the end of the war, he and his family managed to escape across the Elbe to Lower Saxony . Löwe became managing director of the stud book for draft horses in Lower Saxony e. V. In 1954 he was appointed head of the animal breeding department in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Agriculture , first as a senior councilor and finally as a government director. As Oberlandstallmeister, all of the studs in Lower Saxony were under his control. At the same time he was a lecturer in the field of horse breeding at the University of Göttingen .
After retiring in 1968, he worked for the Association of Hanoverian Warmblood Breeders and edited the Hanover Horse magazine until 1979 .
Political commitment
As a student in Halle, he was chairman of the German university ring and the AStA . In 1933 Löwe became a member of the SA and switched to the NSKK . On May 1, 1937, he was accepted into the NSDAP .
Corps student
Like his brothers Berthold and Ulrich, Hans Löwe became active in the Corps Palaiomarchia and, after three active semesters, also in the friendly Guestphalia Bonn . As a leftist, he fought fourteen games. Even before the Second World War he was chairman of Palaiomachia's old rule, during the war he was Philistine of the Comradeship Gustav Nachtigal and since 1972 he has been chairman of the AHV again. The AHV of the Corps Masovia awarded him the ribbon in 1960. The Corps Palaiomarchia-Masovia awarded him honorary membership in 1982. In Rostock, Löwe married the corps sister Ilse Printbrodt. The sons and grandchildren also became corps students.
Honors
- Silver Max Eyth commemorative coin
- Silver medal of the Directorate for Thoroughbred Breeding and Racing
- Golden badge of honor from the Trakehner Association
literature
- Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 425
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Löwe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Hans Löwe in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
- Entry on Hans Löwe in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 55/451; 10/819
- ^ List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823–2005 . Potsdam 2006
- ↑ K. Buchholz, W. Büttner: Obituaries for Hans Löwe . Corpszeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 86, Kiel 1990, pp. 2716–2718
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leo, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Löwe, Hans Werner (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German farmer, horse breeder and university teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alt-Berkow , Altmark |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1989 |
| Place of death | Hanover |