Hans Lüdecke

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Hans Lüdecke (born September 28, 1896 in Zerbst , † January 18, 1972 in Göttingen ) was a German crop scientist . From 1953 to 1966 he was director and professor of the newly founded Institute for Sugar Beet Research in Göttingen.

Life

Hans Lüdecke attended high schools in Köthen and Dessau . After graduating from high school, he went to the First World War , from which he returned home as an officer. After completing an agricultural apprenticeship on an estate at the Glauzig sugar factory, he began studying agricultural science and business administration at the University of Halle in the 1920s . With his Corps Palaiomarchia he clung to the first batch. In 1923 he received his doctorate in Halle with a business thesis on the cultivation of sugar beet. Then he worked as a scientific assistant at the Agricultural Research Station in Bernburg / Saale . There he later took over the management of the field and vessel tests department. In 1939 he was appointed professor and at the same time director of the traditional experimental station, which had become known far beyond the borders of Germany as Hermann Hellriegel's workplace before the turn of the century.

In World War II Liidecke became a soldier again. As a major and commander of the experimental department at the Dessau-Rosslau Pioneer School, he was taken prisoner of war . After his release he went to Braunschweig and in 1946 took over the planning of sugar beet cultivation in Lower Saxony . Only now did Lüdecke's life's work begin; because all research and test stations for beet cultivation were in the east, especially in Saxony-Anhalt . The sugar factories in the three western zones united in the Association of the Sugar Industry . On his behalf, Lüdecke set up a "Research Center for Sugar Beet Cultivation" in 1947 on the Holtensen experimental farm at the University of Göttingen . This experimental station became the nucleus for the Institute for Sugar Beet Research, founded in Göttingen in 1953 , of which Lüdecke was director until 1966. Under his leadership, the institute developed into the central research center in the field of sugar beet cultivation in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Lüdecke coined the term “adjusted sugar yield” as an evaluation parameter for the performance of the sugar beet. A large number of publications document his versatile, always practice-oriented work in the field of sugar beet research. His book Zuckerrübenanbau, first published in 1953 . A practical guide has long been considered a standard work. Since 1948 Lüdecke was co-editor of the magazine "Zucker". At the Technical University of Braunschweig and at the University of Göttingen he gave lectures on current topics in the field of sugar beet research. The German Agricultural Society honored him in 1961 by awarding him the Silver Max Eyth commemorative coin .

The Corps Masovia , based in Kiel at the time , awarded him the ribbon in 1960.

Fonts

  • Sugar beet growing. A practical Guide. Paul Parey Publishing House Hamburg and Berlin 1953, 2nd edition 1961.
  • The term “adjusted sugar yield” as an evaluation parameter for the performance of the sugar beet. In: Agricultural Research. Volume 7, 1954/55, pp. 24-30.
  • with Christian Winner: Color chart atlas of diseases and damage to sugar beet. DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt (Main) 1959, 2nd edition 1966.
  • with Christian Winner: The Institute for Sugar Beet Research in Göttingen - history and tasks. In: New archive for Lower Saxony. Volume 14, 1965, pp. 87-94.

literature

  • Professor Dr. Hans Lüdecke on his 70th birthday. In: sugar. Year 19, 1966, pp. 526–527 (with picture).
  • Christian Winner: Hans Lüdecke died. In: Communications from the German Agricultural Society. Volume 87, 1972, p. 142.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930: 61, 396.
  2. ↑ Lüdecke introduced the uniform evening, to which the returning soldiers appeared among the corps brothers in uniform.
  3. ↑ Schunorth: Obituary for Hans Lüdecke. in: Newspaper of the Altmark Masuria. 50, Kiel 1972, pp. 1070-1072
  4. ↑ Jürgen Herrlein , Amella Mai (ed.): Directory of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 2005. Potsdam 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Lüdecke, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German crop scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Zerbst
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1972
Place of death Goettingen