Hans Niklas

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Hans Niklas (born July 12, 1884 in Traunstein , † November 19, 1944 in Munich ) was a German agricultural chemist and soil scientist .

Live and act

Hans Niklas was the son of the secondary school teacher Johannes Nepomuk Niklas (1847–1912) and the older brother of the agricultural politician Wilhelm Niklas (1887–1957).

He studied chemistry and agriculture at the Technical University of Munich , where he obtained his doctorate in 1911 with a dissertation on the influence of humus substances on the weathering of silicates. During his studies, he became in 1903 a member of the fraternity Stauffia Munich and the fraternity Teutonia Gdansk . He then worked as a research assistant at a state geological office, where he dealt with soil research. In 1917 he published the text “ Bavaria's soil cultivation taking into account geological and climatic conditions ”, which is important for crop production . After receiving the Venia legendi for agricultural soil science in 1918 , he represented this subject at the University of Agriculture and Brewery in Weihenstephan and at the Technical University of Munich in the following years . In 1922 he was appointed associate professor and in 1923 full professor.

From 1932 until his death, Niklas was full professor at the agricultural faculty of the Technical University of Munich on the chair for agricultural chemistry , soil science and animal nutrition and at the same time head of the Bavarian main research institute for agriculture. With a large number of measures he tried to introduce soil research into practical agriculture on a broad basis. In Weihenstephan he set up a soil investigation and mapping center and developed rapid methods for soil analysis. On January 27, 1944, he took part in the mycelium conference , which reported on attempts made by concentration camp inmates to give them 50 g of mycelium, a cellulose waste product, daily as a food substitute.

Of his publications , a book on the relationships between plant and soil nitrates that he has compiled together with F. Grandel deserves special mention. (1927). Niklas published several reviews in the ten-volume “ Handbuch der Bodenlehre ” published by Edwin Blanck . His five-volume " Literature Collection from the Entire Area of ​​Agricultural Chemistry " (1931–1939), which he published together with A. Hock, found high recognition in the professional world .

Publications (selection)

  • Investigations into the influence of humus substances on the weathering of silicates . Diss. Techn. Hochsch. Munich 1911. - Zugl. as a separate print: Verlag für Fachliteratur Berlin 1912.
  • Bavaria's soil management taking into account the geological and climatic conditions . J. Lindauersche Universitäts-Buchhandlung Munich 1917.
  • About the relationships between plant and soil nitrates and their most appropriate qualitative and quantitative determination using mostly our own methods (together with F. Grandel). Publishing house Dr. FP Datterer & Cie. Freising-Munich 1927 = Science and Agriculture H. 12.
  • The rating of the arable soil on a scientific basis . In: Handbuch der Bodenlehre. Edited by Edwin Blanck. Verlag Julius Springer Berlin Vol. 10, 1932, pp. 1-64.
  • Literature collection from the entire field of agricultural chemistry . Edited by H. Niklas and A. Hock. Publisher of the Agricultural Chemical Institute Weihenstephan of the Technical University of Munich Vol. 1–5, 1931–1939.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1940/41 . Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co. Berlin 1941, 6th edition, vol. 2, column 278 (with selected publications).
  • H. Room: The academic teaching figures of Bavarian agriculture . In: Bayerisches Landwirtschaftliches Jahrbuch vol. 36, 1959, pp. 741–761.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 352.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 436.
personal data
SURNAME Niklas, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Traunstein
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1944
Place of death Munich