Hans Peschetz

Hans Peschetz (* 1901 ; † 1968 ) was an Austrian train driver and beekeeper .

Life

As a beekeeper, Peschetz kept a mixture of Carinthian and Italian bees, as was common in all of Carinthia and Styria at the time. In May 1926 he received a swarm weighing 3.5 kg from a village with a small apiary in Upper Carinthia, which had special characteristics. Peschetz himself describes the following: "The swarm expanded all the middle walls it was given in a very short time and established itself as a strong people that was extremely eager to collect." Peschetz established a pure breeding registration point for this swarm in one of the closest high mountain valleys and named it "Höritzen". The approval, recognition and naming of the tribe as K - Peschetz 332 took place in June 1941 at the Peschetz stand in St. Veit an der Glan by the then "Reichskörmeister" Gottfried Goetze. During the war, Peschetz queens were also given to northern Germany for “testing”. The variant of the Carinthian bee (Carnica), known as the Peschetzbiene , then quickly spread throughout northern Germany. In 1950, the "Puan Klent" island registration office was founded on Sylt and has been in operation ever since. In 1968 Hans Peschetz died, his breeding farm in Carinthia was no longer continued. Today this strain of the Carinthian bee is mainly represented in northern Germany.

Publications

• Hans Peschetz: The way to the best honey bee (The bee book for everyone). Ploetz & Theiss, 1947.
• Hans Peschetz: From beginner to master: Carnica bee book. Alsatia, 1954.

Web links

• The origin and path of the Peschetz bee