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Hans (Johannes) Raum (born November 1, 1883 in Hilpoltstein ; † October 20, 1976 in Freising ) was a German crop scientist and agricultural historian .

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Raum studied agriculture at the Technical University of Munich and received his doctorate there in 1906 with a dissertation on morphological changes in cereal grains depending on climatic conditions. He then worked as a seed breeding inspector. From 1912 he worked at the Bavarian State Plant Breeding Institute Weihenstephan . In 1921 he accepted a call as professor of agriculture at the University of Agriculture and Brewery in Weihenstephan. Here he represented the fields of plant breeding, seed science and grassland management. In 1934 he was given early retirement for political reasons. From 1946 until his retirement in 1949 he was full professor and director of the Institute for Arable and Plant Production at the Technical University of Munich in Weihenstephan.

Space for the preservation and reproduction of older genetic material for plant breeding earned great merit. He sustainably promoted forage production and grassland management in Bavaria. His book publications were primarily practice-oriented writings. After his retirement, he spent more than twenty years researching the history of agricultural sciences in Weihenstephan and Munich and published the results of his studies in a large number of publications. Most of these contributions appeared in the Bavarian Agricultural Yearbook and in a series of publications that he himself edited under the title Contributions to the History of Weihenstephan .

After the Second World War, Raum was the first dean of the agricultural faculty at the Technical University of Munich and was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit (awarded in 1963). In addition, he was a member of the Bavarian State Constitutional Assembly in 1946 . A street in Freising is named after him .

Hans Raum became a member of the Catholic student union KDSt.V. on November 24th, 1902 during his studies . Vindelicia Munich in the CV .

Fonts

• Forage cultivation . Freising 1923 = Weihenstephan font collection for practical farmers H. 12.
• The meadow weeds and their control . Freising 1923, 2nd edition, ibid. 1929.
• The good meadow plants and their care . Freising 1925 = Practical Farmers Library.
• Contributions to the history of Weihenstephan H. 1–13, Weihenstephan 1954–1973. - In this series of publications (volume 10, 1967) Raum published his memoirs.

literature

• Hans Raum 80 years old . In: Communications from the German Agricultural Society. 78, 1963, ISSN  0341-0404 , pp. 1405-1406.
• Wolfgang Böhm : Hans (Johannes) room . In: Wolfgang Böhm: Biographical manual for the history of crop production. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11324-2 , p. 251 (here further bibliographical information on his historical publications).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Complete list of CV 1925, p. 483.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Raum in the catalog of the German National Library