Hans Settegast

Hans Settegast̆ (* July 4, 1852 in Oszkarten bei Heydekrug ; † July 3, 1936 in Bad Köstritz ) was a German agricultural and horticultural teacher and head of the "Higher Gardener Training Institute" in Köstritz.

Live and act

Hans Settegast was born in 1852 as the eldest son of a landowner in the East Prussian district of Heydekrug and baptized with the name Johannes (Hans) Ewald Bernhard. After successfully attending secondary school in Memel (now Klaipėda ), he studied agriculture at the Universities of Königsberg and Berlin and agricultural chemistry at the University of Tübingen , where he received his doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty in 1878. In the same year he married Pauline Maier from Rottweil , then worked as a teacher from 1879 to 1881 and after one semester as director at the agricultural school in Brandis near Leipzig .

In 1881 Settegast opened a private agricultural training institute in Ronneburg ( Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg ). On the advice and with the support of the chamber estate and brewery leaseholder Rudolf Zersch senior. (1845–1907) he moved this school in 1886 to the “Reussian” Köstritz near Gera and immediately began training gardeners in addition to the agricultural branch. The private institute was located in the so-called Palais, the practical activities could be carried out on the Zersch estates. The fruit and horticultural school became a "horticultural school" in 1887 and from 1898 offered technical courses for gardeners and later for gardening inspectors. As the number of students increased, there was a need for two new buildings, which could be built and occupied by 1905. After the introduction of a 3rd and 4th semester, the school was elevated by the Reussian government to a "higher gardening training institute" and the examination was generally recognized as a state final examination.

Settegast was appointed professor in 1911 - after 25 years of successful work. As early as 1895 he had the "Garden and Fruit Growing Association for the Principality of Reuss j. L. “based in Köstritz. He also took care of the organization of his students, who in 1876 in Brandis and in 1888 in Köstritz founded the fraternity "Ceres" for agricultural students and in 1889 "Pomona" for horticultural students.

Because of the poor economic situation after the First World War , the municipality of Köstritz took over the previously privately run institute in 1923. Settegast gave up management in 1927 - after more than 40 years - and died in Bad Köstritz in 1936. In 1934 the school was developed into a state training facility by the Thuringian regional farmers' association. Because of the Second World War , the lessons had to be reduced and completely stopped in 1945. Thereafter, the technical college, later the agricultural engineering school for horticulture, took over the training in Erfurt , which is continued today by the horticulture teaching and research institute and the horticulture department at the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences .

Main work

• Contributions to quantitative spectral analysis. Diss. Univ. Tübingen, 1878, 42 pp.

• Determination of nitric acid and phosphoric acid by spectral analysis. In: Zeitschr. f. analytical chemistry, 1881, 116-117

• About the nitrogen content of the vegetable protein bodies according to the methods of Dumas and Will-Varrentrapp. In: Archives for the entire physiology of humans and animals, 1878, 293–301

• Illustrated horticultural handbook: a handbook, textbook and reference book from practice for practice. Edited by Hans Settegast, 1st edition Leipzig 1912, 2 volumes; 2nd edition Nordhausen 1922 (edited by HR Wehrhahn).

Honors

• As early as 1895 Settegast was accepted into the Gera Masonic Lodge ("Archimedes for the Eternal Covenant"). He was a member of it until it was closed in 1935.

• In 1911, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the opening of the agricultural school and the horticultural college in Köstritz, the Reussian government awarded the founder Dr. Hans Settegast the title of professor. He became an honorary member of several foreign associations.
• The city of Bad Köstritz appointed Prof. Dr. Hans Settegast an honorary citizen.

• There is a Prof. Settegast path in the Debschwitz district of Gera. The Bad Köstritz regular school has chosen “Hans Settegast” as its honorary name.

Appreciation

Hans Settegast was the founder of the first Horticultural School in Thuringia and developed it into a teaching institution recognized in Germany. Thanks to his very good training in the basic scientific subjects, he was able to focus on solid theoretical training for young horticulturalists and combine it with practical work in the school facilities and in companies. In 1913 students from 33 German provinces and 21 countries visited the gardener assistant department and the gardener technical center in Köstritz. In total, Settegast trained more than 3000 young farmers and over 4500 gardeners theoretically here and before in Ronneburg.

literature

• Gerber, Theophil: Personalities from agriculture and forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - Biographisches Lexikon. NORA Berlin, 4th ext. Ed., 2014, p. 735;

• Tonn, Detlef: Settegast. Hans - teacher for horticulture and agriculture, founder of the higher horticultural education in Thuringia. In: Thuringian Natural Letter v. January 13, 2010;

• Böhme, Bernd: “Institut Settegast” was inaugurated 100 years ago on March 10th. In: DER ELSTERTAL BOTE (Official Journal Bad Köstritz), 15th year, 15th February 2004;

• Böhme, Bernd: Prof. Dr. Hans Settegast - founder of the first Thuringian higher education institute for horticulture in Köstritz. In: DER ELSTERTAL BOTE (Official Gazette Bad Köstritz), 19th year, 15th February 2008; P. 11;

• Rottweil city archive: marriage 35/1878;

• Chronicle of the city of Gera;

• Paths of Life in Thuringia - Sixth Collection, Manuscript 2018;

• Settegast, Hans. In: Botanical Library (www.bibliotheka-botanica.de)

• Heimat- und Ortsverein Bad Köstritz e. V.

Web links

• German Pig Museum

Individual evidence

1. ^ Settegast, Hans - teacher for horticulture and agriculture
2. ↑ Bernd Böhme: "Institute Settegast"
3. ↑ Bernd Böhme “Prof. Dr. Hans Settegast "