Hans Wilbrandt

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Hans Wilbrandt (born January 4, 1903 in Berlin ; died February 12, 1988 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German agricultural scientist . During the time of National Socialism , he emigrated to Turkey , where he was the contact person for the American government in the Kreisau District . After the Second World War , it played a role in the development of agricultural development cooperation in Germany.

Time until 1933

Wilbrandt was the son of the national economist Robert Wilbrandt and grandson of the director of the Vienna Burgtheater Adolf Wilbrandt . His younger brother Walther Wilbrandt worked as a pharmacologist at the University of Bern .

He studied agricultural science in Göttingen and Berlin . Afterwards, he was initially employed for agricultural policy issues at the Research Center for Economic Policy in Berlin. Wilbrandt received his doctorate in 1930 at the agricultural college in Berlin under Professor Friedrich Aereboe . Afterwards he was a research assistant, private lecturer and deputy head of the institute for agricultural market research at the agricultural university.

emigration

After the beginning of the National Socialist rule he was dismissed from university service for racial and political reasons according to the law for the restoration of the civil service . Wilbrandt emigrated to Turkey in 1934. He worked there as a government advisor and expert on agricultural issues. In particular, he advised the government on setting up an agricultural cooperative system. After his political dismissal, he worked in the Turkish private sector from 1940 to 1952.

In Turkey he was in contact with the US secret service OSS and was a member of the anti-Nazi German Freedom Association with Alexander Riistow , Ernst Reuter and others . During the Second World War he was one of the contact persons of the American government for the Kreisau Circle. In 1943 Helmuth James Graf von Moltke came to Turkey and visited Wilbrandt, whom he knew from earlier times. Moltke gave this and Riistow a memorandum containing military information, the situation in Germany, but also a report on the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto . After Moltke's departure, Riistow and Wilbrandt wrote a report that is said to have reached President Franklin D. Roosevelt . It proposes cooperation between the German resistance and the Western powers in order to prevent the feared Bolshevization of Germany. Moltke's widow Freya von Moltke later stated that this memorandum only reflects Moltke's views “with reservations”.

Immediately after the war, Wilbrandt worked closely with Ernst Reuter, among others, on international refugee aid in Turkey.

Agricultural development cooperation

He returned to Germany in 1953. Initially he was a research assistant at the Institute for the World Economy and at the FAO . In 1957 he distinguished himself as an advisor to the government of Afghanistan with an agricultural development report. In 1959, Wilbrandt was a professor and founding director of the Institute for Foreign Agriculture at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1962 he was the founder of the “Journal for Foreign Agriculture”. This has been operating as the “Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture” since 2000. In 1963 he moved to Göttingen , where he was the founder of the Institute for Foreign Agriculture.

In addition, he worked as an expert on behalf of the German government and international organizations. For example, at the beginning of the 1960s, several global economic research institutes collaborated on development policy issues. The Wilbrandt Institute was responsible for Africa . In 1961 he was the spokesman for a high-ranking German business and advisory delegation in Kenya and other countries. In 1962 he was the first to offer specific seminars for agricultural development aid in his institute.

From 1954 he was also temporarily managing director of the German-Turkish Society.

Publications (selection)

  • Agricultural crisis and rationalization , 1930
  • The German agricultural problem , 1933
  • Solution to the Turkish foreign trade crisis through increasing agricultural exports , 1944
  • The regulation of the milk market in Switzerland , 1954

literature

  • Siegfried Mielke (Ed.) With the collaboration of Marion Goers, Stefan Heinz , Matthias Oden, Sebastian Bödecker: Unique - Lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics (1920-1933) in the resistance against National Socialism. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-032-0 , pp. 68-70 (short biography).
  • Hans Wilbrandt 60 years. In: Tagesspiegel January 1, 1963
  • Short biography In: Present-day problems in agricultural economics. Festschrift for Fritz Baade on his 65th birthday on January 23, 1958.
  • Reiner Möckelmann : Ankara waiting room. Ernst Reuter - exile and return to Berlin. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-8305-3143-2 , pp. 192–206.
  • Julius Otto Müller: Wilbrandt, Hans. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 744-748.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945. Volume 2.2. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1245.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Mielke (ed.) With the collaboration of Marion Goers, Stefan Heinz , Matthias Oden, Sebastian Bödecker: Unique - lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics (1920-1933) in the resistance against National Socialism. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-032-0 , p. 68 f.
  2. ^ Helmuth James Graf von Moltke's memorandum to Hans Wilbrandt and Alexander Rüstow on the conditions in Germany and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (July 9, 1943). Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Kemal Bozay: Exile Turkey. A research contribution on German-speaking emigration in Turkey (1933–1945). Lit-Verlag, 2001, p. 81.
  4. ↑ Handelsblatt, January 3, 1961
  5. ^ FAZ May 4, 1962
  6. ↑ Schleswig-Holsteinische Volkszeitung January 27, 1954
personal data
SURNAME Wilbrandt, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1988
Place of death bad Godesberg