Heinrich Kannenberg

Heinrich Kannenberg (born July 7, 1887 in Schönfelde (Province of Posen), † July 26, 1966 in Bremen ) was a German moor researcher , cultural technician and grassland scientist .

Life

Kannenberg studied agriculture in Hohenheim , Berlin and Halle / S. and obtained his doctorate in 1917 at the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on the moorland culture . In 1921 he took over the management of the Bremen Agricultural Department of the Association for the Promotion of Bog Culture in the German Empire . From 1926 to 1941 he was the head of the moor research station in Neuhammerstein (East Pomerania). He then headed the Institute for Moor Culture and Forage Production at the Reich Research Institute in Bromberg as professor and director until 1944 .

After the Second World War , Kannenberg worked as a private scholar. He mainly researched the problem of trace elements in peat and mineral soils. He published over 100 scientific and practical articles in specialist journals . Of his books, the guide for the creation and maintenance of meadows and pastures, published in 1948, deserves special mention.

As a student in Leipzig he had joined the Corps Thuringia . In 1953 he also became a member of the Corps Rhenania Bonn .

Fonts

• Advances in bog culture (Niederungsmoor) , Reichsnährstand Verlag, Berlin 1939
• The best meadow and pasture. Practical guide for the appropriate creation and maintenance of meadows and pastures in yield , Verlag Schaper, Hanover 1948

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 175 ; 127 , 1031

literature

• W. Baden: Professor Dr. Heinrich Kannenberg on his 77th birthday . In: Zeitschrift für Kulturtechnik und Flurbereinigung Vol. 5, 1964, pp. 178–179.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Kannenberg in the catalog of the German National Library