Heinz Haushofer

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Heinz Konrad Haushofer (born June 16, 1906 in Munich ; † February 18, 1988 ) was a German farmer, agricultural scientist and official.

Life

He was the son of the geographer Karl Haushofer (1869-1946) and his wife Martha (née Mayer-Doss, 1877-1946). His brother was the geographer, diplomat and writer Albrecht Haushofer (1903–1945).

After Absolutorium 1924 at a grammar school in Munich Heinz Haushofer studied with regard to the possession of the parental Hartschimmelhofs in the municipality Pähl (Kreis Weilheim / Schongau) at the TH Munich agriculture and economy with the financial statements Dipl. Farmer and Dr. rer. tech. At the same time he worked at Hanns Dorn's institute of economics .

In 1928 he married Adrienne Desportes (* 1906), adopted daughter of the publisher Thomas Knorr (* August 9, 1851 Munich; † December 13, 1911 Munich, son of the newspaper publisher Julius Knorr ), who died in 1932 after the birth of the second child.

From 1929 Heinz Haushofer was a scientific assistant in the office of the Bavarian Chamber of Farmers (Director Michael Horlacher ), which was transferred to the Bavarian State Farmers' Association in 1933. After working for the Reichsnährstand in Berlin under Reichsbauernführer Walther Darré , he was an agricultural attaché at the German legation in Vienna and Budapest from 1937. In 1938 he completed his habilitation and was appointed private lecturer at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna and Munich.

Haushofer was now married to Luise, daughter of the book artist Paul Renner , with whom he had three more children. After a short period of time he was put back from military service as the "father of 5 unserved children". After July 20, 1944 , he was arrested on August 25, 1944 and then, like his brother Albrecht Haushofer , who was arrested on December 7, 1944, was held in the Lehrter Strasse cell prison in Berlin-Moabit . While Albrecht Haushofer on 22./23. Heinz Haushofer escaped this fate when he was murdered by the Gestapo in April 1945. He was released after eight months and then worked for a short time in the nutrition office of the city of Berlin, headed by Andreas Hermes .

Then he returned to his parents' Hartschimmelhof and took over the management. Both parents committed suicide there on March 10, 1946. After denazification as "exonerated" on November 26, 1946, Heinz Haushofer worked from 1947 on the re-establishment of the Bavarian Farmers 'Association, the Board of Trustees for Technology in Agriculture and the certified farmers' association and took part in international conferences abroad. From 1948 to 1953 he was director of the Bavarian Farmers' Association and from 1955 to 1957 at the agricultural machinery factory Heinrich Lanz AG in Mannheim, most recently as an authorized signatory and department head. In 1957 he was President of the Working Group for Mountain Farmers Issues, from 1958 to 1959 in the Central Committee of German Agriculture in Bonn under Andreas Hermes. In July 1958 he took part in the first EEC agricultural conference in Stresa . From 1962 to 1964 he was a policy advisor for agricultural policy in the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests under Minister Werner Schwarz , then on leave until 1968 to head the Central Office for Agriculture of the German Foundation for Developing Countries in Feldafing. In 1964 he handed over the Hartschimmelhof to his son Martin Haushofer .

For five years he was a lecturer at the political science faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as well as at its veterinary faculty. From 1965 he taught agricultural history in Weihenstephan and was appointed honorary professor in 1968.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • The agricultural reforms of the Austro-Hungarian successor states . Dissertation TH Munich 1928. Südost-Verlag, Munich 1929.
  • The agricultural structural balance . In: Odal. Monthly magazine for blood and soil, vol. 2, issue 10, April 1934, pp. 736-740.
  • Agricultural clan history . In: Odal. Monthly for Blood and Soil , Vol. 3, 1934, Issue 1, pp. 61–67.
  • We Bavaria! . E. Runge, Berlin 1935.
  • with Johann von Leers : Bavaria lead the plow to the east . Blut und Boden Verlag, Goslar 1938.
  • The agricultural political worldview . BG Teubner, Leipzig 1939.
  • History of ideas in agriculture and agricultural policy in the German-speaking area , Volume II, Bayerischer Landwirtschaftsverlag, Munich 1958.
  • with Hans-Joachim Recke (edit.): Fifty Years of the Reich Ministry of Food - Federal Ministry of Food , ed. from the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests , Bonn 1969.
  • Selected bibliography , in Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie (ZAA) 24 (1976) pp. 3–7.
  • My life as an agrarian. An autobiography 1924–1978 . Bayerischer Landwirtschaftsverlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 978-3405127350 .
  • From the Bavarian Agricultural History 1525–1978. Collected Posts . Bayerischer Landwirtschaftsverlag, Munich 1986. Commemorative publication for the 80th birthday, ISBN 978-3405132668 .

literature

  • Günther Franz: Professor Dr. Heinz Haushofer 70 years , in ZAA 24 (1976) pp. 1–7
  • Ders .: Heinz Haushofer [obituary], ibid. 36 (1988) p. 1 f.
  • Hermann Röcken. Veterinary medicine on the move Part III: Heinz Haushofer . Books on Demand GmbH February 2004 Title page in the Google book search

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Menges:  Knorr, Thomas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 218 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Haushofer, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haushofer, Heinz Konrad (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist and functionary
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1988