Heinz Henseler (animal breeder)

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Heinz Henseler (born May 7, 1885 in Euskirchen , Rhineland, † February 12, 1968 in Munich ) was a German agricultural scientist and animal breeder.

Live and act

Henseler attended elementary school in Euskirchen and high school in Bonn . After his school leaving examination (1903) he learned the agricultural profession on an estate in the Rhineland and worked as a manager in two companies - interrupted by study trips to Denmark and Sweden. After serving as a one-year volunteer , he studied natural sciences and agriculture at the University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1906 and graduated with a diploma. In between there was another study trip to England and Scotland.

In 1909/10 Henseler was a substitute assistant in the department for meteorology and crop production in the Agricultural Institute of the University of Halle. In 1910 he received his doctorate under Rudolf Disselhorst Dr. phil. He then became a senior assistant in the animal breeding and dairy department in Halle and completed his habilitation in 1913 with a morphological-physiological thesis at the agricultural department of the Philosophical Faculty there. Interrupted by military service in the First World War , Henseler was appointed associate professor for animal breeding at the University of Göttingen in 1916 and in 1920 as full professor for animal breeding and breeding biology at the Technical University of Munich . This also included a teaching position for general agriculture studies at the veterinary faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Henseler went on numerous study trips and also used them to buy animals.

He was a member of the NSDAP (membership number 3.201.203).

As a scientist he dealt with general questions of animal breeding and special chapters on horses, sheep, pigs, dogs and cats as well as with the history of breeding. In 1945 he was given leave of absence and retired in 1948. During these years Wilhelm Zorn took over the lectures and Fritz Stockklausner succeeded him in 1948.

Main work (selection)

  • About the specific weight and the chemical composition of the bone substance of running and step horses in relation to bone strength. Halle, philosopher. Diss., 1910. Halle a. S.: Hohmann.
  • Investigations into the tribal history of running and step horses and their bone strength. Hanover: Schaper, 1912; Work of the DGfZ, H. 14.
  • Investigations into the influence of nutrition on the morphological and physiological structure of the animal body. Hab. Writing at the Phil. Fac. Halle, Kühn-Archiv, Vol. 3, 1913.
  • Prof. Dr. Simon of Nathusius. His life picture. In: Kühn Archive, 2nd half volume, 1913, pp. VII-XIII.
  • Simon of Nathusius. His publications. In: Kühn-Archiv, 4, 1914, pp. 425–442.
  • About the meaning of Mendel's inheritance rules for practical animal breeding and the corresponding experiments in the pet garden in Halle. 1913, issue 23 of the DGfZ.
  • Practical guide to measuring horses. With Otto Butz and Friedrich Schöttler, Berlin: German Society for Zuchtungskunde (DGfZ). 1921.
  • From animal breeding in Australia and New Zealand: Report on the results of a study trip carried out in 1926/27. Berlin: Parey, 1929.
  • Contribution to the customer of the horse punches. Berlin: DLG, 1931, issue 382 of the DLG.
  • Handbook of sheep breeding and keeping. 1939

Awards

literature

  • Theophil Gerber: personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine. Biographical Lexicon. NORA Verlagsgemeinschaft Dyck & Westerheide, Berlin, 3rd ext. Ed., 2008, ISBN 3-936735-67-0 , p. 294;
  • Professor catalog of the University of Halle
  • So far, with the Hermann von Nathusius medal Excellent

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professor Catalog Halle
  2. ↑ ord. Prof. Heinz Henseler: Lecturer at the veterinary Faculty and membership in the examination board of the LMU Munich for economists (1933), pp. 15 and 53
  3. ↑ Professor catalog Halle on Heinz Henseler
personal data
SURNAME Henseler, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agronomist and animal breeder
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Euskirchen , Rhineland
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1968
Place of death Munich