Heinz Janert

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Heinz Adolf Janert (born November 18, 1897 in Prökuls , Memelland , † October 4, 1973 in Greifswald ) was a German soil scientist and professor at the University of Greifswald .

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Heinz Janert, son of a district judge, finished his school career in 1914 with the Abitur . Janert served from 1914 to 1918 as a soldier at the front in World War I , most recently as a first lieutenant. From 1918 to 1922 he studied agriculture at the Universities of Göttingen and Königsberg , which he completed with a doctorate as Dr. phil. graduated in soil science from the University of Königsberg . In 1927 he obtained his habilitation in soil science at the University of Leipzig with the thesis: New methods for determining the most important basic physical constants of soil. From 1923 to 1927 he was an assistant at the Institute for Improvement and Peatland Culture at the Prussian Agricultural Experimental and Research Institute in Landsberg a. W. In 1931 he received a research grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for cultural-technical-soil science work in England, where he spent eight months.

From 1927 to 1934 he taught as a private lecturer and then until 1938 as a professor of cultural engineering at the mathematical and natural science department of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig. From 1938 he was a professor and then from 1939 to 1944 full professor for cultural engineering and soil science at the University of Königsberg.

After the end of the war he taught from 1946 to 1947 as a professor with a chair for soil science and cultural engineering at the University of Rostock , where he was also dean in 1946 . From 1948 until his retirement in 1964 he was professor with the chair for applied soil science and soil improvement at the University of Greifswald. He was secretary of the International Soil Science Society since 1930. From 1951 he was a member of the Regional Culture and Grassland Section of the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin.

Janert is considered one of the pioneers in agricultural wastewater use. In 1961 he was awarded in the GDR the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

Political activity

Janert signed the declaration of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler in 1933 . He was a member of the SA since 1933, a member of the Reichskolonialbund since 1937 and of the NSDAP from 1937 to 1943. He was imprisoned from 1944 to 1945 and was charged with before the People's Court . He was in the Dreibergen prison in Bützow and was liberated there in May 1945. After the end of the war, Janert was temporarily Lord Mayor of Wismar from June 22, 1946 to August 2, 1946 .

Publications (selection)

  • Soil science internship. Instructions for agronomists to independently examine the soil using simple methods , Berlin (East) 1953.
  • City cleaning , Berlin (East) 1955.
  • Textbook of soil improvement , 2 volumes, Berlin (East) 1961.
  • The new beginning in Wismar , in: Liberation and new beginning , Staatsverlag Berlin (East) 1966, pp. 146-250

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SURNAME Janert, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janert, Heinz Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soil scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Prokuls
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1973
Place of death Greifswald