Herbert Petzold (pomologist)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Herbert Petzold (born October 10, 1910 in Wurzen ; † February 25, 1997 ) was a German pomologist and author of specialist books.

Life

Youth and years until 1945

Herbert Petzold was born in the hill country of Upper Saxony as the son of a farmer . His father was the administrator of the Wurzen city estate. Petzold was the eldest son of the family and grew up in the small town area of ​​Wurzen. After secondary school , he attended the agricultural technical college in Wurzen from 1925 to 1928 , where he received an education in fruit growing in addition to agricultural studies. He was involved in the Wandervogel movement and was interested in many things, including music. He rode his bike to the Netherlands to visit museums. The landscape paintings and still lifes of old Flemish masters left a special impression on him. In Leipzig he trained in rhetoric and phonetics and worked in the following years as a freelance reciter . He read works from world literature at schools and clubs. His spectrum ranged from the ancient Greeks and classics to artists of the time such as Agnes Miegel and Rainer Maria Rilke . In order to get a more secure career, he trained as a librarian between 1935 and 1937 and then worked in the profession in Wurzen. During World War II he was a soldier and then a prisoner of war .

Working life in the GDR

After returning home from captivity, he found no employment in what had been a professions that have since been more aesthetic. After successfully passing the tree maintenance exam , he initially worked as a tree maintenance consultant and seller of tree plants that he had discovered in gardens and the landscape. From 1950 he was employed as a specialist teacher at his former agricultural school in Wurzen, which he helped develop into a special school for fruit and wine growing. The courses he held here also for masters, tree maintenance and specialist advisors gave him the necessary reference to fruit growing practice, which was regarded as important. After the school moved to Werder , Petzold stayed in Wurzen. From 1955, the former teaching garden of the school served the fruit research department of the Central Office for Variety Management of the GDR , based in Nossen, as a branch office for pome fruit . Petzold was jointly responsible for setting up the trial plantings and viewing gardens and, after the foundations for the approval of tree nursery and strawberry planting material had been created, for accompanying the variety approval. He was also a member of the Variety Commission at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR . In 1961, the first newly approved apple varieties were recommended and in 1971 his fruit variety guide appeared for the first time . As early as 1970 a brochure on the cultivation of table grapes was published as a result of which over 100,000 table grape plants were grown and sold.

The apricot varieties Marena , the apple varieties Roba (a mutant of Erwin Baur ), Rogo , Gelber Köstlicher and Wudinia were named by him.

Life in retirement

He took early retirement in 1973 for health reasons. He began to publish his extensive knowledge. His standard works apple varieties and pear varieties appeared in 1979 and 1982 in the first edition. A total of 180 individual articles from his pen were published in specialist journals.

In addition, as a recognized connoisseur of varieties and variety teacher, he was a sought-after specialist. His knowledge was extensive enough to determine all varieties and to name the advantages and disadvantages of certain varieties for a location. He gave lectures on this topic at countless exhibitions, courses and training courses and certain variety samples sent to him every year.

Petzold was an honorary member of the pomologists' association .

He was married and died after a brief illness in February 1997.

Works

As an author

  • with Gerhard Friedrich and Ernst Halwass: Fruit varieties , Radebeul, Neumann, 1993, 4th edition, ISBN 3-7402-0134-7
  • Apple varieties , Radebeul, Neumann, 1990, 4th edition, ISBN 3-7402-0075-8
  • Pear varieties , Radebeul, Neumann, 1989, 3rd edition, ISBN 3-7402-0069-3
  • Table grape cultivation: vines from Rügen to Römhild , Berlin, (Association of allotment gardeners, settlers and small animal breeders, central board), 1971

As editor

  • Wurzen fruit growing letters from the fruit and viticulture school Wurzen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Werner Schuricht : Herbert Petzold - a pomologist became 85 in Pomologenverein eV Pomologisches Jahresheft 1996 , Aue / Sachsen, 1996, p. 7ff.
  2. ↑ a b c Werner Schuricht: Pomologist Herbert Petzold 1997 died in Pomologenverein eV Pomologisches Jahresheft 1997/98 , Aue / Sachsen, 1996, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Petzold, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pomologist and author of specialist books
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Spice up
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1997