Hermann Franz (hiking instructor)

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Hermann Franz (born October 10, 1841 in Worms , † November 7, 1908 in Weimar , Thuringia) was a German hiking instructor and association secretary in Thuringia .

Life

Franz received his specialist training at the Agricultural Academy from Dr. Heinrich Konrad Schneider in Worms and then worked as a hiking instructor in the Rheinhessen region . In 1870 he was appointed to Weimar and on June 1, 1872, he was awarded the title of secretary as managing director of the agricultural central office for the Grand Duchy of Saxony . In this committee, which was formed in 1865, Franz was responsible for coordinating the educational work in the main agricultural associations of the five administrative districts, for preparing legal regulations and for reporting.

At the same time, from June 1872, he took over the editing of the Landwithschaftliche Zeitung for Thuringia , which had been published since 1863 , the title of which changed several times, from 1887 was called the Thuringian agricultural newspaper and as a practical weekly for Central German agriculture. Organ of the agricultural central office for the Grand Duchy of Saxony and association newspaper for the agricultural associations in the Thuringian territories appeared. In addition to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar, Franz also included the other Thuringian territories in his activities. This was particularly evident in the two writings on the development of agriculture in Thuringia, which are still reference works today. With a thesis on the potato he was in 1873 at the University of Goettingen to the Dr. phil. PhD.

In the 30 years of his activity from 1870 onwards, Franz organized around 1200 meetings and gave over 2000 lectures. He also worked as an animal breeding inspector for the breed clubs in two administrative districts. Because of an eye ailment, he had to submit a request for dismissal and was retired on April 1, 1901 with the title of Landes-Oekonomierat . Previously, he was from 1872 economy commissioner and from 1898 Oekonomierat . On November 7, 1908, Franz died of a stroke. His grave is still preserved in the historic cemetery in Weimar. The Society for the History and Literature of Agriculture donated a commemorative plaque to Hermann Franz's last house.

The Agricultural Central Office developed into the Chamber of Agriculture for the Grand Duchy of Saxony in 1909, for Saxony-Weimar in 1918 and the Thuringian Main Chamber of Agriculture in 1925/26.

Fonts (selection)

  • Studies on the potato tuber: Contribution to the scientific justification of a rational potato culture. Diss. At the Nat.wiss. Department of the Phil. Fac. Göttingen, 1873.
  • Effectiveness and successes of the Wanderlehrer-Institut. Weimar 1874.
  • German agriculture, its past and its present situation in the industrial and commercial state. Hof-Buchdruckerei, Weimar 1875 (separate reprint from the Weimar newspaper)
  • The practical fertilizer host. 3. verb. Edition. Wiegandt, Berlin 1877.
  • The allegedly by Minister of State Dr. Delbrück wrote “Germany's grain traffic with abroad” before the Forum of Criticism: a popular study on daily bread. Springer, Berlin 1878.
  • The rural conditions in the Weimar district. Duncker & Humblot, 1883/1884.
  • German agriculture, its emergency situation and its resources. Thiel`s yearbook, Berlin 1886.
  • Agriculture in Thuringia, especially in the Grand Duchy of Saxony and its development in the last fifty years; a historical abstract of German agriculture and statistical help and manual for practical agriculture, authorities ..., with the appendix: The agricultural central office of the Grand Duchy of Saxony: retrospect on their thirty years of existence. P. Parey, Berlin 1896.
  • Credit and loan; Guide for Loan Seekers. 3. Edition. Berlin 1912.
  • Thirty years of agriculture in Thuringia: an accountability report as a picture of the time of agriculture. Aspirations. Hof-Druckerei Böhlau, Weimar 1900.
  • Editing of the specialist journals “Landwirthschaftliche Zeitung für Thüringen” (July 1872 - Dec. 1872), “Thuringian papers for field cultivation, meadow cultivation, cattle breeding and agricultural operations” (1873–1878), “Thüringische landw. Newspaper for ... ”(1879–1882); “ Thuringian agricultural newspaper. "(1883–1886)," Thuringian landw. Newspaper "(1887 to March 1901)

literature

  • Theophil Gerber: Personalities in agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - Biographical Lexicon. 3rd ext. Edition. NORA Verlagsgemeinschaft Berlin, 2008, ISBN 978-3-936735-67-3 , pp. 203/204.
  • Hans-Joachim Lorenz, Bernd Unger: The history of the farmers in Thuringia. Thür. Bauernverband e. V., 2008, pp. 101-102.
  • Bernd Mende: Franz, Hermann. In: Weimar - Lexicon of contemporary history. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1993, p. 123.
  • Hartmut Boettcher: Hermann Franz. In: Paths of life in Thuringia. Manuscript 2014.
  • Klaus Scheiber: The development of cattle breeding in Thuringia. Part 1: From the origin to the end of the 1st World War 1918. In: 5th history booklet of the TLL Jena. 1998, pp. 17-52.
  • Agricultural newspaper for Thuringia. No. 34/1871, No. 22/1872, 32/1872, 50/1872.
  • Thuringian agricultural newspaper. Issue 12/1901, 13/1901.
  • Obituary notice in: Thuringian agricultural newspaper. No. 46/1908, p. 361.
  • City Archives Weimar (2014): Entries in the death and grape books of Weimar for 1883, 1887, 1897, 1908.
  • General address books of the grand duke. Capital and residential city of Weimar for the years 1872 to 1910 - online via journals @ urmel (accessed in February 2014)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Agricultural newspaper for Thuringia. No. 22 of June 1, 1872.
  2. ^ Agricultural newspaper for Thuringia. No. 32 of August 10, 1872.
  3. ^ Digital scan of the dissertation
  4. ^ Thuringian agricultural newspaper. No. 12/1901, p. 93.
  5. ^ Thuringian agricultural newspaper. No. 46 of November 14, 1908, p. 361.
  6. ↑ Hans-Joachim Lorenz, Bernd Unger: The history of the farmers in Thuringia. Thür. Bauernverband e. V., 2008, p. 102.
  7. ^ Gustav Linckh: The organization of the agricultural profession in Thuringia. In: Becoming and working of the Thuringian Main Chamber of Agriculture Weimar. 1931, pp. 5-22.
personal data
SURNAME Franz, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hiking instructor for agriculture and association secretary in Thuringia
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1908
Place of death Weimar , Thuringia