Hermann Priebe (agricultural scientist)

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Hermann Priebe (born February 10, 1907 in Berlin-Grunewald ; † July 2, 1997 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German agricultural scientist , university professor and author. On March 6, 1987, Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker awarded him the Great Federal Cross of Merit for his services .

Life

He was one of the five children of the evangelical clergyman Hermann Priebe (1871–1961) and his wife Irmgard, née von Versen. After graduating from high school , he enrolled at the Albertus University in Königsberg , completed his studies in 1932 and obtained his doctorate in 1936 at the Agricultural University of Berlin with the dissertation The development of the size of farms in 30 localities in the Greifswald district from the Middle Ages to Present as a Doctor of Agronomy (Dr. agr.) He was then employed from 1936 to 1942 as a consultant for example companies in the Reich Board of Trustees for Technology in Agriculture (RKTL) in Berlin. In 1943 habilitated he at the University of Giessen to professor and was from 1943 to 1944 Director of the Research Institute of Potsdam-Bornim .

After the attack on Poland, Hermann Priebe approached the resistance group around Friedrich Hielscher . After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 in Wolfsschanze , he was arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin, along with Hielscher and Paul Widany . After he was released from the Lehrter Strasse cell prison , he was drafted into the 9th Infantry Regiment , known as “Count Neun”, and assigned to the Eastern Front “for the purpose of probation ”. Richard von Weizsäcker, who served as a regimental adjutant in this unit in Wartenburg , destroyed the recall order and protected Hermann Priebe from the Gestapo. Priebe later stated: "I could say that I owe my life to Richard von Weizsäcker".

“Priebe, later professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main, was leader of the 1st company , Weizsäcker regimental adjutant. He remembered an episode from January 1945 when the great Russian final offensive had begun. Because of personal connections to the July 20 conspirators, Priebe was arrested by the Gestapo in Potsdam immediately after the assassination attempt and imprisoned in the Lehrter Strasse prison for a few months before he was supposed to make up for his 'shame' on a front-line deployment. He was assigned to the 23rd Grenadier Division on the Sworbe Peninsula in the Gulf of Finland , but since the fighting was over, he was assigned to the 9th Infantry Regiment in East Prussia. The Gestapo surprisingly asked him to return to Berlin immediately. During the battle for Wartenburg he was badly wounded by a grenade. The regimental adjutant, Weizsäcker, destroyed the recall order issued to Priebe, he was taken prisoner in Russia and survived. "

- Richard Weizsäcker. A German life

After his release from Soviet captivity, he was a private lecturer from 1949 to 1957 , then an adjunct professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and from 1958 until his retirement he was a private lecturer and then a full professor of agriculture at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt Main . In 1956 he founded the Institute for Rural Structural Research (IfLS) in Frankfurt and became its director. After 1961 he became director of the Agricultural Seminar . From 1972 to 1993 he was a board member of the German Federal Association of Farmers and Scientific Advisor to the Federal Government and the European Commission.

Fonts (selection)

  • The development of the size of the farms in 30 villages in the Greifswald district from the Middle Ages to the present. Dissertation, Trilisch Verlag, Würzburg-Aumühle 1936.
  • Who will fill the barns ?. Social problems in German agriculture. Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf 1954.
  • Agriculture in the world of tomorrow. Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf 1970.
  • The own potential in the development process. In: Association for Social Policy . Volume 69, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-02844-9 .
  • with Otto Matzke: Development policy without illusions. Mobilization of one's own strength. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-17-001179-0 .
  • with Reinhard Blum: Contributions to the assessment of development strategies. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-03118-0 .
  • Self-financing of development. In: Association for Social Policy. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-428-03469-4 .
  • with Winfried von Urff (Ed.): The agricultural sector in the integration process. Hermann Priebe on his 65th birthday. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1975, ISBN 3-7890-0108-2 .
  • with Hans E. Buchholz: The Agricultural Integration of Europe. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1979, ISBN 3-7890-0496-0 .
  • with Wilhelm Hankel : The agricultural sector in the development process. With examples from Africa. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-593-32693-0 .
  • with Wilhelm Scheper, Winfried von Urff: Agricultural policy in the EC. Problems and Perspectives. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1984, ISBN 3-7890-1060-X .
  • The subsidized unreason. Agriculture and the ecosystem. Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-88680-150-0 .
  • Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas. Challenges to Europe. Hermann Priebe on his 80th birthday. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1987, ISBN 3-7890-1443-5 .
  • with Karlheinz Knickel: Approaches to the realization of an environmentally friendly land use. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-631-31553-8 .

Honors

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marion Countess Dönhoff : He was a president for all citizens. In: The time . No. 27/1994.
  2. ^ Gunter Hofmann : Richard Weizsäcker. A German life . CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59809-8 , p.  81-82 .
  3. ↑ The institute. Institute for Rural Structural Research (IfLS), accessed on November 21, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Federal Gazette . Vol. 39, no. 51 , March 14, 1987, pp. 2633 .
personal data
SURNAME Priebe, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist, university professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1997
Place of death Frankfurt am Main