Hermann Vogel (agricultural scientist)

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Hermann Leonhard Max Vogel (born November 25, 1895 in Munich ; † January 10, 1974 there ) was a German professor of animal breeding .

family

Hermann Vogel was the son from the marriage of the Munich veterinarian and professor Leonhard Vogel . Hermann Vogel was married to Caroline Vogel, née Brinz (1895–1978), who came from the family of Johann Baptist von Zenetti . The two sons, the SPD politician Hans-Jochen and the CDU politician Bernhard Vogel, come from the marriage .

Life

Hermann Vogel took part in the First World War as a war volunteer , most recently as a first lieutenant . After the end of the war he was active in the Epp Freikorps and in the Bavarian Schutzbrigade 21 and participated a. a. on the fall of the Munich Soviet Republic . He then studied agriculture in Munich until 1922. In 1926 he received his doctorate from the TH Munich .

The graduate farmer was an assistant at the University of Göttingen from 1924 to 1934 . His focus was on animal breeding and dairy farming . After his habilitation (1930) he taught as a private lecturer in Göttingen. First he was a substitute professor from 1934 and from 1935 to 1945 full professor and director of the Institute for Animal Breeding and Dairy Farming at the University of Giessen .

Vogel joined the NSDAP at the beginning of May 1932 ( membership number 1.095.244) and, after the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933/34, became the leader of the teaching staff at the University of Göttingen. From autumn 1933 he was also a member of the SS . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . From November 1933 he worked at the Race and Settlement Main Office as a main training manager. In 1934 he was appointed SS-Unterscharführer . In 1937 Vogel was released from the SS at his own request. The SS attested him "insufficient ideological clarity". He was Gaufführer of the Reichsbund Deutscher Diplom-Bauern in the Gau Süd-Hannover Braunschweig and chaired the Agricultural Association of Hanover. He was also a provisional local group leader of the NSDAP.

After the end of the Second World War he was released from his professorship and was interned for 20 months. After a trial chamber procedure , he was denazified first as a follower and then as exonerated . From 1948 to 1956 he was a clerk at the Bavarian State Institute for Animal Breeding in Grub. Although he was classified as a so-called 131er , he could not return to university service.

Grave of Hermann Vogel and his wife Caroline, Bogenhausener Friedhof, Munich.

He died on January 10, 1974 and was buried in the Bogenhausen cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

  • Performance tests on German refined country pigs and German white noble pigs (from the Institute for Animal Breeding and Dairy Production at the University of Göttingen), M. & H. Schaper, Hanover 1929 (together with Carl Zimmermann and Jonas Schmidt). In: Work of the German Society for Breeding Science; H. 47
  • The breeding methods in agricultural animal breeding , Lutzeyer, Bad Oeynhausen 1948
  • Concept of race and questions of race in agricultural animal breeding , Lutzeyer, Bad Oeynhausen 1949
  • Agricultural animal breeding , de Gruyter, Berlin 1952
  • Zootécnia general , México [etc.]: Unión Tipográfica Editorial Hispano Americana, 1963

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 178.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 642
  3. ↑ a b c Brief portrait of Bruno W. Reimann in the Gießener Zeitung (online), November 27, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogel, Hermann Leonhard Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1974
Place of death Munich