Hermann Weigmann

Hermann Weigmann (born January 17, 1856 in Fürth , † February 19, 1950 in Kappeln an der Schlei ) was a German bacteriologist , brewing and milk scientist. As head of the “Research Station and Training Institute for Dairy Production” in Kiel, he founded modern milk bacteriology in Germany from 1889. Weigmann became the main sponsor of Benno Martiny's (1871–1953) idea to set up a dairy research institute. As a result of his efforts, the research institute was established in Kiel in 1922, the place of his own life's work.

Another family

The name Weigmann is first mentioned in Fürth in 1689. The “Zum Goldenen Schwan” inn was owned by the family from the second half of the 18th century (until 1880). Besides Herrmann Weigmann there were other well-known family descendants:

• Otto Weigmann (1873–1940), son of the Commerce Councilor Georg Andreas Weigmann in Lauf. He was an art historian and became director of the graphic collection in Munich.
• Wilhelm Weigmann (1875–1938), son of the innkeeper of "Zum Goldenen Schwan", Fritz Weigmann. He was head of the highest building authority in Bavaria and professor at the Technical University in Munich.

Life

Hermann Weigmann was born as the son of the pewter caster Johann Andreas Weigmann in the house "Zum Goldenen Schwan" at Marktplatz 2 in Fürth and attended the Latin school in Nuremberg . Even in his youth, Hermann Weigmann showed great interest in natural sciences, especially chemistry. In 1875 he passed the Abitur at the Royal Bavarian Realgymnasium in Nuremberg. He then did military service in the Bavarian Jäger Battalion in Erlangen.

Following his military service, Weigmann studied physiological chemistry in Erlangen as a pupil of Eugen Franz Gorup von Besánez (1817–1878), then in Munich as a pupil of Emil Erlenmeyer (1825–1909) natural sciences. In 1879 he passed the examination for the higher teaching post and received his doctorate in Erlangen in 1882. phil. with a thesis on "The production and investigation of derivatives of opianic acid". During his studies in Erlangen, he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in 1879 .

After completing his studies, Hermann Weigmann moved to Rostock for a short time until the founder of food chemistry, Joseph König (1843–1930), appointed him to Münster in Westphalia. In 1888 Hermann Weigmann went to Hans Vogel (1852–1939) in Memmingen, where he had set up a private technical-chemical laboratory for brewing and dairy farming.

In 1889 Weigmann came together with Wilhelm Fleischmann (1837–1920) and then went to the experimental station for dairy in Kiel, where a new bacteriological department was set up. He traveled to the United States and studied the corresponding facilities at the agricultural test stations and universities and evaluated his observations fruitfully for the home country.

In 1922, after years of effort, Weigmann succeeded in founding the Institute for Bacteriology at the Prussian Research Institute for Dairy Farming in Kiel. Due to his advanced age, he was only able to run the facility for one year. His successor was Wilhelm Hermann Henneberg .

Scientific work

Hermann Weigmann is also one of the outstanding milk scientists Wilhelm Fleischmann and Benno Martiny. No one can be thought of without the other two. Everyone has achieved something immortal in their own area of ​​work, Weigmann in the bacteriology of milk and dairy products by introducing pure cultures, for which Emil Christian Hansen (1842–1909) had provided the model in the brewery. Particularly noteworthy are "Die Pilzkunde der Milch" 1911 and 1924, "Lehrbuch der Milchwirtschaft" by Wilhelm Fleischmann, which Hermann Weigmann completely revised in its 7th edition, and Wilhelm Eugling's "Handbook of Practical Cheese Dairy", which was published in 3. and 4th edition has been published by him.

Honors

The Vienna Society for Microbiology appointed Professor Dr. phil. et. agr. hc Hermann Weigmann for his services to microbiology in 1933 as a corresponding member.

• Memorial plaque on the house where he was born, the “Goldener Schwan” inn in Fürth.
• Hermann-Weigmann-Strasse in Kiel (Federal Institute for Dairy Research | MRI - Max Rubner Institute Kiel)
• In memory of Dr. Hermann Weigmann is awarded the Hermann Weigmann Medal to deserving scientists.

Publications (selection)

• The manufacture and investigation of derivatives of opianic acid . Dissertation, University of Erlangen, 1882
• The pasteurization of market milk. A new device for pasteurizing large quantities during operation . Hildesheim: Molkerei-Zeitung, 1915, 12 p. (From: Molkerei-Zeitung. Jg. 1915. No. 71 and 72)
• The activities of the experimental station and dairy training institute in Kiel: Department of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Schleswig-Holstein since the bacteriological department was founded in 1889. A 25-year-long report . [sl]: [sn], 1916, 150 pp.
• The mushroom science of milk. A presentation of the fermentation phenomena in milk and the fermentation technology of the dairy industry . 2., completely reworked. Edition of the mycology of milk. Berlin: P. Parey, 1924, VIII, 379 pp.
• Wilhelm Fleischmann: Textbook of the dairy industry 7th completely revised. Edition, ed. by Hermann Weigmann. Berlin: P. Parey, [1929] -1932, XI, 966 pp.
• Practical cheese-making manual . 4., completely reworked. Edition of Wilhelm Eugling's "Handbuch der Käserei". Berlin: Parey, 1933, VIII, 422 pp.
• Karl Nagalhard: Men around Martiny. With a historical introduction to "The dairy industry in its development as an applied science" by Hermann Weigmann. Ed .: Prussian experimental and research institute for dairy farming in Kiel. Hildesheim: Molkerei-Zeitung, 1936, 124 signed sheet. (Hermann Weigmann was considered the nestor of the German dairy industry. Benno Martiny was Weigmann's great role model, "whose idea he took up after founding a bishopric for the dairy industry and carried it through to success Beyond that, however, Martiny was the most outstanding figure in the dairy industry at the turn of the 19th century. ”(Foreword) Contains 124 short biographies of important milk scientists and portrait drawings by G. Zimmermann)
• Benno Martiny, the man, his striving and his work. In memory of his 100th birthday on September 23, 1936 . Hildesheim: Molkerei-Zeitung, 1936, 78 pp.

literature

• Hermann Weigmann * January 17, 1856 . In: Karl Nagalhard: Men around Martiny . Molkerei-Zeitung, Hildesheim 1936
• Weigmann, Hermann, pioneering milk bacteriologist . In: Adolf Schwammberger: Fürth from A to Z. A history dictionary . Self-published by the city of Fürth, Fürth 1968, p. 387
• Bernd Noack: The professor and the milk . In: Fürther Nachrichten of August 26, 2014.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Weigmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hermann Weigmann in the FürthWiki

Remarks

1. ↑ Well-known Fürth people . In: Statistisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Fürth 2007, p. 20.
2. ^ Benno Martiny. Retrieved October 29, 2017 . 
3. ^ Adolf Schwammberger, Fürth from A - Z, Fürth 1967, p. 387
4. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 217.
5. ↑ "In 1885, a dairy research station was opened by Dr. Hans Vogel in Memmingen, which very soon began to carry out research in the field of breweries. This experimental station was opened in 1892 after Dr. Vogel moved to the position of professor in Weihenstephan and has been preserved in its original form as a brewing testing and research institute to this day. With this institute, Weihenstephan has become significantly more important as a mediator between scientific work and practice. […] In 1901 Prof. Vogel became director of the Weihenstephan Academy. He completed the final separation of agriculture and brewery. From 1902 to 1906 a new test brewery with an associated internship laboratory was built. This facility still exists today in the old premises, although a completely new building for 2002 is in the final planning phase. The chair for technology of the brewery I emerged from the laboratory. “ In: M. Zarnkow, Werner Back: Weihenstephan - the navel of brewing. Teaching and research in Weihenstephan . In: Chair for Technology in Brewery I, Technical University of Munich, Freising
6. ^ Hermann Weigmann * January 17, 1856. In: Karl Nagalhard: Men around Martiny . Hildesheim: Molkerei-Zeitung, 1936, In: Milch & Kultur Rheinland und Westfalen e. V. - on the Internet ( Memento of the original dated August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Klinische Wochenschrift 12th vol., No. 3 of January 21, 1933, p. 128