Horst Dequin

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Horst Friedrich Ernst Dequin (born April 9, 1927 in Neeberg , district of Krummin ; † July 17, 2008 in Stendal ) was a German tropical farmer. He was one of the first development workers and has described and assessed his work both in technical publications and from a general point of view.

Horst Dequin, Rome 1975

Life

Dequin was born as the eldest son of the gardener and farmer Alfred Dequin and his wife Käthe geb. Lüder was born in Neeberg on the island of Usedom . From 1952 to 1955 he completed a degree in agriculture at the Technical University of Berlin , from which he graduated. In 1963 he received his doctorate at the Institute for Foreign Agriculture at the TU Berlin.

As a young soldier he took part in the last year of the Second World War and, after having to leave his homeland due to persecution, completed a horticultural apprenticeship in Hamburg and then worked as an assistant in the Robert Mayer young plant and seed growing company in Bamberg . His early interest in hydroponics brought him to Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke in 1948 , for which he and Fritz Morlang from Hamburg-Duvenstedt set up a test nursery for hydroponics and waste heat recovery on the Tiefstack power plant island . He then began to study horticulture in Weihenstephan in autumn 1949 , during which he further delved into this new cultivation method. In order to be able to finance his further studies, he interrupted his studies in 1951 to join the trial and advisory ring e. V. to work in Hamburg. In 1952 he continued his studies at the Technical University of Berlin , which he graduated with a diploma in 1955 . In 1963 he received his doctorate on the subject of agricultural aid at the Institute for Foreign Agriculture at the TU Berlin.

From October 1955 to the end of October 1959, Dequin built a test farm near Jedda in Saudi Arabia on behalf of the former finance minister Sheikh Abdullah ibn Suleiman al-Hamdan . In addition, he conducted field research in the area of Unaizah and Wādī ar Rumah (June 21, 1956 to July 23, 1956), visited the royal Al-Kharj Agricultural Project (July 23 to July 25, 1956) and accompanied Abdullah Suleiman to Abha and Jizan (January 7 to January 22, 1957). At the end of 1959 he traveled to Sudan , Ethiopia , Kenya , Tanzania , Rhodesia , Congo and Namibia .

After returning to West Germany , he joined the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (BML). On behalf of the Ministry, he traveled, accompanied by Dr. Friedrich Vinck and Dr. Wolfgang Joppich, from 6 June to 16 September 1960 in the footsteps of Carsten Niebuhr through the Kingdom of Yemen . The exploratory trip leads to the establishment of an agricultural advisory station in Taiz, which Dequin managed on the basis of a framework agreement for German-Yemeni cooperation as the project manager of West German agricultural aid from April 1961 until his expulsion on March 17, 1965, the day on which the Federal Republic of Germany ended State of Israel officially recognized diplomatically, took over.

After a stopover in Malawi , he headed a production resources project and a rural regional development project for the GAWI (now GTZ ) in Indonesia from 1968 to the end of 1970 . He then worked as an expert in the World Bank program of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome until 1987 .

In 1990 Horst Dequin received the Bickel Prize from the Weihenstephaner Ingenieure eV association in the field of horticulture

In 1954 Dequin married Gertrud Lehmann, with whom he had three children.

Fonts

  • Experimental Farm for Agriculture in Arid Areas , Itzehoe 1958
  • Agriculture of Saudi Arabia and its development opportunities , in: Zeitschrift für Ausländische Landwirtschaft, special issue No. 1, editors: Otto Schiller and Hans Wilbrandt in connection with the DLG, Frankfurt 1963 (dissertation Technical University Berlin)
  • Yemen and the agricultural development aid of the Federal Republic of Germany , in: Zeitschrift für Ausländische Landwirtschaft, DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt 1963
  • Yemen, Report on the present agricultural situation and suggestions for further development , mimeog. Dauenhof / Hamburg 1965
  • A water cult site at the Marib dam in Yemen , in: Orient, Volume No. 5, p. 164, Hamburg 1968
  • Agricultural Development in Malawi , Munich 1969
  • Faisal Settlement Project Haradh, final agricultural report and agricultural development program , 2 vols. WAKUTI (mimeographed) train 1971
  • Examination of possible follow-up measures in connection with the promotion of the oasis al Hasa, Saudisch Arabien , (mimeog.) GAWI, Frankfurt 1972
  • Masterplan of the Awash Valley Regional Development (mimeog.), Addis Ababa 1972
  • "Saudi Arabia" and "Yemen", Land Use Map and Monography , in: World Atlas of Agriculture, De Agostini, Novara 1973
  • A Basis of Operation for the Nomads of the Desert , in: Orient, Volume No. 3, Hamburg 1973
  • Irrigation in rural regional development, terminal water control and the improvement of systems in the farmers' fields - a new type of project , in: Development and Rural Areas, p. 11/13 No. 6, Bonn 1974
  • Land Resources in Indonesia , in: Geoforum, Wolfsburg 1976
  • The Challenge of Saudi Arabia , Singapore / Goetze, Hamburg 1976
  • Arab Republic of Yemen , Riyadh / Goetze, Hamburg 1976
  • Indonesia - ten years later, agriculture and industry in the regional development of a tropical island world , King Abdulaziz Research Center, Riyadh / Goetze, Hamburg 1978
  • Are there still land reserves that can be developed through settlement measures? , in: Agrarian reform in the third world, editor Elsenhans, 1979
  • Seawater desalination and hydroponics (water recycling) as a prerequisite for the cultivation of deserts , in: Measures of international technical-economic cooperation, published by H. Havemann and R. Koehler, VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1980
  • with co-author WR Blaschnek: Malawi - Ten Years of Progress and Development (3rd edition of the 1969 IFO study by Horst Dequin), Riyad 1981
  • My years in Arabia 1955-1988 , Westerhorn 1988
  • Origin and career of Hermann Balk, the first Landmeister of the Teutonic Order in Prussia , Westerhorn 1995
  • Hermann Balk, the first Prussian , Westerhorn 1995
  • Otakar, opponent and loyal to Charlemagne , Westerhorn 1996
  • The Vesegothic-Burgundian royal house of the Nibelung and the Ynglingasaga , in: Studi Medievali, 3a series, anno XXXVIII, Fasc. I, pp. 67-87, Spoleto, Giugno 1997
  • The fiefdom of the Lords of Dequede zu Badingen and Deetz in the Altmark from the end of the Middle Ages to the end of the feudal system , in: Familienforschung in Mitteldeutschland, 43 (2002), No. 3, pp. 299–321, Berlin July – September 2002
  • Deque and Dequede in Pommern and in the Uckermark , in: Archive Ostdeutscher Familienforscher (AOFF), Volume XV / 13 (2003), pp. 385–403; Ed .: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostdeutscher Familienforscher eV, Herne April 2003
  • Lehmann from the Brakupönen office in East Prussia with lineages of other East Prussian families , in: Archive Ostdeutscher Familienforscher (AOFF) Volume XVI / 13–15 (2006), pp. 389–484. Ed .: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostdeutscher Familienforscher eV, Herne July – September 2006
  • Dequin from Körlin in Western Pomerania . In: Archiv Ostdeutscher Familienforscher (AOFF), Volume XVII / 8–9 (2008), pp. 225–285. Ed .: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostdeutscher Familienforscher eV, Herne August 2008
  • Sources on the history of the Lords of Dequede on Badingen and Deetz in the Altmark , Badingen 2008

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ cf. Preface, H. Dequin, “My Years in Arabia 1955-1988”, Westerhorn 1988
  2. ↑ cf. Fritz Morlang, Flower Wholesale Market 113, Hamburg
  3. ↑ cf. also http://www.fisaonline.de/index.php?lang=dt&act=institutions&i_id=882
  4. ↑ cf. to the Institute for Foreign Agriculture, http://archiv.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/tui/96mai/agrar.htm
  5. ↑ cf. P. 3 and 4, H. Dequin, “My Years in Arabia 1955-1988”, Westerhorn 1988
  6. ↑ cf. P. 39 ff. H. Dequin, “My Years in Arabia 1955-1988”, Westerhorn 1988
  7. ↑ cf. S. 53, H. Dequin, “My Years in Arabia 1955-1988”, Westerhorn 1988
  8. ↑ cf. P. 71 ff. H. Dequin, “My Years in Arabia 1955-1988”, Westerhorn 1988
  9. ↑ cf. S. 121 ff. H. Dequin, “My Years in Arabia 1955-1988”, Westerhorn 1988
  10. ↑ cf. P. 145 ff. H. Dequin, “My Years in Arabia 1955-1988”, Westerhorn 1988
  11. ↑ cf. S. 217 ff. H. Dequin, “My Years in Arabia 1955-1988”, Westerhorn 1988
  12. ↑ cf. "Malawi - Ten Years of Progress and Development", H. Dequin and W. Blaschnek, IFO study, 1969
  13. ↑ cf. P. 267, H. Dequin, “My Years in Arabia 1955-1988”, Westerhorn 1988
personal data
SURNAME Dequin, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dequin, Horst FE; Dikīn, Hūrst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural economist and development worker
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Neeberg
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 2008
Place of death Stendal