Horst Krausslich

Horst Kräusslich (born August 2, 1926 in Fürth am Berg , Upper Franconia ; † April 16, 2010 ibid) was a German animal breeding scientist and university professor.

Life

Krausslich attended elementary school in his place of birth and passed the Abitur examination in Coburg. After military service and brief imprisonment, he finished his agricultural apprenticeship with the assistant examination and studied agriculture at the Technical University of Munich in Weihenstephan from 1948 to 1951 with the examination as a qualified farmer . This was followed by a legal traineeship and in 1954 the second state examination for the higher agricultural and animal breeding service in Bavaria. He then worked for the Animal Breeding Office in Passau for five years . He did his doctorate in 1956 at the Technical University of Munich with a topic on merino sheep breeding for a doctorate in agricultural sciences .

From 1959 on, Kräusslich was employed in the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests (StMELF), initially as an employee and from 1962 to 1964 as a consultant for pig breeding and managing director of the Bavarian Pig Breeders Association and the Pig Health Service. During this time, the beginning of the breeding of the refined country pig to the modern country breed and the construction of the pig test rings in Bavaria. From 1964 to 1970, Kräusslich was a consultant for cattle breeding, at the same time managing director of the regional association of Bavarian cattle breeders and the working groups (AG) of the insemination stations and high cattle.

In between there were study trips to Great Britain with Alan Robertson in Edinburgh on the status of population genetics and quantitative genetics and in Ithaca (NY, USA) on questions of modern insemination breeding programs . The results were the development of the breeding value estimation for milk production traits according to the CC method (contemporary comparison: comparison of stable companions of the same age) and in 1967 a nationwide insemination breeding program for Bavaria and Germany. Developed in the AG Höhenvieh Kräußlich without significant interbreeding, the Simmental cattle for dual-purpose breed in the directions as a combined dairy and beef cattle and as pure beef cattle.

In 1970, Kräusslich was appointed professor for animal breeding at the veterinary faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU) and head of the institute for animal breeding, heredity and constitution research, which became the institute for animal breeding and animal breeding from 1974 with the institutes for animal hygiene and domestic animal genetics Animal hygiene united. The previous animal breeding chair was now the chair for animal breeding, animal husbandry and animal feeding, including agriculture. Krausslich was also head of the teaching and research facilities of the faculty in Oberschleißheim b. Munich. His main focus now was on breeding for health and fertility as genetic selection characteristics and the inheritance of the immune reaction. In 1974, Kräusslich was a founding member of the Embryo Transfer Working Group of German-speaking countries . This was followed by the breeding and economic integration as well as the bloodless implementation of the embryo transfer in cattle and finally the first successful implementation of a gene transfer .

After his retirement in 1991, Kräusslich dealt with the goal of breeding cattle in pure breeding and crossbreeding, the importance of polled cattle in Simmental and necessary changes in the structure of specialist organizations. He was involved in 200 publications in scientific and other specialist journals as well as in eight book chapters. His standard work on cattle breeding should be emphasized. He supervised over 100 doctoral students and 6 post-doctoral students.

Honorary positions

• 1977–79 Dean of the Veterinary Faculty of the LMU Munich
• 1970–76 chairman of the working group (AG) insemination stations in Bavaria
• 1970–76 Chairman of the Insemination Working Group of the Association of German Cattle Breeders (ADR)
• 1979–85 Chairman of the Society for Animal Science (GfT)
• 1979–85 Vice President of the German Society for Breeding Science (DGfZ)
• 6 years member of the board of the European Association for Animal Breeding ( EAAP )
• 3 years vice-president of the EVT
• 1973–95 Chairman of the Dr. Dr. hc Karl Eibl Foundation in Neustadt / Aisch

Appreciation

Through his work in the animal breeding administration and in various committees, Kräusslich has worked on new areas and implemented them in practice for Bavaria. From this experience and further studies, he was able to introduce veterinary students even better to zootechnical theory and practice in the 20 years as a university lecturer and to explain the problems of agriculture to future veterinarians. During this time he significantly influenced the transition to applied population genetics and modern biotechnology for both professional groups in Germany and for this reason rightly received the Hermann von Nathusius Medal of the DGfZ .

Publications (selection)

• Hereditary value determinations in wool and body properties on 31 pedigrees of the Bavarian Merino land sheep. Dissertation at the Technical University of Munich, Faculty of Agriculture, 1956
• Pig test rings in Bavaria, 1964
• Cattle breeding, 6th, completely revised. u. exp. (5th edition under the title Rinderzucht by Wilhelm Zorn ), Stuttgart: Ulmer, 1981, 562 pp.
• Genetic engineering in animal breeding. With Gottfried Brem, Martin Förster and Erhard Ratz, Munich 1991
• Progress in animal breeding (commemorative publication from the symposium in honor of Prof. Kräusslich on October 4, 1991), Lehr- und Versuchsgut Oberschleißheim, ed. Gottfried Brem; Stuttgart: Ulmer, 648 pp.
• Experimental genetics in animal breeding: Basics for special processes in biotechnology. With Gottfried Brem and Gerald Stranzinger, Stuttgart: Ulmer, 1991
• Animal breeding. 4. completely rework. Ed., Ed. Horst Kräußlich, Stuttgart: Ulmer, 1994, 464 pp.
• Animal breeding and general agriculture for veterinarians. With Gottfried Brem. Stuttgart: Enke, 1997, 596 pp.

Awards

• 1975 Max Eyth medal of the DLG in silver
• 1987 Badge of Honor from the Bavarian Veterinary Association
• Golden Richard Götze commemorative medal of the ADR
• "Distinguished Service Award" from EVT
• Honorary doctor Dr. agr. hc der Agr. Univ. Gödöllo, Hungary
• Honorary doctor Dr. med. vet. hc of the veterinary faculty of the LMU Munich
• 1991 Hermann von Nathusius Medal of the DGfZ
• Prof. Dürrwaechter Prize of the Landesverb. Bavarian cattle breeder

literature

• Diedrich Schröder : Hermann von Nathusius Medal for Prof. Dr. agr. Dr. agr. hc Dr. med. vet. hc Horst Krausslich. In: Zkd, 63, No. 6, pp. 413-415, 1991
• Gottfried Averdunk : Obituary for Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Horst Krausslich. In: Zkde, 82, Heft 4, pp. 261–263, 2010
• Theophil Gerber: personalities in agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine. NORA Berlin, 4th ext. Ed., 2014, p. 398
• Biographical databases of Vet.med. Faculty of the Free University of Berlin
• J. Peters and Veronika Weidenhöfer (Goebel): History of the Veterinary Faculty Munich, Table: The institutes or clinics and their boards from 1945

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Kräusslich in the catalog of the German National Library
• History of the Animal Health Faculty at the University of Munich
• Website of the German Society for Breeding Science (DGfZ)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The institutes or clinics and their boards of directors from 1945
2. ↑ Gödöllö Agricultural University, Hungary
3. ^ Previous holders of the Hermann von Nathusius Medal of the DGfZ
4. ↑ Biographical database for Horst Kräusslich in the Free University of Berlin ( Memento of the original from March 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.