Hugo Grahl (agricultural scientist)

Hugo Grahl (born April 18, 1834 in Königsberg , † November 29, 1905 in Dresden ) was a German agricultural scientist .

Life

Grave of Hugo Grahl in the Trinitatisfriedhof

As the son of the painter August Grahl , he studied natural sciences, especially agricultural chemistry, at the Georg August University from 1856 to 1858 . In 1858 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . In 1865 Grahl married Anna Kummer (1844–1925), the daughter of the painter Carl Robert Kummer .

He learned the practice of agriculture on various estates. In 1859 he bought south of Dresden in the town of Kreischa in District Saxon Switzerland-Osterzgebirge the manor Zscheckwitz of 79 ha and worked as a farmer. The manor house, with its main facade facing the courtyard, had a high roof and tower, and was surrounded by stables and utility rooms. Outside the courtyard, a large vegetable and flower garden ran down the mountain and the area was surrounded by meadows, fields and orchards. The rural baroque castle dates from 1704 and was destroyed by fire in 1992. In 1874 he sold this property again and continued his interrupted studies. Grahl received his doctorate in 1875 at the Political Science Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität with a dissertation on the Bavarian property tax for Dr. rer. pole. A year later he qualified as a professor at the Agricultural Academy in Proskau , where he gave lectures on crop production and agricultural management. After the dissolution of this academy, he and part of the teaching staff moved to Berlin in 1881 and until 1889 taught as a lecturer or honorary professor for arable and crop production at the Agricultural University in Berlin .

Grahl founded the association for the promotion of the moor culture in the German Empire in 1883 . As its managing director, he played a key role in the development of the association until 1898. From 1900 he lived in Dresden, where he died in 1905. His grave is in the Trinity cemetery .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 45 , 167
2. ^ Zscheckwitz, manor as a single farm
3. ^ Zscheckwitz, former manor , on SLUB, Deutsche Fotothek

literature

• The founder of our association Professor Dr. Hugo Grahl . In: Communications from the Association for the Promotion of Moor Culture in the German Empire, vol. 23, 1905, pp. 381–382.
• Wolfgang Böhm: Biographical manual on the history of crop production . Munich 1997, pp. 89–90 (with bibliographical references to his most important publications).