Hugo Thiel

Hugo Thiel (1907)

Bust of Thiel

So-called "Thiels Burg" in the Avelsbach wine-growing domain in Trier

Hugo Thiel (born June 2, 1839 in Bonn , † January 13, 1918 in Berlin ) was Ministerial Director in the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests and, together with Wilhelm Rimpau , played a key role in the development of German seed breeding.

He was chairman of the royal commission for the division of the Dahlem domain and in this role played a key role in the conversion of the agricultural property into a villa colony (since 1901) and the use of the south-eastern Dahlem area as a science location (around 1910).

Life

Thiel studied agricultural science in Poppelsdorf (then a suburb of Bonn) and received his doctorate in 1865. phil. In 1866 he taught as a private lecturer in Poppelsdorf. From 1869 to 1872 Thiel was a full professor of agricultural science in Darmstadt and from 1872 to 1873 in Munich. From 1873 to 1885 he was general secretary in the Prussian State Economics College. In 1879 Thiel joined the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture as a secret councilor . Most recently he was Real Privy Councilor and Ministerial Director there. In 1880 and 1881 he played a key role in the preparations for the conversion of the agricultural teaching institute and museum into the Agricultural University in Berlin, and from 1880 to 1910 on the board of trustees of the university.

Thiel and Rimpau were in close scientific and private contact for 40 years.

He was a member of the Frankfurt-Leipzig fraternity Arminia .

Thiel was from 1874 to 1877 a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Magdeburg 2 administrative district . There he belonged to the National Liberals. At the same time, as a national liberal for the same constituency, he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1873 to 1878. From 1901 to 1911 he was chairman of the commission for the division of the Dahlem domain and in this function played an essential role in shaping Berlin-Dahlem .

Honors

A bust of Thiel is in the foyer of the Agricultural and Horticultural Faculty of the Humboldt University on Invalidenstrasse in Berlin-Mitte . Thielallee, Thielpark and the Thielplatz underground station in Berlin-Dahlem , renamed Freie Universität Berlin (Thielplatz) since December 2016 , are named after him, as is Thielstraße in Bonn .

The likeness of Hugo Thiel was also attached to the domain castle in the form of a cast relief at the Avelsbach wine-growing domain near Trier .

Works

Albrecht Thaer's principles of rational agriculture. New edition, edited and annotated by Guido Krafft, Curt Lehmann, Albrecht Conrad Thaer and Hugo Thiel. Berlin 1880

literature

Peter Lietz : Max Delbrück, Hugo Thiel and Maximilian Maercker - their importance for the development of the fermentation industry. In: GGB yearbook 2013, Berlin 2013
Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 162 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
Joachim Hansen: Thiels Burg - monument of the Prussian commitment to viticulture in Trier in "New Trierisches Jahrbuch 2000", Verein Trierisch im Selbstverlag, 2000, p. 103, ISSN 0077-7765

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Volker Klemm: From the Royal Academy of Agriculture in Möglin to the Agricultural and Horticultural Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Berlin 1998, p. 161.
↑ Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State for the years 1880 to 1910
^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 385 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)

Web links

Commons : Hugo Thiel - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Hugo Thiel in the database of members of the Reichstag

personal data
SURNAME	Thiel, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	June 2, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bonn
DATE OF DEATH	January 13, 1918
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Cf. Volker Klemm: From the Royal Academy of Agriculture in Möglin to the Agricultural and Horticultural Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Berlin 1998, p. 161.

[2] Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State for the years 1880 to 1910

[3] Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 385 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)