Immanuel Dornfeld

Immanuel Dornfeld

Immanuel August Ludwig Dornfeld (born May 15, 1796 in Neckarweihingen , today Ludwigsburg , † December 29, 1869 in Weinsberg ) was a German administrative officer in 18 cities and communities in Württemberg. He was a wine grower and is considered the spiritual father and main initiator of the viticulture school in Weinsberg.

Life

Immanuel Dornfeld was born in Neckarweihingen in 1796 as the son of a village pastor . After attending the Latin School in Ludwigsburg and an apprenticeship as a clerk in Gaildorf , he embarked on an administrative career. From 1812 to 1869 he worked in various functions, such as clerk and camera administrator, in 18 cities and municipalities in Württemberg in different authorities. He was a member of the Society for Wine Improvement Württemberg and from 1850 camera administrator for the Oberamt Weinsberg . Dornfeld acquired knowledge of viticulture as an autodidact. His long-term commitment to establishing a viticulture school is considered to be his merit. As early as 1849, he submitted detailed proposals for this. This viticulture school was after approval on December 9, 1863 by King Wilhelm I and a construction period of about two years in Weinsberg on 22/23. Opened February 1868. He died in Weinsberg in 1869 and was buried there. Dornfeld wrote the first comprehensive history of viticulture in Swabia. A new breed from Weinsberg, the Dornfelder , was named in his honor.

Awards

Dornfeld's gravestone

• 1859 Knight's Cross of the Order of Frederick a . a. to support agriculture, viticulture and wine culture

Works

• Viticulture school, or instructions for planting the vine and making the wine. Stuttgart 1859, Heilbronn 1860
• The rational viticulture and the winemaking doctrine . Heilbronn 1864
• The history of viticulture in Swabia. Cohen & Risch, Stuttgart 1868
• The wine and fruit producers in Germany . Stuttgart and Tübingen 1868

literature

• Carlheinz Gräter : Württemberg wine. Landscape, history, culture. DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 1993, ISBN 3-87181-270-6 .
• Richard Hachenberger: Immanuel August Ludwig Dornfeld - godfather of the new red wine variety Dornfelder. In: German Viticulture Yearbook. 49, 1998, ISSN  0343-3714 , pp. 261-268.
• Richard Hachenberger: Immanuel Dornfeld (1796-1869). Father of the Weinberg School of Viticulture. In: Moments. Contributions to regional studies of Baden-Württemberg . Issue 4, 2004, ISSN  1619-1609 , p. 31.

Web links

• Literature by and about Immanuel Dornfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography of Immanuel Dornfeld at the Society for the History of Wine