Jakob Peters

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Jakob Peters (born September 15, 1873 in St. Peter-Ording , † December 18, 1944 in Garding ) was a German animal breeding director and cattle breeder.

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He studied agriculture at the Königl. Prussian Agricultural Academy Poppelsdorf b. Bonn and graduated with the exams as a qualified farmer and animal breeding manager. From 1900 he worked for the East Prussian Dutch Herdbook Society in Königsberg. After a few years as a breeding consultant, he became the managing director of this breeding association - with the title of breeding director. The organization, which was initially limited to the Königsberg administrative region, took over the Marienburger in 1928 and the Insterburger Herdbuchverein in 1934, thus developing into the largest cattle breeders' association in Europe.

With great breeding skills and organizational talent, Peters has led East Prussian breeding of the black and white lowland cattle to a high level of performance in four decades. It was his merit to transfer new scientific knowledge into breeding practice. He organized an exemplary herd bookkeeping and promoted the milk performance test as an essential prerequisite for the selection of breeding in the herd book stocks and for the improvement of the state breeding.

Peters was one of the most important breed leaders of his time. Through his numerous publications, he has increased animal breeding knowledge and provided practical cattle breeders with valuable knowledge and suggestions. For his work he received the honorary doctorate in Bonn-Poppelsdorf. agr. hc (1925) and in 1936 the Golden Hermann von Nathusius Medal of the German Society for Breeding Science.

Main work

  • The inheritance of milk yield and the utilization of the control test results. Die Landw. Tierzucht (DLT), 1913;
  • The most important East Prussian black and white cattle lines with bull register of the East Prussia. Herdbook Society. Berlin: German Society for Breeding Science, 1919;
  • Hereditary studies in the field of cattle breeding. Berlin: Verlag der DGfZ, 1920, issue 52
  • Selection of breeding, breeding goal and recruitment into East Prussian cattle breeding, 1921;
  • Bull register of the East Prussian Dutch Herdbook Society with a description of the most important East Prussian bloodlines. Königsberg, 1927–38, 6 volumes.
  • Our experience in testing cows for the German Cattle Performance Book and the breeding significance of this test. DLT, 1929;
  • The assessment of the low cattle. Berlin: Parey, 1934, DGfZ issue 32;
  • Suggestions for changing the German cattle performance book. DLT, 1934.

Awards

literature

  • Theophil Gerber: Personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine: biographical lexicon . NORA Verl., Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-936735-67-0 , Vol. 2, p. 579.
  • Previously awarded the Hermann von Nathusius Medal
  • Honorary doctorates from the Agricultural University of Bonn-Poppelsdorf from 1919 to 1934 and the Agricultural Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1934 to 2013
  • Wilfried Brade: Breeding history of the German Holstein cattle . In: Journal of Agricultural Policy and Agriculture , Vol. 91, Issue 2, 3013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Breeding history of the German Holstein cattle
  2. ↑ Honors from the German Society for Breeding Science
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Peter-Ording
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1944
Place of death Garding near Husum