Joachim Hackbarth

Joachim Hackbarth (born March 11, 1906 in Neuhütten , Neustettin district , † October 1, 1977 in Neustadt am Rübenberge ) was a German plant breeder and geneticist .

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Hackbarth studied agriculture at the University of Göttingen and at the Agricultural University of Berlin and worked as a doctoral student with Erwin Baur at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research in Müncheberg (Mark) from 1930 . In 1932 he received his doctorate from the Agricultural University in Berlin with a thesis on antirrhinum (snapdragons). After completing his doctorate, he stayed in Müncheberg, initially as a research assistant, and since 1937 as head of the legumes department.

On July 31, 1939, during the preparatory period for the attack on Poland, the representative for the four-year plan Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring visited the KWI in Müncheberg with a large supply. The visit is recorded in various photos. The institute's guest book shows that in addition to State Secretary Erich Neumann , State Farmers Leader Helmut Körner , General Secretary of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society Ernst Telschow , Director of the KWI in Müncheberg Wilhelm Rudorf , Joachim Hackbarth was also invited.

In May and July 1940 Hackbarth, at that time still a lupine researcher at the KWI in Müncheberg, undertook a sightseeing and collecting trip to German-occupied Poland.

In the spring of 1941 he lectured to the Nordic Society in occupied Copenhagen: "The shortening of the ripening period by a few days or greater frost resistance can advance the cultivation of a crop by hundreds of kilometers in a few years".

"At the suggestion of the Upper President of the Province of East Prussia, with the support of the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture, the approximately 500 hectare estate Adelig Laukischken near Labiau was acquired to expand the East Prussian branch of the (Kaiser-Wilhelm) Institute (with effect from January 1941)", since the There was not enough space for the planned expansion of the East Prussian branch. "In addition, the director of the institute and a number of his employees had important tasks in the agricultural development of the occupied eastern territories." The old institute moved from Klein Blumenau near Königsberg in autumn 1941.

From 1941 to 1944 Hackbarth worked in the new branch in East Prussia (Gut Laukischken / Labiau district) of the Müncheberg Institute, as deputy head under Institute Director Walther Hertzsch (1901–1975).

In 1942 he completed his habilitation at the University of Berlin. From 1946 to 1971 he was head of the branch of the Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research in Scharnhorst near Neustadt am Rübenberge.

Hackbarth mainly dealt with the breeding of high-performance oil plants. His favorite plant was the lupine , with which he remained closely associated for a lifetime. For decades Hackbarth was considered the leading German lupine breeder. With the creation of low-alkaloid varieties (sweet lupins) , he gave lupine research based on genetic principles lasting impetus. He has published his research results in more than 80 journal articles and in some writings. Several overview articles in the multi-volume "Handbuch der Pflanzenzuchtung" are fundamental. His monograph " The Oil Plants of Central Europe " , published in 1944, was one of the best specialist books on plant cultivation for several decades . For the plant species described, Hackbarth deals in detail with the botanical and agricultural principles, all questions relating to cultivation, as well as the properties and utilization of the harvested products.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 1954, col. 765 ( online ).
2. ^ Ernst Telschow : Yearbook 1940 of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science , Leipzig 1940, p. 48.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Susanne Heim: Calories, Rubber, Careers - Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research in Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes 1933-1945 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3892446962 , p. 41/42
4. ^ Ernst Telschow : Yearbook 1941 of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science , Leipzig 1941, p. 28.
5. ^ Ernst Telschow : Yearbook 1942 of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science , Leipzig 1942, p. 32.
6. ↑ Carola Sachse (Ed.), Bernhard Strebel , Jens-Christian Wagner : Forced labor for research institutions of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. 1939 - 1945. An overview (= Research program History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism preprints ... = Research program History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the National Socialist era , Issue 11), ed. on behalf of the Presidential Commission of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science eV, Berlin: Research program "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism", 2003 (PDF file; 620 kB), p. 29 (preprints from the research program "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism")

Books and book contributions

• The sweet lupine. Breeding, cultivation and utilization of a new crop (with Bernhard Husfeld ). Publisher Paul Parey Berlin 1939.
• (Posts on lupine breeding) . In: Handbook of Plant Breeding. Edited by Th. Roemer and W. Rudorf. Publisher Paul Parey Berlin; 2nd edition ibid. Edited by H. Kappert u. W. Rudorf: Vol. 3, 1943, pp. 32-64; Vol. 4, 1944, pp. 198-206; 2nd ed. Vol. 4, 1959, pp. 1-51.
• The oil plants of Central Europe . Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart 1944 = monographs from the field of fat chemistry, vol. 15.
• Cultivation and utilization of sweet lupins (with H.-J. Troll). DLG-Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1960.
• The development of lupine breeding in Germany . In: Thirty Years of Breeding Research. In memory of Erwin Baur. Edited by W. Rudorf. Gustav Fischer Verlag Stuttgart 1959, pp. 143–149.

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1959, column 677 (list of publications).
• Joachim Hackbarth † . In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft vol. 92, 1977, p. 1124.