Johan Eichfeld

Johan Hansowitsch Eichfeld ( Russian Иоган Гансович Эйхфельд ; born January 13 ^{. Jul} / 25. January  1893 ^greg. In White Stone ; † 20th April 1989 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian - Soviet agronomists and plant breeders .

Life

Eichfeld studied at the Petrograd Agricultural Institute with a degree in 1920. In 1923 he became an assistant at the All-Russian Institute for Applied Botany . He began his scientific work under the direction of Nikolai Ivanovich Vawilows . In 1924 he went north and organized and directed the agricultural experimental station Chibiny near Apatity on the Chibinen . In 1930, after the reorganization of the experimental station, he became director of the polar department and then also of the polar experimental station of the new Leningrad All-Russian Institute for Agriculture (WIR). In 1935 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences (WASChNIL). He was a supporter of Trofim Denisovich Lyssenko . In 1940 he became director of WIR (until 1951). Eichfeld's main focus was on promoting agriculture in the region north of the Arctic Circle . This included the improvement of the soil and the improvement of agricultural technology . He became the author of some early maturing varieties of stock cultures for the north. He was a doctor of agricultural science .

In 1946 Eichfeld became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (AN-ESSR). In 1950 he succeeded Hans Kruus as President of the AN-ESSR and remained so until 1968 when Arnold Veimer succeeded him. In 1953 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .

1958-1961 Eichfeld was Vice-Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (ESSR) as successor to August Jacobson . He was followed by Aleksei Müürisepp after. In 1961 Eichfeld became a member of the CPSU . He was a member of the XXII. Party Congress of the CPSU in 1961 and member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1954–1970). In 1964 he became Vice President of WASChNIL.

Honors, prizes

• Order of Lenin (1935, 1949, 1950, 1954, 1958, 1963)
• Stalin Prize 1st Class (1942) for work on the theory and practice of agriculture in the northern region of the USSR
• Medal "For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1945, 1953)
• Hero of Socialist Labor (1963)
• Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union (1965, 1975)
• Anniversary medal "In memory of the 100th birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
• Order of the October Revolution (1973)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (1983)

Web links

• Literature by and about Johan Eichfeld in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Landeshelden: Эйхфельд Иоган Гансович (accessed on February 27, 2019).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Центральная научная сельскохозяйственная библиотека: ЭЙХФЕЛЬД Иоган Гансович (accessed February 28, 2019).
3. ↑ Russian Academy of Sciences: Эйхфельд Иоганн Гансович (accessed February 27, 2019).