Johannes Reinhold

The title of this article is ambiguous. For other people with a similar name, see Johann Reinhold .

Johannes Reinhold (born June 15, 1897 in Sopot near Danzig ; † August 22, 1971 in Kleinmachnow near Berlin ) was a German vegetable growing scientist .

Life

Reinhold, son of a book printer, completed a horticultural apprenticeship and attended the Horticultural College in Berlin-Dahlem from 1919 to 1922 . At the same time he studied from 1921 to 1924 at the Agricultural University in Berlin . In 1925 he took over the management of the newly created test fields Großbeeren of the Dahlem teaching and research institute for horticulture. In 1928 he received his doctorate from the business economist Emil Lang (agricultural scientist) at the Albertus University in Königsberg with a thesis on the valuation of fruit trees.

In 1930 Reinhold received a teaching position for the subjects of horticultural management and vegetable growing at the Agricultural University in Berlin , where he qualified as a professor in 1932 with a business thesis . In the same year he was appointed to the teaching and research institute for horticulture (LuFA Berlin) in Berlin-Dahlem while maintaining the management of the Großbeeren test fields . In 1937 he followed a call as director of the experimental and research institute for horticulture (Dresden) in Pillnitz near Dresden. Reinhold joined the NSDAP in 1941 and worked on the research council of the Reichsnährstand .

In 1946 Reinhold joined the SED . From 1946 to 1950 Reinhold worked again at the research facility in Pillnitz as head of the vegetable growing department. In 1950 he was appointed professor of vegetable growing at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1950 to 1964 he was director of the institute for vegetable growing in Großbeeren. At the same time, he took over the management of the Institute for Horticulture in Großbeeren of the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin (DAL), of which he had been a member since 1952, later renamed the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR (AdL). Under his aegis, the Großbeeren research facility developed into an internationally important center for vegetable growing science. Reinhold worked in the Research Council of the GDR and in the Agricultural Commission of the Politburo of the SED.

Teaching and Research

In the first years of his scientific activity, Reinhold mainly dealt with business management issues, as the topics of his dissertation and his habilitation thesis show. He made a name for himself as a horticultural economist with his textbook Introduction to Horticultural Management , published in 1933 . After 1933, however, vegetable growing became his central research area. He worked u. a. about questions of experimental methodology, plant nutrition and fertilization, the use of compost in vegetable growing, about the cultivation methods of individual types of vegetables in the open air and under glass, about the storage, processing and quality of vegetables as well as about the use of modern technology in vegetable growing.

The bibliography of Reinhold's publications includes over 500 titles, including numerous books and writings. He has edited several books together with other authors. In many publications he describes in great detail questions relating to test methodology. One of his most important scientific treatises is the article published in the Albrecht Thaer Archive in 1956, The Development of Taste Testing into a Quantitative Organoleptic Method, illustrated using the example of vegetables - a groundbreaking work on quality testing of vegetables.

Reinhold is one of the initiators of the horticultural university course in Germany. Even as a doctoral student, he was interested in questions relating to the academic training of gardeners and in 1928, before completing his doctorate, wrote a paper on horticultural training in Prussia . Even in later years he did a lot to ensure that horticultural sciences were given an appropriate place in the range of subjects at universities.

In 1953 Reinhold was co-founder and until 1965 editor-in-chief of the leading horticultural journal in the GDR, the Horticultural Archive .

Honors

• Honorary doctorate from the ( East Berlin ) Humboldt University
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1959)
• National Prize for Science and Technology (1961)

Publications (selection)

• Appreciation of the fruit trees . Diss. Phil. Königsberg 1928. Zugl. in: Die Gartenbauwissenschaft Vol. 1, 1928, pp. 177-278.
• The horticultural training system in Prussia . Paul Parey publishing house in Berlin 1928.
• The horticultural settlement in Germany with special consideration of vegetable and fruit growing . Habil. Schr. Agricultural University Berlin 1932. Zugl. in: Reports on Agriculture NF Special Issue 72.
• Introduction to horticultural management . Paul Parey publishing house in Berlin 1933.
• Forcing cucumbers in greenhouses . Verlag Eugen Ulmer Stuttgart 1935 = Fundamentals and progress in horticulture and viticulture H. 12.
• The tomato forcing . Verlag Eugen Ulmer Stuttgart 1938 = Basics and progress in gardening and viticulture, issue 47/48.
• Vegetable growing in the ornamental plant nursery . Dresdener Verlags-Gesellschaft Dresden 1950 = Progressive Horticulture Vol. 2.
• Vegetable growing as catch crops in the peasant economy . Dresdener Verlags-Gesellschaft Dresden 1950 = Progressive Horticulture Vol. 3.
• The garden as it should be. Handbook of allotment gardening . Deutscher Bauernverlag (German Agricultural Publishing House) Berlin 1950; 2nd edition 1952; 3rd edition 1954; 4th edition 1955; 5th edition 1956; 6th edition 1957; 7th edition 1958.
• The development of taste testing into a quantitative organoleptic method illustrated using the example of vegetables . In: Albrecht-Thaer-Archiv vol. 1, 1956, pp. 112–167.

literature

• Martin Schmidt: For the Silver Doctor jubilee of Prof. Dr. Johannes Reinhold . In: Archive for Horticulture Vol. 1, 1953, pp. 380–383
• Th. Geissler: Johannes Reinhold, life and work . In: Archiv für Gartenbau Vol. 10, 1962, pp. 170–177 (with a list of the most important publications)
• G. Vogel and Th. Geissler: In memoriam Johannes Reinhold . In: Archiv für Gartenbau Vol. 20, 1972, pp. 171–173 (with picture)
• Siegfried Kuntsche:  Reinhold, Johannes . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Olaf Kappelt: Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR Berlin historica, 2009, p. 484, ISBN 978-3-939929-12-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neue Zeit of March 4, 1952, p. 4: “The German Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin appointed six new members. These are National Prize Winner Prof. Fritz Oberdorf , National Prize Winner Dipl.-Farmer Franz Vettel , Forest Master Ernst Ehwald , Prof. Hermann Meusel , Prof. Dr. Friedrich Müssemeier and Prof. Dr. Johannes Reinhold "