Jonas Schmidt (zoologist)

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Wilhelm Friedrich Jonas Schmidt known as Jonas Schmidt (born October 7, 1885 in Wiesbaden , former province of Hessen-Nassau , † March 13, 1958 in Wiesbaden) was a German agricultural scientist, animal breeder and feeding expert.

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Schmidt passed the Abitur examination in Wiesbaden in 1903, then studied agriculture and economics at the Kgl. Prussian Agricultural Academy (LA) Bonn-Poppelsdorf and the Agricultural University Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1903 he became a member of the Corps Agraria Bonn. In 1907 he passed the state examination as a qualified farmer in Poppelsdorf. As early as 1908, he received his doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn with the zootechnical topic: Relationships between body shape and performance in dairy cows . After that he held various activities in agricultural practice until 1912, as an agriculture teacher and in the Prussian State Economics College, completed his habilitation in 1913 at LA Poppelsdorf with a thesis on Central German red cattle breeding for the field of agriculture and became a private lecturer in animal breeding in Poppelsdorf. From 1914 to 1918 he participated in the First World War .

In 1919 he received an extraordinary, from 1920 full professorship for animal breeding and taxation theory at the University of Jena . In 1921 he followed an appointment as ord. Professor of Animal Breeding (and Head of the Institute for Animal Breeding and Dairy Science) and, from 1928, in succession to Franz Lehmann, also of Animal Nutrition (and Head of the Institute of Animal Nutrition) at the University of Göttingen , in 1936 as Professor of Animal Breeding and Pet Genetics at the Faculty of Agriculture Prussian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in the succession of Carl Kronacher.

Schmidt was one of the signatories of the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges in November 1933.

After the sudden death of the first director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (KWI) for animal breeding research in Dummerstorf b. Rostock, Gustav Frölich, Schmidt became managing director at the same time as his work in Berlin in 1940, from 1942 ord. Director in Dummerstorf. In addition, from 1943 on, he held the full professorship for animal breeding at the University of Rostock . In 1944 his employment at the University of Berlin ended - he was named ord. Professor appointed in Rostock.

After the end of the Second World War, Schmidt moved to southern Germany in May 1945 and took over a farm. Company in Hechingen (Württemberg). In 1946 he became director of the after Mariensee (b. Neustadt am Rübenberge , Lower Saxony) "due to the war displaced" KWI for Animal Breeding Research and from 1948 by the Max Planck Society acquired the Institute for Animal Breeding and Animal Nutrition at the sites Mariensee and Trenthorst (b. Bad Oldesloe , Schleswig-Holstein). In 1946 Schmidt followed a call to the LH Hohenheim near Stuttgart and headed as ord. Professor at the Institute for Animal Breeding until his retirement in 1953.

Schmidt's services consist primarily in the introduction and implementation of the first stationary fattening performance tests for pigs (1925 in Friedland near Göttingen), twin research in animal breeding , in cross- breeding experiments between Jersey and Black Holstein cattle (already in Dummerstorf) and the clarification of type questions. He has demonstrated great organizational skills in setting up two research institutes for animal breeding and animal nutrition. Through the publication of several textbooks and handbooks and the longstanding editorial management of the magazines "Züchtungskunde" and "Tierzüchtung und Züchtungsbiologie", he significantly enriched German animal breeding literature. Schmidt was thus the most influential animal breeding scientist in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.

Main work

  • Relationship between body shape and performance in dairy cows. Diss. To the philosopher. Faculty of the Univ. Bonn, 1908;
  • Central German red cattle breeding. Hab. Writing at the LH Poppelsdorf. Work of the German Society for Zuchtungskunde (DGfZ), issue 19;
  • Performance tests on German refined country pigs and German white noble pigs; with Hermann Vogel and Carl Zimmermann; Hanover: Schaper, 1929, work of the DGfZ, issue 47;
  • About the composition of the pig's body in fattening pigs of various weight classes. Hanover: Schaper, 1933;
  • Breeding, nutrition and keeping of farm pets, ed. by Jonas Schmidt, co-authors Frhr. Carl v. Patow and Joachim Kliesch, 1st edition 1939; 2. rework. Edition 1942; 3. rework. Edition 1943, special part 1945; 4th edition 1945; 5. rework. Edition 1950; 6. rework. 1953 edition; 7. rework. On. 1957;
  • Textbook of pig breeding: Breeding, nutrition, husbandry and diseases of the pig, with Joachim Kliesch and Victor Goerttler, 1st edition 1941; 2. rework. Edition 1945; 3. rework. 1956 edition;
  • Handbook of Agriculture - Berlin: Parey, Volume 3: Allgemeine Tierzuchtlehre, 2nd edition 1952; Volume 4 Special Animal Breeding Doctrine; 2nd edition 1953;

Awards

  • 1920–21 director of the Agricultural Institute at the University of Jena (also head of the professors' group);
  • 1936–45 Chairman of the (German) Reich Working Group on Animal Breeding;
  • 1942–45 Dean of the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Rostock;
  • 1949–51 Rector of the Hohenheim Agricultural University;
  • 1952 board member of the European Association for Animal Breeding (EVT);
  • 1950 Hermann von Nathusius Gold Medal from the German Society for Zuchtungskunde ( DGfZ );
  • 1956 Dr. agr. hc by the agricultural faculty of the University of Kiel;

literature

  • Theophil Gerber: personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine. Biographical Lexicon. NORA Verlagsgemeinschaft Dyck & Westerheide, Berlin, 3rd ext. Ed., 2008, ISBN 3-936735-67-0 , p. 695
  • Professor catalog of the University of Rostock: with additions
  • Manfred G. Raupp: Problems of the agricultural market in Germany. In the farmer's agriculture school at the University of Hohenheim . 1971
  • Harald Winkel (Ed.): Festschrift for Günther Franz . History and science in Hohenheim . Thorbecke publishing house, Sigmaringen 1982, ISBN 0-7181-2842-7
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8855 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hohenheim's directors, rectors and presidents ( memento of the original from March 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / uniarchiv.uni-hohenheim.de
  2. ↑ Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, no.4266
  3. ^ Lehmann, Franz:  Klaus-Dietrich Günther. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 78 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Otto Ambrosius Sommer:  Kronacher, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 79 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 545
  6. ^ Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Jonas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Wilhelm Friedrich Jonas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agronomist and animal breeder
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1958
Place of death Wiesbaden