Karl Bär (agronomist)
Karl Bär (born August 6, 1901 in Weimar , † January 1, 1946 in Soviet captivity ) was a German grassland scientist .
Life
Karl Bär, son of a high school supervisor, studied agriculture in Berlin and Göttingen from 1922 and received his doctorate in 1928 under Otto Tornau with a thesis on meadow grasses . He then worked for several years in seed farms and in institutes for grassland management . In 1934 he got a job as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Crop Production at the University of Göttingen . In 1938 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen with a study on the growth of fodder plants and received the Venia legendi for "Arable and plant cultivation and wasteland culture".
In 1939 he was appointed professor and director of the Institute for Grassland Management at the Prussian Agricultural Experimental and Research Institute in Landsberg / Warthe . His main research interests were forage production , the improvement of grassland areas and wasteland culture. Agricultural practice owes him many suggestions. From 1937 to 1939 Bär published the magazine “Futterbau und Gärfutterpreparation”.
literature
- Professor Dr. Karl Bear † . In: New Communications for Agriculture Vol. 4, 1949, p. 84.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Bär in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bear, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German agricultural scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1946 |
| Place of death | Soviet captivity |