Karl Borde

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Karl Borde (born January 23, 1929 in Roche , Czechoslovakia; † April 6, 2020 in Potsdam ) is a German agricultural consultant and specialist book author and is considered one of the pioneers of hop growing in the GDR . As the lead author , he published a standard work on hops in the GDR in 1989. Together with other German Bohemian hops farmers from their homes reported had been, he managed to establish in the GDR the cultivation of hops and develop. After 1989 he campaigned for the name “Elbe-Saale-Hopfen” to be registered and recognized as a registered trademark by the European Union in 2014 .

Life

Borde was the first son of Sophie Borde (née Güttl) and Karl Borde sen. born. The parents ran a small farm, including hop growing, and an inn with a shop. After the end of the Second World War , at the age of 16, he and his family were expelled from their Bohemian homeland. Together they settled in Saxony-Anhalt , where Karl Borde sen. again took over an agriculture. After an apprenticeship in his parents' company, Karl Borde attended a technical college for agriculture and from 1951 to 1954 studied agriculture at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . He completed this as a graduate farmer with a thesis on the possibilities of hop growing in Saxony-Anhalt. The background to this was the fact that the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR founded on its territory had been cut off from the growing areas in Bohemia and Bavaria and hop growing in the Altmark had been discontinued since around 1937. The GDR urgently needed its own hops to ensure a stable supply of beer .

Karl Borde has always been interested in hops. After completing his studies, he initially worked as an agronomist and from 1957 as a cultivation advisor for hops for the then Magdeburg district . As early as 1950/51, the first areas in Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia were cultivated with hop fans that could be obtained from Czechoslovakia on the basis of a corresponding agreement . However, it turned out that the topic required specific guidance and control from a central point. Therefore, in 1952, advice centers for hop cultivation were created in the district councils. The consultation point for hops in Bernburg emerged from the production consultancy for hops in the Volkseigen Gut (VEG) Saatzucht Bernburg, founded in 1956, and was managed by Karl Borde (1966 transition to the State Beverage Office, Hopfen und Malz branch, Leipzig).

In 1962 Karl Borde took part in the congress of the European Hop Building Office in Warsaw as a guest. From 1968 he supported the AHB Food and Beverage in taking over hop imports abroad. In 1970, on his initiative, the GDR applied for admission to the International Hop Building Office (IHB). The admission took place in 1971. Since then Karl Borde has represented the GDR together with representatives of the responsible ministry at the annual congresses. In the same year Karl Borde took over the management of the VEB Hopfen und Malz in Leipzig. As the successor to the earlier consultation point for hops, he was also responsible for the organizational support and planning of the hop cultivation as well as the acceptance, processing and distribution of the hops. Thanks to the successful cooperation between VEB Hopfen und Malz Leipzig and the producers, the GDR was able to cover its own needs for hops from 1983 onwards and even to export hops.

In 1990 Karl Borde founded the Elbe-Saale hop processing cooperative together with representatives of the leading hop producers from the states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. From 1990 until his retirement in 1992 he was chairman of the board and managing director of HVG Elbe-Saale.

International recognition

After the GDR had been a member of the IHB since 1971, Karl Borde was made chair of its Scientific Commission in 1974. The 28th International Hop Congress took place in Dresden in 1980 under the organizational direction of Karl Borde . Karl Borde has received two awards from the IHB for his services to hops, as a knight of the Order of Hops in 1973 and as an officer in 1979. After his retirement, he participated in the application process for the recognition of the “Elbe-Saale-Hopfen” brand as a product protected by the EU . This has existed with the designation of origin “ PGI ” since April 15, 2014 .

literature

  • Karl Borde (Ed.): Hopfen , Dt. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-331-00110-4
  • K. Borde: The hops are blooming: interesting, entertaining and curious facts about hops , publisher: Hopfenpflanzerverband Elbe / Saale e. V. Querfurt 2006, Druckhaus Gera (2006)
  • City Museum Dresden; Sächsischer Brauerbund eV (publisher), Matthias Griebel, Karl Borde, Gisela Haase, Igor A Jenzen, Wolfgang Kunze, Rainer Richter, Hans G Schultze-Berndt, Holger Starke, Horst Zimmermann: A beer blissful country: From the history of brewing from Dresden and the surrounding area , Fly Head Publishing, Halle 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The Elbe-Saale Hop Growers Association mourns Karl Borde", Hopfen-Rundschau, issue 5/2020 p. 187
  2. ^ [1] Borde, K. u. a. "Hops" catalog of the German National Library
  3. ^ [2] Karl Borde - manager profile
  4. ↑ [3] Homepage of the Hop Growers Association Elbe-Saale eV - Protected product
personal data
SURNAME Borde, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and specialist book author
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Roche , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2020
Place of death Potsdam