Klaus Krombholz

Klaus Krombholz (* 1938 in Aussig ) is a German mechanical engineer and agricultural scientist .

Life

Born in northern Bohemia and raised in the GDR , Krombholz attended GutsMuths Oberschule in Quedlinburg from 1952 to 1956 , studied agricultural engineering at the TU Dresden from 1956 to 1962 , worked there as an assistant and was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD.

Until 1973 he was head of research in the Combine Progress in Neustadt in Saxony , then until 1979 he had tasks within the framework of the international cooperation of the Combine Progress with the Comecon countries and was scientific advisor to the General Directors of the Combine Progress until 1990.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the engineer took over the technology and product development sectors. From 1990 to 1999 he was head of the development of the progress harvesting machines Neustadt in Saxony . Since then he has been a freelance engineer and invented a steering system for self-propelled agricultural machines and a throughput measuring device in a harvesting machine. He has been officially retired since 2003 and lives in Stockach on Lake Constance.

He wrote four specialist books and digitized archives in cooperation with the Institute for Agricultural Engineering at the University of Hohenheim . While researching the latest book project, he realized that what had been collected was too specific. After passing the knowledge tests, he became a doctoral candidate at the University of Hohenheim and in the following year (2017) did his doctorate with Karlheinz Köller . In 1995 Krombholz was honored for his services with the Max Eyth commemorative coin of the VDI. Since 2004 he has been a member of the VDI-MEG technical committee "History of Agricultural Technology"; from 2008 to 2010 he was its chairman. Together with his wife he traveled to 80 countries, including a trip from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska via Cusco in 2006/07.

Publications

• Integrated machine systems for agriculture and the food industry; 1971
• Tasks and problems of the qualitative and quantitative provision of means of production for agriculture
• One hundred years for the agricultural engineering industry - 1897–1997
• Agricultural machinery in the GDR: light and shadow; Cadres, plans, combines ; 2008
• with Hans-Hasso Bertram and Hermann Wandel: 100 years of agricultural engineering: from handcraft to high-tech in Germany ; 2009
• About the institutions and people involved in agricultural engineering training and research in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries ; 2015

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Krombholz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Klaus Krombholz  in the German Digital Library
• Doctorate at the age of 79: University of Hohenheim congratulates Klaus Krombholz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steering system for self-propelled agricultural machines . October 29, 1999 ( google.com [accessed August 12, 2019]).