Klaus von Rosenstiel

Klaus von Rosenstiel (born May 7, 1905 in Wilhelmshaven , Kingdom of Prussia , † July 8, 1973 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) was a German agricultural scientist, plant geneticist and breeding researcher.

Life

Klaus von Rosenstiel was the son of the frigate captain of the same name and his wife Irmgard Freiin von Wangenheim. After graduating from high school, Rosenstiel completed an agricultural training course. He then studied agricultural science at the Friedrichs University in Halle . With a doctoral thesis with Theodor Roemer , he became Dr. rer. nat. PhD .

From 1930 to 1932 he worked in Argentina , where he worked at the Instituto Fitotécnico de Santa Catalina of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata as a research assistant to Wilhelm Rudorf . In this context he undertook a. a. With the breeding researcher Erwin Baur 1930/31 a research trip through South America , in particular to discover wild potato species. Since Rosenstiel could not find a new job in research after two years as an assistant in Argentina, he returned to Germany. He then became department head for wheat breeding at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research in Müncheberg through the institute director Baur, whose daughter Brigitte he married in August 1932. Even before the National Socialists won the Reichstag elections in March 1933 , Rosenstiel joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party and the Schutzstaffel in 1932 . From 1932 to 1939 he also lectured on heredity at the German University of Politics . He carried out research on wheat breeding and mutation research. Rosenstiel took part in the German Hindu Kush expedition , which began in February 1935 and from which he returned in February 1936. His main focus on this expedition was cereal crops and seeds. Rosenstiel competed with his colleague Hans Stubbe in the years that followed .

During the attack on Poland in a police battalion, he returned to his post at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research. In the course of the German-Soviet War , in 1941 he became the head of the agricultural department at the Central Research Center for Eastern Research, which was subordinate to the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (RMfbO). In this function he was subordinate to specialist ring managers; he himself headed the crop production and breeding division. In addition, he was head of the research department at the Chief Food and Agriculture Group of the Wehrwirtschaftsstab Ost at the High Command of the Wehrmacht , where, in addition to the transfer of material from the agricultural research institutes of the Soviet Union to the German Reich , his tasks also included the establishment of research facilities in the German-occupied areas of the Soviet Union . He also coordinated agricultural research in the occupied eastern territories. In the summer of 1943 he was appointed head of the Institute for Plant Cultivation and Plant Breeding at the Agricultural University in Gorki and soon afterwards he was honored with the badge of merit of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society . In June 1944 he was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer and took over the management of the Agricultural Research Institute in Belarus . In the course of the reconquest of the German-occupied territories by the Red Army , Rosenstiel initially settled on the Zoldan estate in West Prussia . Then he returned to the Voldagsen manor . The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research was relocated there due to the war.

After the end of the war, Rosenstiel was released from his post as head of department in October 1946 due to his Nazi burden. He then headed the seed breeding division at Nordsaat GmbH in Waterneverstorf . In 1952 he completed his habilitation at the Agricultural Faculty of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . As a private lecturer , he taught plant breeding and cultivation . The CAU appointed him an associate professor in 1967 . In the summer of 1973 he wanted to take part in an international breeders conference in Leningrad. Immediately after arriving in town, he was hit by a car. Two weeks later he died in the hospital. It is still unclear whether it was an accident or an assassination attempt.

Fonts

• Studies on the wheat powdery mildew Erysiphe graminis tritici (DC), its physiological specialization and the breeding possibilities of its control . The breeder. Zeitschrift für Theoretische und Angewandte Genetik 10 (1938), pp. 247-255.
• About the production of amphidiploid rye-wheat hybrids (Secalotrica) . The breeder. Zeitschrift für Theoretische und Angewandte Genetik 15 (1943), pp. 173-183.
• Agriculture Research in the East . Parey, Berlin 1944.
• with Karl Isenbeck : The breeding of wheat . Parey, Berlin / Hamburg 1950. Special edition. from d. Plant Breeding Manual.
• with Alfred Lein and Fritz Wienhues: The analysis of the yield components in wheat as a crop -breeding problem . In: Scientific series of the agricultural and domestic evaluation and information service; H. 2. Land u. housekeeping Evaluation u. Information service, Bad Godesberg 1951.
• For the propagation of summer vetch . Kali-Briefe, Subject 3: Arable and Crop Production; Episode 9, August 1959.
• About the mechanization of breeding gardening . Seed economy. Trade journal for seeds and seeds; No. 5, May 30, 1959, pp. 139-141.
• About rationalization and mechanization of grain farming . Lectures for Plant Breeders, 1962.
• What is the experience with the cultivation of forage and silage maize? Maize cultivation - work of the DLG; Vol. 72.

literature

• Susanne Heim : calories, rubber, careers. Plant breeding and agricultural research at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes 1933–1945 , Wallstein, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3892446962 .
• Susanne Heim: The pure air of scientific research . Research program "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism", results 7, Berlin 2002 online version (PDF; 349 kB)

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus von Rosenstiel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus von Rosenstiel, with picture (Kiel list of scholars)
• Wolfgang Böhm: Biographical Handbook on the History of Crop Production (1997)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: Investigations into the resistance of oat species and varieties to oat brandy ( Ustilago avenae [Pers.] Jens.) And their inheritance .