Kurt Nehring

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Kurt Nehring (born May 29, 1898 in Posen , † April 29, 1988 in Rostock ) was a German agricultural chemist .

Live and act

Kurt Nehring, son of a farmer, studied natural sciences at the Universities of Freiburg / Br. and Königsberg / Pr. , where in 1921 he earned a doctorate in chemistry with a dissertation. phil. received his doctorate. After several years of assistantship at various institutes, he received the license to teach ( Venia legendi ) for agricultural chemistry in Königsberg in 1928 . As a private lecturer at the Agricultural Chemical Institute of the University of Königsberg, he worked in the following years, particularly on the influence of the soil reaction on the conversion of the various nitrogen compounds in the soil. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP .

In 1935, Nehring took over the management of the agricultural research station in Jena as an associate professor . From 1936 to 1945 he was director of the Rostock Agricultural Research Station . His main research areas included problems of organic fertilization and experiments on the influence of water and nutrient supply on protein formation in barley . Increasingly, however, he devoted himself to the examination and evaluation of animal feed .

In 1948 Nehring was appointed to the chair for agricultural chemistry at the newly founded agricultural faculty of the University of Rostock and appointed director of the institute for agricultural chemistry and soil science. He headed this institute until his retirement in 1963. In 1951 he was commissioned to set up a central institute for animal nutrition. From 1952 to 1964 he headed this institute, which developed under his aegis as the " Oskar Kellner Institute " into an internationally recognized research facility in the GDR.

In the first years after the Second World War, Nehring worked on current issues in the field of humus research , e.g. B. the long-term effects of liquid manure compost . He also carried out field tests on problems relating to crop cultivation, for example the transplanting of grain. His central research focus, however, became the field of animal nutrition and feed science . He developed an energetic feed evaluation system that initiated a paradigm shift in the field of animal nutrition.

Nehring is regarded as one of the outstanding encyclopedists of agricultural chemistry of the 20th century with extensive knowledge in the fields of soil science, fertilization, plant nutrition, agricultural experiments and animal nutrition. The overall bibliography of his scientific publications includes over 450 works. Of his main work, the textbook on animal nutrition and animal feed , a total of nine editions were published between 1950 and 1972. Nehring's ability to use the most important findings from scientific research for agricultural practice was admirable.

honors and awards

Nehring has received numerous honors and awards as a researcher, teacher and science organizer. In 1951 he was appointed to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR, in 1957 to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and in 1966 to the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. Numerous other awards deserve special mention: 1963 award of the Erwin Baur Medal by the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR, 1964 of the Henneberg Lehmann Prize by the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Göttingen and in 1964 the Hugo Neubauer Award by the Association of German Agriculturalists Investigation and research institutes. In 1952 Nehring was awarded the National Prize II. Class by the government of the GDR and in 1959 with the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

Four faculties awarded him an honorary doctorate :

  • 1956 the agricultural faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin ,
  • 1965 the veterinary medicine faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin ,
  • 1968 the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Rostock ,
  • 1987 the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Göttingen .

Major works

  • Textbook of animal nutrition and feed science . Neumann-Verlag Radebeul and Berlin 1950; 2nd edition 1952; 3rd edition 1953; 4th edition 1953; 5th edition 1955; 6th edition 1955; 7th edition 1960; 8th edition 1964; 9. rework. u. exp. 1972 edition.
  • Agricultural chemical internship. Quantitative analysis to study fertilizers and feed, milk and soil for use by students of agricultural chemistry, agriculture and forestry as well as natural sciences . Original edition by Hans Wießmann (Berlin 1926). - Second completely revised edition by Kurt Nehring. Verlag Paul Parey Berlin 1951. - 3rd edition under the title Agricultural chemical investigation methods for fertilizers and animal feed, soils and milk . Revised by Kurt Nehring. Publishing house Paul Parey Hamburg and Berlin 1960.
  • The evaluation of feed materials and other animal nutrition problems . Edited by Kurt Nehring and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin. Deutscher Bauernverlag Berlin 1954 = commemorative publication on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the agricultural research station Leipzig-Möckern Part 2 (Scientific Treatises Vol. 5.2).
  • Fertilization, quality and feed value . In: Handbook of plant nutrition and fertilization. Vol. 3, Fertilization of Cultivated Plants, Second Half. Springer-Verlag Wien-New York 1965, pp. 1260-1354.
  • Forage crops (cultivation technique - workload - feed value - nutrient yield) , together with Fritz Lüddecke. VEB Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag Berlin 1971.

literature

  • Carl Heinrich Engelmann: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Kurt Nehring on his 60th birthday . In: Contributions from agricultural chemistry to problems in research and practice. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Prof. Dr. Dr. H. c. K. Nehring. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1958 = Scientific treatises of the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin No. 37, pp. 9–27 (with list of publications; picture on p. 2).
  • W. Wöhlbier : Prof. Dr. Dr.hc Kurt Nehring on reaching the age of 65 . In: Journal for Animal Physiology, Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, Vol. 18, 1963, pp. 257-258 (with picture).
  • R. Schiemann : Prof. (em.) Dr. Dr.hc mult. Kurt Nehring on his 80th birthday . In: Archives for Animal Nutrition Vol. 28, 1978, pp. 269-272 (with picture).
  • Fritz Lüddecke: History of animal and plant nutrition research in Rostock from 1793 to 1962 . Published by the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR. Rostock 1987 (with list of publications and picture).
  • Bernd Wöbke:  Nehring, Kurt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 40 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Siegfried Kuntsche:  Nehring, Kurt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 233.
personal data
SURNAME Nehring, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1988
Place of death Rostock