Ludwig Dürrwaechter

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Ludwig Dürrwaechter (old spelling Duerrwaechter; born June 20, 1897 in Bamberg , † October 21, 1964 in Munich ) was a German animal breeding scientist and farmer .

Memorial plaque in Grub (Poing)

Live and act

After high school and practical apprenticeship, he studied agriculture at the Technical University of Munich and graduated with a state examination as a certified farmer . In 1922 the doctorate to Dr. rer. techn. at the agr. Department of the Technical University of Munich and the animal breeding manager examination for the higher administrative service. After a brief activity in the Donauwörth animal breeding office, Dürrwaechter became head of the branch and later the animal breeding office in Günzburg in 1924. During this time the mast performance testing institute Nußlacherhof was established. From 1934 to 1945 Dürrwaechter was the head of the animal breeding department in the Bavarian state farming community. He implemented the new Reich ordinance of 1936 on the licensing of sire animals for his region. In 1943 he qualified as a professor at the Faculty of Agriculture at the Technical University of Munich for animal breeding.

After the end of the Second World War he became head of department in the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry. Here he campaigned for the restart of the animal breeding associations, supported the development of the research institutes and created the prerequisites for training animal breeding personnel for Bavaria. From 1954 he was - now in the rank of ministerial director - head of the animal production department . He encouraged the establishment of the Animal Breeding Research Association and dealt with the fight against tuberculosis and epidemic calving ( Abortus Bang ), with the introduction and expansion of artificial insemination in cattle as well as with the development of the progeny testing in wards and the application of the results blood group research,

From 1958 to 1962 Dürrwaechter was chairman of the German Society for Breeding Science . He was also elected 1st Vice-President of the European Association for Animal Production (EVT), and from 1962 to 1965 he was 1st Vice-President of the European Association of Simmental Breeders (EVF). The veterinary faculty of the University of Munich appointed him honorary professor for animal breeding in 1959. He published over 200 articles in agricultural and veterinary journals and devoted himself particularly to the problems of farms - his breeding primer appeared in 10 editions between 1948 and 1962.

Main work (selection)

  • Down-to-earth animal breeding and husbandry under southern German conditions in their importance for the food industry. Have Letter from the Faculty of Agriculture at the Technical University of Munich, 1943
  • Heredity and peasant animal breeding. Freising, 1927
  • Breeding primer: Instructions for economical animal breeding for the farm. Munich: Bayer. Landwirtschaftsverlag, 1st edition, 1948; 10. verb. 1962 edition
  • Artificial insemination and milk production in the Netherlands. With Anton Rinecker and Carl Heinz Heidenreich, Bad Godesberg: AID, 1953;
  • Festschrift of the state agencies of the Bavarian State Ministry for ELF: On the completion of the 60th birthday of Ludwig Dürrwaechter, June 20, 1957. Munich et al: Bayer. Agricultural Publishing, 1957
  • Processing industry and market, Munich, 1961
  • The previous pollution of Bavarian agriculture, caused by the natural, structural and economic conditions with special consideration of the naturally disadvantaged areas in Bavaria. Munich, 1962
  • Problems of Bavarian Agriculture in Transition to the EEC., Munich, 1963

Awards

literature

  • Theophil Gerber: Personalities from agriculture and forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine: Biographisches Lexikon. Berlin: NORA Verl., 2008. (Vol. 1, p. 152), ISBN 3-936735-67-0
  • Biogram in the veterinary medicine library of the Free University of Berlin
  • Wilhelm Zorn : Our President 65 years. In: Zücht.kde, 34, 1962
  • Award for honorary professor Dr. rer. techn. Ludwig Dürrwaechter, Ministerial Director: In: Chronicle of the LMU Munich, 1961/62, p. 173
  • Georg Schönmuth : 100 years of the German Society for Breeding Science (DGfZ). In: Züchtungskunde, 77, 2005, No. 6, pp. 464–471
  • Previously awarded the Hermann von Nathusius Medal

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Dürrwaechter Chairman of the DGfZ
  2. ^ Awarded the Hermann von Nathusius Medal
  3. ^ Awarded the Adolf Köppe needle
  4. ↑ Award in Bavaria 1962
personal data
SURNAME Dürrwaechter, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duerrwaechter, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animal breeding scientist and farmer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1964
Place of death Munich