Ludwig Gall

This article deals with the inventor and social theorist Ludwig Gall. For the Chamberlain and Major General see Ludwig von Gall .

Ludwig Gall, 1860.

Heinrich Ludwig Lambert Gall (born December 28, 1791 in Aldenhoven , † January 31, 1863 in Trier ) was an inventor and social theorist. He is considered to be the savior of wine growing on the Moselle .

Life

Memorial plaque on ...

Ludwig Gall House in Aldenhoven

50 ° 53 ′ 41.5 "  N , 6 ° 17 ′ 15"  E

After various positions, Gall came to Trier in 1815 and was employed as a secretary in the newly formed district government in 1816. Due to the plight of the population, he carried out an emigration campaign to Harrisburg in the USA , but returned in 1820 and wrote a two-volume critical work about his experiences during this campaign. From 1826, Gall worked for the government in Koblenz to deal with domain matters and promoted the replacement of the right to tithe in the vineyards on the right bank of the Rhine. Later he tried to alleviate the plight of the Moselle winegrowers, for which he developed the process of "wet improvement" or, more appropriately, "wet sugaring". Several poor harvests, especially in 1850, had resulted in many winemakers giving up viticulture. Since the must in bad years contained too much acid and too little sugar, water and sugar were added to dilute the acid. For Gall, this was not a falsification of the wine, since it is an art product anyway. In 1857 he founded a weekly newspaper, the "Allgemeine Deutsche Telegraph", based in Stuttgart.

Services

Gall's inventions are now largely out of date. With his “wet sugaring” process, he was considered the savior of Moselle viticulture. In retrospect, however, one has to state that the application of the process ruined the reputation of Moselle wine and that it was long considered an inferior cheap product.

Works

• Well-intentioned advice to my German compatriots when they landed in the United States of North America in 1820;
• My emigration to the United States of North America in the spring of 1819 and my return to home in the winter of 1820, 2 volumes, Trier 1822. Digitally available on Google [1]
• What could help? : permanent grain storage to meet every need of want and abundance forever, and credit notes, guaranteed by the grain stores, to put an end to the sole rule of money. Trier 1825. (Reprint Glashütte 1974)
• Presentation of the advantages of the steam-distilling apparatus patented in Prussia, Austria, Bavaria and Württemberg for distillery owners and copper goods manufacturers. Trier 1831
• My will and my work. Trier 1835 (Reprint Glashütte 1974)
• Illumination of Förster's so-called criticism of the most famous stills: along with proposals for a competition between those apparatuses which claim to be the most expedient. Trier 1835. Digitally available on Google [2]
• Practical instructions on how to make very good medium wines even from unripe grapes and excellent post-wine from the marc, 3rd edition (with detailed reasons for the vintner's distress). Trier 1854
• An improvement on room stoves of all kinds that can be set up in ten minutes, which means that apartments are heated better and more evenly with 1/3 less fuel. Trier 1855. Digitally available on Google [3]
• About the necessity and manner of storing grain. A contribution to the social question. In: Frederick the Great's attempt on forms of government and duties as a regent: translated from Frederick's posthumous works anew from the French; with comments on magazines against Theurung and Hungersnoth, Trier 1850: pp. 49–68. Digitally available at Dilibri [4]

literature

• anonymous: The Minister's Count Chaptal and Dr. Gall's Winemaking Methods Before the Law. Can what is recognized as meritorious in Prussia be forbidden by law in Bavaria? Trier 1854 (bibliography on the history and culture of wine of the Society for the History of Wine ).
• anonymous: On the question of Gallization. An economic light from the files of the Palatinate Gallization processes. From a lawyer from the Palatinate. Along with several other documents on Gall's winemaking method . Trier 1856.
• Karl Erich Born:  Gall, Heinrich Ludwig Lambert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 44 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Fritz Brügel (Hrsg.) Benedikt Kautsky (Hrsg.): The German socialism from Ludwig Gall to Karl Marx . Hess, Vienna (among others) 1931.
• Verena Greten: Ludwig Gall - modern economist of his time. An examination of the economic approaches in the work of Heinrich Ludwig Lambert Galls (1791–1863) . Publication series economic research results, Volume 104, ISSN  1435-6872 . Kovač, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-8300-1914-9 .
• William Löbe:  Gall, Heinrich Ludwig Lampert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 316 f.
• Heinz Monz : Ludwig Gall. Life and work . NCO-Verlag Neu & Co, Trier 1979.
• Heinz Monz: Ludwig Gall, savior of the Moselle winemakers or forger? Writings on wine history, Volume 57, ISSN  0302-0967 . Society for the History of Wine, Wiesbaden 1981.
• Heinz Monz: Ludwig Gall from Aldenhoven In: Jülicher Geschichtsblätter , 1972, ISSN  0572-6123 .
• Heinz Monz: On his 200th birthday: Ludwig Gall (1791 to 1863) in a tribute to his contemporary Emil Ottocar Weller . Reprint from: New Trierisches Jahrbuch 1991
• Heinz Monz:  Gall, Ludwig Heinrich Lambert. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 1016-1019.
• Hermann Püttmann : Ludwig Gall, from: Deutsches Bürgerbuch für 1846 (Mannheim, 1846) , in: Fritz Brügel , Benedikt Kautsky (ed.): The German Socialism from Ludwig Gall to Karl Marx. Hess & Co., Vienna 1931, pp. 21-30
• Rudolf Singer:  Ludwig Gall, the first German socialist. A contribution to the history of the development of socialism. In:  Journal for Economics, Social Policy and Administration , year 1894, pp. 417–434. (Online at ANNO ). .
• Frederic Trautmann: New York Through German Eyes. The Travels of Ludwig Gall, 1819 In: New York history. Cooperstown, NY October, 1981 pp. 439 ff.
• Karl Georg Zinn: On the early history of "theoretical interventionism". At the same time a memory of Heinrich Ludwig Lambert Gall (1794–1863) . In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften (ZWS) , Volume 106.1986, ISSN  0342-1783 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1986, pp. 139-165.
• Karl Georg Zinn, Heinrich Ludwig Lambert: Heinrich Ludwig Lambert Gall - the unknown early Keynesian of the 19th century . In: Karl Georg Zinn: The Keynesche Alternative. Contributions to the Keynesian stagnation theory, to the historical oblivion of economics and to the question of the left business ethics . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89965-323-6 , 165-174.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Gall in the catalog of the German National Library