Maria Müller (agricultural scientist)

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Maria Müller (* 1894 ; † 1969 ) was a Swiss gardener and headmistress

In the 1940s and 1950s, the farmer's daughter developed the practical principles of organic farming in the garden of the Möschberg home mother's school in Grosshöchstetten, which she runs . In 1946, the training facility for young women farmers was the first state-approved school to take up organic farming , horticulture and whole-food nutrition as curriculum subjects .

Together with her husband, the agricultural politician and doctorate in biologist Hans Müller , and the doctor and bacteriologist Hans Peter Rusch , Maria Müller became a pioneer for ecological agriculture in German-speaking countries and especially for the leading cultivation association Bioland today (along with Demeter ) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brunhilde Bross-Burkhardt: Private biological horticulture in southern Germany since 1945 - The role of pioneers and changes in knowledge transfer . Edition Gardens and History, Langenburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-033835-9 , pp. 60-68 .
  2. ^ History. Retrieved November 9, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ The organic movement has its roots on the Möschberg. (PDF) Bergheimat-Nachrichten, 2011, p. 12 , accessed on November 9, 2018 .
  4. ^ Brunhilde Bross-Burkhardt: Private biological horticulture in southern Germany since 1945 - The role of pioneers and changes in knowledge transfer . Edition Gardens and History, Langenburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-033835-9 , pp. 60-68 .
  5. ^ Bioland: Bioland history. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss agronomist
DATE OF BIRTH 1894
DATE OF DEATH 1969