Max Klepl

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Johannes Max Klepl (born March 13, 1864 in Bautzen ; † 1929 ) was a German agricultural scientist, animal breeder, school director and founder.

Life

He grew up in the capital of Upper Lusatia , where he attended secondary school until 1880. He then stayed as a scholar at the Kuppritz manor in the summer months . Then he went to the Selecta at the agricultural school in Bautzen. He completed his apprenticeship at the Nieder-Kemnitz manor in a year and a half before starting to study agricultural science at the University of Leipzig in autumn 1882 and graduating with a small exam after four semesters. Two years followed, in which he was administrator on the manors Hohennauen (near Rathenow) and Stötteritz (near Leipzig), before he went back to the University of Leipzig and there after one and a half years at Easter 1888 as chief agricultural adviser to Dr. phil. PhD. The topic of his dissertation was the development of English agriculture after the abolition of the grain tariffs and their significance for agricultural management and agricultural policy . It comprised 60 pages as a print. During his university days he was a full member of the St. Pauli Leipzig University Choir from 1882.

With a fresh doctorate, Max Klepl was employed as a teacher at the Agricultural School in 1888, renamed the Agricultural Educational Institute in Auerbach / Vogtl in 1890 . In 1891 he and his students moved into the new functional building of the educational institution that was built next to the Auerbach teachers' college. In 1913 Max Klepl became the director of this school, which he led through the difficult years of the First World War and the Kapp Putsch.

His services as a teacher and director also include the rescue of the red-brown cattle in the Vogtland , which he succeeded as a breeding inspector for the Vogtland in close support with the breeding station for pedigree bulls. At his suggestion, the Herdbook Association for Vogtland Cattle (VHV) was founded in 1893.

After his death, the Dr. Klepl Foundation for the Agricultural School in Auerbach i. V. launched.

Fonts (selection)

  • The development of English agriculture after the abolition of the grain tariffs and their significance for agricultural management and agricultural policy , Leipzig 1888.
  • He was editor of the magazine for Vogtland agriculture .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae up to the doctorate in: Agriculture in Various Countries of Europe , Volume 3, 1904 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ^ Membership list of the university singers
personal data
SURNAME Klepl, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klepl, Johannes Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economics councilor and school director
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen
DATE OF DEATH 1929