Max Kling

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Max Kling (born June 1, 1874 in Marienau , West Prussia , † December 27, 1950 in Speyer ) was a German agricultural chemist . He worked for forty years at the Palatinate Agricultural Research Station and Chemical Research Institute in Speyer. His main research interests were animal feed science and fertilizer theory .

Life

Max Kling attended the grammar school in Elblag , put 1893 Graduate from, then studied chemistry and other science subjects at the University of Breslau and was there in 1898 with a dissertation on the imides of the succinic acid to Dr. phil. PhD. During his studies in 1893 he became a member of the Academic Scientific Association in Breslau . This was followed by a year-long assistantship at the agricultural chemical test station of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Silesia in Wroclaw. From 1899 he worked at the Palatinate Agricultural Research Station and Chemical Research Institute in Speyer . In 1912 he was appointed head of department, in 1919 he received the title of professor and from 1928 to 1939 he was director of this station.

During his forty years of service at this research station (today's name: Agricultural Investigation and Research Institute Speyer ), Kling was mainly active in the fields of animal feed and fertilizer theory . He published a large number of articles on the results of soil studies on vineyards in the Palatinate . His main work is a two-volume manual on commercial feed (1928, 1936), of which Werner Wöhlbier published a revised second edition after his death.

Publications (selection)

  • The war fodder . Publishing house Eugen Ulmer Stuttgart 1918.
  • Guide to fertilizer theory. Textbook for use in agricultural schools and agricultural winter schools as well as for self-teaching for practical farmers . Paul Parey publishing house in Berlin 1920; 2nd edition there 1921.
  • The commercial feed. Manual for scientific institutions, sworn commercial chemists, agricultural authorities, agricultural schools, agricultural cooperatives, practical farmers, feed dealers and manufacturers . Publishing house Eugen Ulmer Stuttgart 1928; Supplementary volume 1936. - 2nd edition reissued by Werner Wöhlbier ibid Volume 1, 1977; Volume 2, (two partial volumes) 1983.

literature

  • To thank and remember our dead: Max Kling (1874-1950) . In: Palatinate home . Volume 2, 1951, p. 28.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report on the second decade of the Academic Scientific Association in Breslau. Breslau 1894, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Kling, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienau , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1950
Place of death Speyer