Max Kuntzsch

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Max Kuntzsch keeps beekeeping in back-treatment hives.

Max Kuntzsch (full name: Carl Max Kuntzsch ; born February 16, 1851 in Gohlis , † November 20, 1919 in Nowawes ) was a German beekeeper and bee researcher .

Life

"Kuntzsch twin"

“His motto: Little work, lots of honey! -
His goal: beekeeping must feed its husband! -
His answer: The Kuntzsch twin! "

Max Kuntzsch was the son of a shopkeeper and market helper, the younger brother of the wood sculptor Gustav Kuntzsch (1848-1919).

After he had to give up his job as the owner of a wallpapering and furniture construction business for health reasons, he turned to beekeeping and experimented for many years.

He developed the "Kuntzsch twin" hive, which was widespread at the time, and standardized a honeycomb size ( Kuntzsch wide honeycomb measuring 33 × 25 cm). His advice book Beekeeping Questions was considered a specialist book for decades and appeared in numerous editions. Numerous research trips took him all over the world.

The sales of his booty and books made him very wealthy.

legacy

Max Kuntzsch in his apiary.

Kuntzsch introduced the economic work with wooden hives at a time when a lot of beekeeping was still done with basket hives. Its twin prey are no longer in use today; A reprint of the original 1912 edition of his book Beekeeping Questions was published in 2015. However, the Kuntzsch honeycomb pliers are still a standard tool today. In today's widespread Golz hives, bees are kept with Kuntzsch honeycombs.

The writer Hans Fallada and the heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling, for example, kept beekeeping with Kuntzsch twins.

literature

  • The Wolfenbüttler (Max Kuntzsch): Kuntzsch twin for beekeeping: Rich in experience. 7th edition, Verlag Heinrich Thie, Wolfenbüttel 1936.
  • Max Kuntzsch: Beekeeping questions. (8th) edition revised by Wilhelm Harney and Karl Hans Kickhöffel with an extensive biographical outline, Edmund Stein Verlag, Potsdam 1942
    (reprint of the original edition from 1912; Fachbuchverlag Dresden, Dresden 2015, ISBN 9783956927706 ).
  • Rudolph Jacoby: The Beekeeper ABC - Beekeeping Lexicon. 2nd, expanded edition. Verlag Die Bienenzucht, Bad Segeberg 1964, DNB 452159377 , p. 373 ff.

Web links

Commons : Max Kuntzsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • The Wolfenbüttler Kuntzsch-Zwilling (WKZ) , accessed on February 25, 2018.
  • Famous bee researchers and beekeepers of the 19th and 20th centuries . Retrieved February 25, 2018.

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Baptismal register of Eutritzsch , year 1851, page 89, no. 22 (Gohlis was parish to Eutritzsch until 1870).
  2. ↑ Erich Schwärzel: Through them we became - biography of the grandmasters and promoters of beekeeping in German-speaking countries. Verlag Die Biene, Gießen 1985, DNB 860357376 , p. 134 ff.
  3. ↑ Saxon Biography , page 33 , accessed on March 19, 2019.
  4. ^ Kuntzsch-Zwilling , accessed on February 9, 2016.
  5. ↑ Eutritzsch's baptismal register, year 1848, page 32, no. 65.
  6. ^ Catalog of the German National Library.
personal data
SURNAME Kuntzsch, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German beekeeper and bee researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Gohlis (Leipzig)
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1919
Place of death Nowawes