Otto Butz

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Otto Butz (born October 5, 1876 , † October 8, 1958 in Potsdam ) was a German animal breeding scientist.

Life

Otto Butz studied agriculture at the Agricultural University Poppelsdorf and the universities of Jena and Halle . In 1899 he became a member of the Corps Agraria Bonn. In the same year he joined the Corps Agronomia Jena. After graduating as Dr. phil. in Halle he became breeding director for Saxony-Anhalt in the animal breeding office in Dessau . In this function he had a major influence on the breeding and feeding of cattle and pigs in the period before the First World War . As a result, he became a consultant for animal breeding and government councilor in the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture . In 1918 he also became a member of the administrative board of the research institute for pig farming in Ruhlsdorf. He also received a lectureship in animal breeding at the agricultural school in Potsdam, and later in Oranienburg-Luisenhof. After the Second World War he became head of the cattle breeding department in the state government of Brandenburg. He taught at the agricultural college in Oranienburg, which was reopened on his initiative, until he was 75.

Together with Wilhelm Gatermann, Otto Butz was editor of the four-volume work Die Deutschen Herdbuchzuchten in 1922 . Together with Gustav Frölich and the animal breeding scientist Karl Müller , he was the editor of the pig breeding magazine .

Awards

Fonts

  • Note book on the feeding of farm animals , 1912
  • Practical Guide to Measuring Horses , 1921
  • The measurement of domestic animals (horses, cattle, pigs, sheep) , 1934
  • Basics of the estimate , 2nd revised edition, 1944
  • The Feeding , 2nd revised edition 1944
  • Feeding doctrine , 1947
  • Animal breeding , part: I., anatomy and physiology / lesson 3 , 1953

literature

  • Theophil Gerber: personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine. Biographical Lexicon. Volume 1: A-L. 3rd, exp. Edition. NORA Verlagsgemeinschaft Dyck & Westerheide, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-936735-67-3 , p. 113.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 691
personal data
SURNAME Butz, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animal breeding scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1876
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1958
Place of death Potsdam