Otto Engels

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Otto Engels (born April 26, 1875 in Düsseldorf-Holthausen , † June 18, 1960 in Speyer ) was a German agricultural chemist .

Life

Engels, son of a farmer, studied natural sciences in Bonn and Würzburg. In 1900 he was at the University of Wroclaw with a dissertation on formaldehyde doctorate . After working at the agricultural research stations in Breslau and Marburg, he joined the agricultural research station in Speyer in 1904 as a scientific assistant . In 1928 he was appointed deputy director and in 1939 director of this station. He only retired in 1948 at the age of 73.

Engels, who was awarded the title of professor in 1926, mainly dealt with chemical-analytical work in the fields of soil science , plant nutrition and animal feed science . He is the author of several books and has published almost 1,000 articles in scientific and practical journals.

He was a member of the Landsmannschaft Saxo-Makaria Würzburg , today's Landsmannschaft Alemannia Makaria .

Fonts

  • Short feeding apprenticeship for practical farmers and students of agriculture. In addition to an appendix: feed calculations and feed tables . Freising 1929 = Weihenstephan font collection for practical agriculture H. 22.
  • The modern fertilization, its development history and future. With an appendix of the most important fertilizers, their analyzes and manufacturers (with Hermann Schmitt). General industrial publishing house Knorre & Co. Berlin 1942.
  • Mineral fertilizers and agricultural machinery as the mainstays of large German agriculture (with Hermann Schmitt). General industrial publishing house Knorre & Co. Berlin 1943.
  • Feed cellulose, its extraction and utilization. A review and outlook . Publishing house for chemical industry Augsburg 1948.

literature

  • Alois Gruber: Great honors for even greater merits. Professor Dr. Otto Engels celebrated his 85th birthday today . In: Die Rheinpfalz vol. 16 from April 26, 1960 (with picture).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 435.
  2. ↑ Max Mechow, Renowned CCER, Historia Academica, Volume 8/9, pp 46th
personal data
SURNAME Engels, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf-Holthausen
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1960
Place of death Speyer