Otto Nolte

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Otto Nolte (born March 29, 1887 in Schwanebeck ; † May 5, 1934 ) was a German agricultural chemist .

Life

Nolte, son of a farmer, studied chemistry in Rostock, Berlin and Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1912 from the University of Halle . From 1913 he was an assistant at the Agricultural Chemical Institute at the University of Göttingen . Here he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the effects of potash salts on soil and plants. In 1918 he was appointed head of the scientific department of the Agricultural Research Station in Rostock, and in 1919 he became director of the Agricultural Research Station in Braunschweig.

From 1922, Nolte headed the scientific fertilizer department of the fertilizer department of the German Agricultural Society . In this function he generously expanded the company's field testing system until 1933 . From 1922 to 1933 he was also the managing director of the special committees for green manure , soil biology and tobacco production of this company. He published numerous, mostly practice-oriented brochures and essays on all areas of fertilization . He gave agricultural chemistry lectures at the University of Göttingen, the University of Rostock , the Technical University of Braunschweig and the Agricultural University of Berlin . The latter university awarded him the title of associate professor in 1929.

Fonts (selection)

  • The manure and its uses. Berlin 1924, 3rd edition 1930 (= pamphlets of the German Agricultural Society, issue 24.)
  • Fertilizing the grassland. Berlin 1927, 2nd edition 1930 (= Grünland-Bücherei Volume 2.)
  • The importance of potash and the secondary salts contained in the crude potash salts for the soil and the plants that are directly used for human nutrition. In: The agricultural experimental stations. Volume 106, 1927, pp. 1-123; also as book publishing house Paul Parey Berlin 1927.
  • On the history of the theory of plant nutrition and fertilization. In: The Nutrition of the Plant. Volume 23, 1927, pp. 118–120 and 132–137.

literature

  • A. Fruhstorfer: Professor Dr. Otto Nolte †. In: The phosphoric acid. Volume 4, 1934, pp. 319-320 (with picture).
  • Contributions to the history of Carolo-Wilhelmina. Writings of the Braunschweigischen Hochschulbundes Volume 9, Part 2, 1991, p. 192.

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personal data
SURNAME Nolte, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwanebeck
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1934