Otto Rasenack

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Otto Friedrich Wilhelm Rasenack (born May 27, 1899 in Malchow ; † May 14, 1976 in Paderborn ) was a German veterinarian and slaughterhouse expert.

Life

Otto Rasenack was born as the son of the senior teacher Richard Rasenack. During the First World War he took part as a volunteer in the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Fusilier Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm" No. 90 in Rostock and later as an ensign in the 3rd Upper Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 62 in Cosel . After the end of the war he fought in the Eastern Border Guard . In the autumn of 1923 he took part again in the fighting in Limburg an der Lahn against separatist Free Bundlers .

Rasenack began studying at the Berlin Veterinary University in the summer semester of 1920 and became a member of the Corps Franconia Berlin. In the winter semester of 1921/22 he continued studying veterinary medicine at the University of Giessen and joined the Corps Hubertia Giessen . In December 1923 he received his veterinary license in Gießen . Initially working as a practical veterinarian, he became a Dr. med. vet. PhD.

In February 1925, Rasenack became an assistant at the Wroclaw Animal Disease Office . The following November he moved to the Animal Disease Office in Kiel . At the beginning of 1927 he became senior veterinarian at the slaughterhouse in Liegnitz . In February 1931 he was appointed slaughterhouse director in Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains . In September 1938 he was appointed slaughterhouse director in Magdeburg and appointed to the municipal senior veterinary council. In November 1939 he passed the official veterinary exam in Munich. In the Second World War he took part as senior veterinarian of the reserve. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner in Norway, from which he was released in 1946. In 1947 he worked as a veterinarian in Brammesmoor near Holzdorf (Schleswig-Holstein) . In March 1948 he was appointed slaughterhouse director in Bochum .

After the Second World War, Rasenack was one of the experts in slaughterhouse matters in Germany. By creating guidelines and providing expert advice, he had a decisive influence on the slaughterhouse structure and projects throughout Germany.

Fonts

  • Effect of saline fish meal on pigs , 1925
  • Slaughterhouse Construction and Development Guidelines , 1952
  • Protective measures for the supply of food of animal origin in times of war, taking into account the effects of NBC weapons . In: Veterinary affairs in civil air defense , 1957
  • Construction, establishment and operation of slaughterhouses and cattle yards , 1960 (together with Hellmuth Hornung)
  • Slaughterhouse report - excerpt from the report on the implementation of an investigation into the capacity, location and classification of slaughterhouse facilities in the Federal Republic including Berlin , 1968 (together with Walter Wowra)
  • Expert opinion: Possibilities and suggestions for improving the structure of the municipal cattle and slaughterhouse system in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as for improving the slaughterhouse utilization of the surplus areas of the state further away from the market , 1970 (together with Walter Wowra)
  • Slaughterhouse in transition: on the way to the development of the modern slaughterhouse . In: Fleischwirtschaft , Volume 55, Issue 6, June 1975

Awards

literature

  • Fritz Riggert, Otto Gervesmann: History of the Corps Normannia Hannover, 1859, March 15, 1959, 1959, p. 162.

Web links

  • Biograms, Rasenack, Otto at www.vetmed.fu-berlin.de (website of the Free University of Berlin, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

Remarks

  1. ^ In the summer semester of 1922, Rasenack received the honorary ribbons of the Corps Normannia Hanover and the Corps Suevo-Salingia Munich . He laid down the Hubert band in 1930 as a result of the exit of the Green Cartel (Franconia, Normannia, Suevo-Salingia) from the RSC and transfer to the German Landsmannschaft.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Lackner: A "bloody business" - On the history of communal cattle farms and slaughterhouses. In: Historical yearbook of the city of Linz 2003/2004. Linz 2004, p. 807, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
personal data
SURNAME Rasenack, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rasenack, Otto Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian and slaughterhouse expert
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Malchow
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1976
Place of death Paderborn