Otto Sartorius (oenologist)

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Otto Sartorius (born September 23, 1892 in Mußbach ; † December 20, 1977 also in Mußbach, since 1969 district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) was a wine-growing entrepreneur and oenologist .

family

Sartorius was born into a family in which viticulture and the management of a large winery had been a tradition since 1811. His father of the same name (1842–1911) had studied Kameralia and in 1899, after his relatives had been paid off, became the sole owner of the Mußbacher Herrenhof , the oldest winery in the Palatinate ; In 1903 he was elected to the Reichstag . The mother was Johanne Weddigen (born April 19, 1865 in Elberfeld ), the second wife of the father.

The son was also married twice, the first to Margarete Gerlach and the second to Ingeborg Doflein . He had a total of five daughters from both marriages.

education and profession

As early as 1911, at the age of 19, Sartorius took over the management of the manor after the death of his father. At the same time he began his studies in natural sciences , which he completed in Heidelberg and Montpellier . In 1926 he earned his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on the vines . He managed the manor house until his death in 1977, even after he had sold it to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1970.

In addition to his entrepreneurial activity, Sartorius devoted himself primarily to wine and viticulture. In almost 40 oenological publications he dealt with the physiology of the vines , their flowering and other areas of grapevine breeding. After many years of research on descendants of the Silvanerrebe , he first described the relationship between wine yield and quality, known as the "quantity-quality law" . He also carried out studies on leaf and wood development in vines as well as on soil science and vine protection.

In 1946 Sartorius became a private lecturer at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and gave lectures on the cultural and economic importance of viticulture. He published the chronicle of the wine village of Mußbach in 1959 and is still considered a standard work today.

Associations and memberships

Sartorius was the re-founder or co-founder of the Weinbauverband der Rheinpfalz and the German Viticulture Association (DWV). From 1947 to 1956 he held the office of Vice President of the Palatinate Wine Association. For many years he was also chairman of the committee for phylloxera control and grafted vine growing in the DWV and the viticulture committee of the German Agricultural Society (DLG) as well as a board member of the natural science association Pollichia . From 1961 he was also President of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science .

Awards

  • Honorary member of the German Viticulture Association
  • Honorary member of the Palatinate Viticulture Association
  • Bassermann-Jordan medal from the German Agricultural Society
  • Silver chamber medal from the Palatinate Chamber of Agriculture
  • Federal Cross of Merit 1st class

Publications

  • To develop the physiology of the vines . 1926 (dissertation).
  • Alfred Bozi, Otto Sartorius (ed.): The German economy - a manual to structure . From the practice for the practice. Reimar Hobbing Publishing House, Berlin 1926.
  • Heredity studies on the grapevine with special attention to the leaf . In: The horticultural science . No. 16 . Berlin 1942.
  • Ownership and parceling in viticulture . Historical development and questions of the present. In: Viticulture . 1950.
  • Mussbach . The story of a wine village. Verlag des Historisches Verein der Pfalz, Speyer 1959 (with a map and 16 illustrations in the text based on drawings by Hildegard Weddigen).
  • Two thousand years of viticulture in the Rhine Palatinate . In: Lively Rhineland-Palatinate . Vol. 11, No. 4 , 1974.

literature

  • Palatinate home . 1968, p. 30-32 .
  • German viticulture . No. 1 , 1978, p. 7 .
  • German Viticulture Yearbook . 1979.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fritz Schumann: Sartorius, Otto (1892–1977). Society for the History of Wine , accessed on September 15, 2010 (portrait).
personal data
SURNAME Sartorius, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oenologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Mustbach
DATE OF DEATH 20th December 1977
Place of death Neustadt an der Weinstrasse - Mußbach