Otto Schindler

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Memorial stone for Otto Schindler on Wittmoor

Otto Schindler (born June 12, 1871 in Frankenthal (Pfalz) ; † November 7, 1936 ) was a German horticultural teacher. From 1911 to 1922 he was head of the Prussian Pomological Institute in Proskau near Oppeln in Silesia and then of the Saxon State School for Horticulture in Pillnitz near Dresden . He is the breeder of the strawberry varieties Mieze Schindler and Oberschlesien .

Career

The grave of Otto Schindler and his wife Mieze in the cemetery in Dresden-Hosterwitz

Otto Schindler was born in Frankenthal in the Rhine Palatinate in 1871. His father ran a small industrial company in Westphalia. Even during his school days, Otto Schindler often stayed in a neighboring nursery. He spent his teaching and assistant time in the Rhineland, in the Kingdom of Hanover and in Bavaria. He received his horticultural training at the higher education institution for viticulture, fruit growing and horticulture in Geisenheim am Rhein in Hesse , where he also passed the second state examination and at the same time proved his teaching qualification. In Geisenheim he also assisted the then regional fruit growing teacher for the Wiesbaden administrative district for a while, and he soon succeeded him. After a brief activity at the Wiesbaden Chamber of Agriculture, he joined the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Saxony in Halle (Saale) in 1903 as head of the fruit growing department . In 1911 he was appointed director of the Proskau educational institute for pomology , where he was also the department head for fruit growing, tree nursery and agriculture and a specialist instructor for fruit growing. During his tenure (until May 1922) he expanded the royal pomological institute by introducing new subjects, redesigning the curriculum, expanding the cultural facilities and conducting experiments both internally and externally. For these achievements he was awarded the title of economics council.

On June 1, 1922 he resigned from the Prussian civil service and became the first director of the then newly founded Saxon State School for Horticulture in Pillnitz near Dresden. He developed the establishment into an institute with an international reputation as a training center for the gardening profession. In Pillnitz in the 1920s he bred the very tasty, but poorly storable and transportable and not very productive strawberry variety Mieze Schindler from the strawberry varieties Lucida Perfecta and Johannes Müller , which he nicknamed his wife (Puss probably from Maria or von Minna ) gave. The strawberry variety of Upper Silesia , which Schindler still bred in Proskau, found widespread use in the fruit trade until the Second World War. Other strawberry varieties bred by Schindler are 'Proskau', 'Pillnitz', 'Mathilde,' Ernst Preuss', 'Johannes Müller' and 'Königin Luise' '. Schindler also conducted research in the field of fruit rootstocks, in particular the influence of rootstocks on the development of the refined noble varieties and their breeding improvement. He is the breeder of the weak growing apple rootstock Pi80, which is still used in fruit growing today.

In 1922 Otto Schindler received the Silesian Probation Badge , the Silesian Eagle.

In June 1925 Schindler became a member of the Chamber of Agriculture of the Free State of Saxony for horticulture. Here he belonged to the committee for vegetable growing, for tree nursery and the school committee. He also advocated the structuring of horticultural training. On his initiative, assistant examinations and recognition of nurseries as training companies were introduced in Silesia. In the Reich Association of German Horticulture, he worked in the department for horticultural training.

In 1928 he was appointed full professor for fruit growing at the Agricultural University in Berlin by the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture . The management of the teaching and research institute for horticulture (LuFA) in Berlin-Dahlem was also associated with the position. Schindler declined the offer, however, because he wanted to remain director of the Pillnitz educational institution. In recognition of his achievements for the Pillnitz educational institution and as thanks for his decision to stay in Pillnitz, the Saxon Ministry of Economic Affairs awarded him the title of professor on March 8, 1929.

Schindler died in late 1936 at the age of 65.

Publications

  • Johannes Müller / Otto Bissmann / Walther Poenicke / Hermann Rosenthal / Otto Schindler et al., "Germany's fruit varieties" - In this work, more than 300 apple, pear, plum, strawberry, apricot and wine varieties are described. The work was published in 26 deliveries between 1905 and 1936.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Otto Schindler - On his appointment as head of the Saxon State School for Horticulture in Pillnitz. In: Die Gartenwelt - Illustrated weekly for horticulture as a whole. XXVI. Volume, 14, No. 15, April 1922, p. 160.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Professor Schindler †. In: The horticultural industry - business newspaper of German horticulture. Volume 53, No. 46, November 12, 1936.
  3. ↑ Daniela Gassmann, “Making the kitty socially acceptable. The problem with the most delicious strawberry variety in the world ”, in: SZ-Magazin issue 48/2018 of November 29, 2018, https://sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/die-mieze-salonfaehig-machen-86430 . S. a .: Sebastian Herrmann, tomato grower: The Kaiser of the Paradeiser. In search of the ultimate taste: The Austrian Erich Stekovics breeds thousands of tomato varieties, in: sueddeutsche.de, May 22, 2010, https://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/tomatenzuechter-der-kaiser-der-paradeiser-1.771013 -0 # page-2
  4. ↑ Till Hein: The return of Mieze Schindler. In: Die Zeit vom June 1, 2006, accessed on December 27, 2019.
  5. ↑ S., "Professor Otto Schindler zum Gedächtnis", in: "Der Blumen- und Pflanzenbau" combined with "Die Gartenwelt", 40th year, No. 49, December 4, 1936, p. 592, http: // gartentexte -digital.ub.tu-berlin.de/archiv/Gartenwelt/Jg.40/Heft_49.pdf#page=12 . S. a .: Magda-Viola Hanke, Henryk Flachowsky, "Fruit breeding and scientific principles", Springer Spectrum, 2017, p. 20, https://books.google.de/books?id=-O4mDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20
  6. ↑ a b The beginnings in Pillnitz and Müncheberg (1922 - 1945). In: Monika Höfer, Andreas Peil, Mirko Schuster, Margita Handschack, Rainer Schöne, Wolf-Dietmar Wackwitz: Pillnitzer fruit varieties. Published by the Julius Kühn Institute - Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants (JKI) - Institute for breeding research on horticultural crops and fruit. November 2009, p. 2
  7. ^ Agricultural Yearbooks - Journal for Scientific Agriculture, LVII. Volume (57th Bd.), Supplementary Volume I., Berlin, Parey 1922, reports of the Höhere Gärtneranstalt zu Dahlem, the Höhere Lehranstalt für Wein-, Obst- und Gartenbau zu Geisenheim a. Rh. And the Higher State College for Fruit Growing and Horticulture in Proskau for the financial years 1920 and 1921, reported by the director of the institute, p. 7, https://archive.org/details/landwirtschaftli1922berl/page/n7
  8. ↑ Die Gartenwelt, Vol. 29, No. 24, June 12, 1925, p. 387 (corresponding to p. 15 of the PDF file), http://gartentexte-digital.ub.tu-berlin.de/archiv /Gartenwelt/Jg.29/Heft_24.pdf#page=15
  9. ^ Oekonomierat Otto Schindler in Pillnitz was given the title of "Professor". In: Die Gartenbauwirtschaft - professional business newspaper of German horticulture including field-based fruit and vegetable growing. Reich Association of German Horticulture e. V. (Ed.), Volume 44, No. 12, Berlin, March 21, 1929, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Schindler, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist, horticultural teacher and strawberry grower
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenthal (Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1936