Paul Krische

Paul Krische (born May 1, 1878 in Göttingen , † November 5, 1956 in Berlin ) was a German agricultural chemist, agricultural geographer and free thinker.

Life

Paul August Heinrich Krische, related to the Göttingen classical philologist August Bernhard Krische (1809–1848), studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen since 1898 and received his doctorate in 1903 under Otto Wallach with the dissertation “About thiopinacones and their conversion into hydrocarbons”. This was followed by a two-year assistantship at the agricultural research station in Köslin (Pomerania). From 1906 to 1943 Krische was librarian and head of the literary office at the German Potash Indicator in Berlin. During this time, as editor-in-chief, he was editor-in-chief of the bi-monthly publication “The Nutrition of the Plant” published by this syndicate and published numerous articles there himself. After 1947 Krische was also the editor in charge of the magazine “Die deutsche Landwirtschaft” in the Soviet occupation zone and was active in the library system of the newly founded GDR.

Krische has published a guidebook on the study of chemistry and was the author of several papers on agricultural chemistry, chemical methods of investigation and efficient fertilization. He gained a high reputation in the professional world for his self-designed maps of the regional distribution of soils and cultivated plants, which he published in the magazine "Die Nanzle der Pflanzen". He later published most of these maps together with supplementary cartographic representations in four large-format atlas volumes.

Free thinkers and sex reformer

Krische had married the teacher Maria Reinicke (1880–1945) in Cologne in 1904 , with whom he had two sons who, however, died early. Both became free thinkers and were active in the free religious community in Berlin and in the sexual reform movement from the war years . Maria Krische joined the “Medical Society for Sexual Science and Eugenics” in 1920, and both were members of the working committee of the “ World League for Sexual Reform ”. Maria had returned to teaching in 1914 and had been a teacher at the Free Religious Congregation in Berlin from 1919, which Paul led at times alongside his professional activity. In 1928 Maria became an employee of the SPD party school in Berlin. In 1929/30 she and Magnus Hirschfeld published the popular science magazine “The Enlightenment”. Both shared the conviction that a change in the production process in the sense of socialism would be unthinkable without a previous revolution in sexual relations and argued here in a similar way to other Freudo Marxists , although they were not recognized in his sectarian circles. A five-volume work, “The Path of Woman's Destiny”, did not go beyond a volume published in 1927 about the matriarchal society because of the Nazis' seizure of power in 1933 . Both now withdrew from political life.

Major works

• How do you study chemistry? A guide for anyone devoted to this science . Verlag W. Violet Stuttgart 1904; 2nd edition 1919.
• The investigation and assessment of fertilizers, feed, seeds and soil samples according to the official methods of the Association of Agricultural Experimental Stations in the German Empire . Paul Parey Berlin 1906; 2. Completely rework. u. supplementary edition, together with Albert Kabitzsch, ibid. 1929.
• Nutrient export and rational fertilization. A contemporary consideration for agricultural practice . Paul Parey Berlin 1907.
• Utilization of potash in industry and agriculture. An economic study in four sections . Publisher W. Knapp Halle 1908.
• Agricultural Chemistry . Publishing house Teubner Leipzig 1911; 2nd edition verb. Edition ibid. 1920 = From nature and the spiritual world, vol. 314.
• Soil maps and other cartographic representations of the factors of agricultural production of different countries . Publishing house Paul Parey Berlin 1928.
• Agricultural maps as documents for economic, economic-geographic and cultural-historical studies . German publishing company Berlin 1933.
• Man and clod. Maps on the history and geography of the cultural soil . Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin Vol. 1, 1936; Vol. 2 1939.
• The Parent Company Enigma: A Study of d. Early epoch d. Performance u. Position d. Woman , among colleagues. by Maria Krische, Munich: Georg Müller 1927
• Marx and Freud: New Ways in World View a. Ethics d. Freethinker , publishing house f. prolet. Freethinkers, Leipzig 1924

literature

• JC Poggendorff: Biographical-literary hand dictionary of the exact natural sciences Vol. VI, 1937, pp. 1408-1409 u. Vol. VIIa, part 2, 1958, pp. 918-919 (list of publications).
• Volkmar Sigusch , Günter Grau (ed.): Personal Lexicon of Sexual Research , Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2009 ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Krische in the catalog of the German National Library