Richard Meissner

Richard Meißner (born April 23, 1868 in Dessau , † January 12, 1938 in Heilbronn or Löwenstein - Lichtenstern ; also Richard Meissner ) was a German winegrower . He published several textbooks and handbooks on viticulture and from 1901 to 1923 headed the Württembergische Wein-Versuchsanstalt at the viticulture school in Weinsberg . As a co-founder and long-term chairman of the Weinsberg Justinus Kerner Association, he also dedicated himself to maintaining the memory of the Weinsberg poets Justinus Kerner and Theobald Kerner .

Life

Meißner attended middle school and secondary school in Dessau and graduated from high school in 1888 . He studied natural sciences in Halle (Saale) and was an assistant at the Botanical Institute there until 1892. In 1893/94 he completed his studies in Bonn and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In 1896 he became Julius Wortmann's assistant at the Geisenheim School for Fruit and Wine Growing , and in 1901 he was briefly head of the Bavarian School for Wine, Fruit and Horticulture in Veitshöchheim . In the same year he was appointed professor to the board of the newly founded Württemberg wine research institute in Weinsberg. He headed the institution until 1 March 1923 and devoted himself, among others in the wine industry to prevent and eliminate diseases of wine and wine faults as well as the research and treatment of vine diseases and Rebschädlingen. In addition to other publications, he edited several chapters in basic works on viticulture. From 1919 to 1927 he published ten textbooks and manuals. Meißner was a member of the Reich Committee for Wine Research.

Richard Meißner was also interested in culture and was one of the five initiators of the Justinus Kerner Association on New Year's Day 1905, which was founded in the same year in order to follow that of his father Justinus Kerner after the death of the very old Weinsberg honorary citizen Theobald Kerner, which was expected in the foreseeable future built Kernerhaus with his art treasures for posterity. Meißner took over the chairmanship of the association and negotiated with Theobald Kerner a right of first refusal for the association for the Kerner house, which passed to the association after Theobald Kerner's death in 1907. On May 29, 1908, Meißner resigned as chairman of the association and was made honorary chairman. After the early death of his successor Karl Burkhardt on April 4, 1916, Meißner de facto took over the management of the association again and supported the new chairman Albert Geyer until 1920. Meißner wrote several publications and for the Justinus Kerner Association and for the city of Weinsberg Articles about the city, its history and buildings as well as Justinus and Theobald Kerner. A chronicle of the city of Weinsberg from 1857-1926 , which follows on from the Weinsberg chronicle by Ferdinand Ludwig Immanuel Dillenius , remained unpublished, but is now available to the Weinsberg city administration in digital form.

After his departure from Weinsberg, Meißner could no longer be elected to the club committee. He died on January 12, 1938 and was buried on January 15 in the cemetery of the town of Löwenstein , where he had spent the last seven years of his life.

family

Meißner was married. The Justinus Kerner Association took over the sponsorship of his daughter Gretel Justina, who was born on September 18, 1906 at the same time as the general assembly of the association.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to Otto Linsenmaier, s. Web links
2. ↑ according to Entry on Richard Meissner in the personal database of the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography
3. ↑ Publications on viticulture by Richard Meißner in the bibliography on the history and culture of wine ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Used, for example, by Richard Hachenberger for the article on Immanuel Dornfeld among the personalities of the wine culture of the Society for the History of Wine.
5. ↑ Yearbook for the City of Weinsberg 2007. City of Weinsberg, Weinsberg 2007, ZDB -ID 717014-2 , pp. 59–60 ( online ( memento of the original from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) 

literature

• A hundred years in the spirit of Kerner. Justinus Kerner Association 1905-2005 . Justinus Kerner Association and Women's Association Weinsberg e. V., Weinsberg 2005

Web links

• Otto Linsenmaier : Meissner, Richard (1868–1938) among the personalities of the wine culture of the Society for the History of Wine