Richard Römer (Agronomist)

Richard Robert Römer (born January 27, 1887 in Stettin , Western Pomerania, † July 8, 1963 in Karlsruhe ) was a German agricultural scientist , university professor and textbook author.

Live and act

Römer completed a three-year agricultural apprenticeship in Lovrecina on the island of Brac (Croatia), obtained the upper secondary qualification and studied agricultural science at the University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1904 to 1906 . This was followed by 2 years as an assistant to Alfred Beeck in the teaching and research institute for poultry breeding in Halle-Cröllwitz of the Chamber of Agriculture (LK) for the province of Saxony in Halle (Saale) and the completion of military service as a one-year volunteer in Aurich (East Frisia).

Römer then worked for 2 years as an inspector on an estate in Klein Sonnenberg (West Prussia). From 1912 he worked for poultry breeding organizations, from 1918 as institute director in the area of ​​the LK for the province of Poznan. This was interrupted by his participation in the First World War 1914–1918. After being wounded in the Battle of Tannenberg , Römer was sent to the General Command, where he coordinated the deployment of prisoners of war for agricultural work in the Poznan area.

In 1920 he moved from Posen back to the Provincial Saxon Institute in Halle-Cröllwitz and dealt increasingly with questions of poultry keeping and feeding. He soon became director of this facility as senior agricultural councilor and was given a part-time teaching position for poultry farming at the University of Halle. When the LK was reorganized and incorporated into the rural peasantry in 1933, Römer was released from his duties for politically motivated reasons. Therefore he became a private scientific advisor and continued to publish as a specialist author.

With the beginning of the Second World War , Römer was again drafted into the High Command of the Wehrmacht and appointed deputy head of the office responsible for looking after prisoners of war in German camps.

After a brief imprisonment, Römer began working at the successor to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Animal Breeding Research - the Central Research Institute for Animal Breeding - in Dummerstorf near Rostock as a department head for poultry and small animal breeding and acting administrative director of this institution. At the same time he was appointed professor with a teaching position for small animal breeding at the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Rostock . In December 1948 he moved to West Germany and last lived as an honored citizen and specialist author in Karlsruhe.

Römer was one of the most productive and influential poultry experts between the two world wars and for the decade thereafter. Based on his many years of experience and studies, he wrote several books as well as numerous articles and practice-oriented articles for various specialist journals and newspapers.

Publications (selection)

• Recent experiences and endeavors in the field of poultry farming. DLG, H., Berlin 22, 1921-1933. (4 editions)
• Practical poultry feeding. Formerly ed. by B. Blancke. 10th edition. Pfennigsdorff, Berlin 1950.
• Feeding the poultry. Part 1: General nutrition and assessment of the individual feed. 11th edition. 1954; Part 2: The Practice of Poultry Feeding. 11th edition. 1955.
• 25 years of teaching and research institute for poultry farming Halle a. S.-Cröllwitz, Institute of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Saxony. (= Work of the truck for Prov. Saxony. No. 27). Lwk publishing house. for the province of Saxony, Halle (Saale) 1926.
• with Lothar Weinmiller and Wilhelm Niklas: Farm poultry breeding and keeping. Ulmer, Stuttgart 1928 and 1931.
• Bookkeeping for poultry farming. 3. Edition. Pfennigsdorff, Berlin 1931.
• Poultry farming: Instructions for the expedient and profitable operation of simple poultry farming and husbandry. Formerly written by Burchard Blancke, later by Anton Croce. 12th edition. Pfennigsdorff, Berlin 1930.
• with Fritz Pfennigsdorff and Lothar Weinmiller: American Poultry Breeding: Report of the German Study Commission on the State of Poultry Breeding in the United States and Canada. F. Pfennigsdorff, Berlin 1929.
• Ways to make poultry farming profitable: Report on the experimental activity in the years 1926–1930. Pfennigsdorff, Berlin 1930.
• The Chicken on the Farm: A Guide to the Appropriate Rearing and Feeding of Chickens in the Country. 2nd Edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 1956.
• Poultry houses. DGfZ, Göttingen 1931.
• Rotation and hatching time in chicken husbandry: An investigation into the influence of the length of time in chicken husbandry on the amount of eggs and meat as well as on the consumption of feed ... Schöps, Leipzig 1937.
• Beneficial poultry farming. 5th edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 1953.
• with Lore Paret: geese and ducks. Ulmer, Stuttgart / Ludwigsburg 1948 and 1955.
• The chicken in the farm and in the settler business. Ulmer, Stuttgart / Ludwigsburg. (2 editions)
• The what and how with poultry: 790 questions and answers with pictures from the entire area of ​​poultry breeding and husbandry. 1952, 1959.
• The turkeys: breeding and keeping. Instructions for purebred poultry breeders, farmers, large farmers, hunting and forest owners. Oertel & Spörer, Reutlingen 1955.

literature

• Theophil Gerber: Personalities in agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - Biographical Lexicon. 4th, exp. Edition with addendum. NORA, Berlin 2014, p. 634.
• The professor and the prisoners of war. In: Baden's latest news. February 9, 1957.
• An eventful life: for Professor Römer's 75th birthday. In: Baden's latest news. February 9, 1957 from January 27, 1962.
• Karlsruhe City Archives: Messages from May 5, 2015 from the Karlsruhe death register.

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Römer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Richard Römer in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Römer entry in the Rostock professor catalog
2. ↑ Internet site of the Central Institute Dummerstorf