Robert Albert

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Robert Albert

Robert Edmund Konrad Albert (born March 11, 1869 in Biebrich , † November 26, 1952 in Eberswalde ) was a German forest scientist.

Life

Albert attended the Orange School (Wiesbaden) . After graduating from high school in the three emperor's year , he studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University . On April 28, 1888 he became active in the Corps Franconia Munich . The next year he moved to the University of Jena to become active in the Cartel Corps Franconia Jena . As a brilliant fencer he distinguished himself three times as consenior in Munich and Jena . He went to the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität as an inactive person and got involved in the pastor's daughter (Erlangen) . After the pre-exam he switched to theTH Hannover . Returned to Erlangen, he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. After four years as an assistant at the Chemical Institute, he moved to the Agricultural University in Berlin , where he completed his habilitation . In 1901 he followed the call of the Royal Forest Academy Eberswalde to its chair for chemistry and applied soil science . In 1914 he was one of the signatories of the declaration of university teachers of the German Empire . In 1926/27 and 1930/31 (for the 100th anniversary) he was rector of the academy. 1936 emeritus , he continued to hold special lectures. In the Second World War he took over the full management of the Soil Science Institute. At the end of the war, he left for Schleswig-Holstein; With his wife he returned to Eberswalde in 1946, where his house with the valuable library had burned down. The Soviet military administration in Germany pushed for the university to be rebuilt, so that Albert worked as a professor in the forestry faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin in Eberswalde until 1950 . Two years later he died at the age of 83.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Lutteroth I (ed.): Corps Franconia Munich. 350 semesters 1836–2011 . Munich 2011, p. 324 f.
  2. a b c Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 106/517; 26/451
  3. The Forestry Academy emerged from the Forestry Academy in 1921 and the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development in 2010 .
  4. Declaration by the university professors of the German Reich (PDF; 2.4 MB)