Robert Gardener

Carl Julius Robert Gärtner (born January 9, 1894 in Freiburg , Province of Silesia , † November 8, 1951 in Göttingen ) was a German agricultural scientist and professor of animal breeding and dairy farming.

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Robert Gärtner was born in Freiburg (Lower Silesia) as the son of a later General Director and passed his Abitur examination here in 1912. From 1912 to 1914 he studied economics and agriculture at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Leipzig and Marburg . In 1914 he registered as a war volunteer, in 1915 he resigned from the army and began an agricultural apprenticeship. He then studied agriculture at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau and received his doctorate in 1918 at the agricultural department of the Philosophical Faculty. phil. This was followed by work at the Institute for Agricultural Animal Production Studies (Prof. Friedrich Holdefleiß , from 1920 Wilhelm Zorn ) with the habilitation in animal breeding (1922). As a private lecturer, he mainly represented the breeding of small animals and was appointed associate professor in 1928.

In 1931 he moved to the University of Jena , began at the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty established in 1925 as a permanent professor for animal breeding and director of the institute of the same name and was appointed full professor for animal breeding in 1932. In April 1933 he joined the NSDAP (membership number 3,078,234). When Gustav Frölich was appointed to Dummerstorf (1939), Gärtner was supposed to move to Halle. At first he resisted, but by order of the Ministry of Science he had to take the chair on a substitute basis. In 1941 he accepted the call as professor for animal breeding and head of the institute for animal breeding and dairy at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg .

After the end of the Second World War, Gärtner was dismissed from the university management in Halle for political reasons and moved to the University of Göttingen . Here he was full professor for animal breeding and director of the institute for animal breeding and dairy farming until 1951. He died at the age of 57 and his wife outlived him by 26 years.

Appreciation

• Wroclaw:
  • Animal breeding, specialty small animal breeding, research institute Kraftborn b. Wroclaw;
• Jena:
  • Animal breeding, animal feeding,
  • Examination boards for graduated farmers, practical farmers and candidates as animal breeding officials,
  • Joint work about the Thuringian agriculture as an important reference work for later interested parties.
  • Setup and evaluation of the stationary progeny testing of pigs at Gut Zwatzen
• Hall
  • Areas of expertise: animal breeding, keeping and feeding; Wool customer.
  • Main species: horses, cattle, pigs (Cornwall), sheep.
  • Use of the leased domain Lettin with stationary progeny testing of pigs for the province of Saxony and Hesse-Nassau as well as with parent breeding of the Cornwall and German noble pig breeds.
  • Publications in the Kühn archive.
• Goettingen
  • Animal breeding, animal husbandry, dairy farming.

Publications

• The German linen industry: its development before and after the outbreak of the world war. Diss. Univ. Leipz., 1918, 118 sheets.
• Sheep Breeding: An Instructional and Manual. Stuttgart: E. Ulmer, 1924, 201 p .; (Volume 4 of the animal breeding library near Ulmer: Editor: Prof. Wilhelm Zorn); 2nd edition, 1934; 3rd edition, 1950.
• Small animal breeding: (poultry, goat, bee and rabbit breeding). Stuttgart: E. Ulmer, 250 p .; Vol. 8 of the animal breeding library near Ulmer.
• Breeding Science: A manual of their general biological principles for farmers and students. Stuttgart: Ulmer, 1927, 377 pp.
• Thuringian agriculture: production bases, arable and livestock farming in pictures, words and numbers. W. Wilmanns with Robert Gärtner and Ernst Klapp. Jena: Agricultural Institute, 1933, 198 pp.
• Wool assessment, wool production and care. Berlin: Parey, 1935, 24 p. (DGfZ instructions, issue 35); 2nd ed., 1943. 30 pp.

literature

• Gerber, Th. In: Personalities from agriculture and forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - Biographical Lexicon. NORA Berlin, 4th ext. Ed., 2015, p. 221.
• Prof. Dr. Gardener. In: State Handbook for Thuringia. Weimar 1931, pp. 397, 400, 403 and 409.
• University archive Halle: Personnel file 6552 (R. Gärtner).

Web links

• Entry on Robert Gärtner in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis