Rudolf Salzmann

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Rudolf Salzmann (born January 2, 1912 in Bern , † March 30, 1992 in Zurich ) was a Swiss crop scientist . For more than three decades he worked at the Swiss Federal Agricultural Research Institute in Zurich- Oerlikon . His main field of work was potato growing .

Live and act

Rudolf Salzmann, son of a notary and inspector of the cantonal judiciary, completed an agricultural internship after attending a commercial school. After taking private intensive courses , he passed the entrance exam at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich in 1929 . There he studied agriculture and graduated as an engineer-agronomist in 1933 . He then worked for seven years as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Crop Production at this university. During this time he wrote his dissertation on the anthropochores of the Swiss grass-clover industry , with which he obtained his doctorate at ETH Zurich in 1939. Since 1941 he worked as a crop cultivation expert at the Federal Agricultural Chemical Institute (today Research Institute) Liebefeld - Bern .

In 1944, Salzmann took over the management of the potato growing section at the Swiss Federal Agricultural Research Institute in Zurich-Oerlikon. From 1951 to 1977 he was director of this research facility (1968 - after moving to a new building - name changed to: Research Institute for Agricultural Crop Production Zurich-Reckenholz). Salzmann's main interest was potato growing. His most important publication is the book "The most important diseases and pests of the potato and their control" , published in 1950 . It was widely distributed in German and French and was reissued in 1969.

Significant achievements for agriculture in Switzerland gained Salzmann with the introduction of clear rules in the recognition of seeds and seedlings . He played a key role in numerous domestic and foreign specialist organizations, above all in the Swiss Seed Breeding Association and in the Crop Production Commission of the Swiss Agricultural Association. From 1963 to 1966 he was President of the European Society for Potato Research . More than ten years he held as a lecturer at ETH Zurich lectures on the development of Meliorationsgebieten .

Books and writings

  • The anthropochores of the Swiss grass-clover industry, the dependence of their distribution on the hydrogen ion concentration and the dispersity of the soil with contributions to their germination biology . Association printing company Bern 1939. - Zugl .: Diss. Techn. University of Zurich 1939.
  • Current questions in Swiss potato growing . Swiss Federal Agricultural Research Institute Zurich-Oerlikon 1948.
  • The main diseases and pests of the potato and how to control them . Verbandsdruckerei Bern 1950. - 2nd edition under the title Diseases and pests of the potato (together with ER Keller). Agricultural teaching material center in Zollikofen 1969.

literature

  • R. Koblet: On the 60th birthday of Dr. Rudolf Salzmann . In: Swiss Agricultural Monthly Issues Vol. 49, 1971, pp. 393–395 (with picture).
  • F. Marschall: On the resignation of Director Dr. R. Salzmann . In: Mitteilungen für die Schweizerische Landwirtschaft Vol. 24, 1977, pp. 33–34.

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personal data
SURNAME Salzmann, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss crop scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1992
Place of death Zurich