Theodor Brinkmann

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Johann Heinrich Theodor Brinkmann (born April 24, 1877 in Marl , † August 11, 1951 in Bonn ) was a German agricultural scientist .

Life

Family and education

Born Catholic Theodor Brinkmann, born in Marl, son of the farmer Johann Theodor Brinkmann (1843–1922) and his Scholven- born wife Josefine, born Strangemann (1852–1919), turned to the Rheinische Friedrich to study agriculture and economics after graduating from high school -Wilhelms-Universität Bonn as well as at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena , where he acquired the academic degree of Dr. phil.

In 1915, Theodor Brinkmann married Charlotte, who was born in Neuenahr and was the daughter of the medical adviser Wilhelm Nießen. From this marriage came two sons and a daughter. Brinkmann died in Bonn in the summer of 1951 at the age of 75.

Professional career

After completing his studies, Theodor Brinkmann received a position as a scientific assistant at the Agricultural University in Poppelsdorf near Bonn, where he qualified as a professor in 1908 in the field of agricultural management. In the same year Brinkmann took over the representation of the chair from Friedrich Aereboe , in 1911 he was appointed full professor and institute director, in 1945 briefly rector of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. In 1948 he was at the Agricultural Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn, which in 1934 emerged from the Agricultural University Poppelsdorf emeritus . In addition, he was employed as an agricultural expert in North and South America in 1925 and from 1928 to 1930 .

Theodor Brinkmann, who received an honorary doctorate from the agricultural faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in 1947 , made particular contributions to the treatment of agricultural management as a systemic science.

Theodor Brinkmann Prize

The Theodor Brinkmann Foundation eV, founded in 1977 at the University of Bonn, awards him the Theodor Brinkmann Prize for “outstanding scientific or practical experience” in the field of agricultural economics . Prize winners were:

Publications

  • The development of pig breeding in Denmark, dissertation , Merseburg, 1906
  • Danish agriculture: the development of its production since the appearance of international competition and its adaptation to the world market by means of cooperative organization, G. Fischer, Jena, 1908
  • The economics of the agricultural enterprise, Tübingen, 1922
  • Farm management and money management of the farmer under the sign of currency devaluation, P. Parey, Berlin, 1923
  • From the operation and organization of American agriculture, P. Parey, Berlin, 1927
  • Lines of development and development possibilities of agricultural production in Argentina , P. Parey, Berlin, 1930
  • The crop rotation of German arable farming, University of Bonn printing house Gebrüder Scheur, Bonn, 1943

literature

Footnotes

  1. ^ Theodor Brinkmann Prizes , accessed on February 8, 2018.
  2. ^ Prize winners , accessed on February 8, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Brinkmann, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brinkmann, Johann Heinrich Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Marl
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1951
Place of death Bonn