Thies Hinrich Engelbrecht

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Thies Hinrich Engelbrecht (born October 6, 1853 on the Obendeich farm near Glückstadt ( Schleswig-Holstein ); † October 18, 1934 there ) was a German agricultural geographer and farmer . He is considered to be one of the leading co-founders of agricultural geography as a scientific discipline.

Life path

Engelbrecht comes from a long-established farming family. He attended grammar school in Glückstadt from 1864 to 1873, completed an agricultural apprenticeship and then studied economics at the universities in Leipzig and Strasbourg . In his thinking he was strongly influenced by the writings of Johann Heinrich von Thünens .

In 1880 Engelbrecht decided to emigrate to the USA. He bought a farm in Iowa and learned about American agriculture on extensive trips. In 1885 he returned to Germany and took over his father's farm in Herzhorn . At the same time he was active in agricultural associations, in municipal bodies and in politics. As a free conservative MP, he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1895 to 1914 and of the Prussian mansion from January 27, 1914 to 1918 . After 1918 he devoted himself almost exclusively to his court and his private studies. His adopted son (great-nephew) Ernst Engelbrecht-Greve (1916–1990) was Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forestry of Schleswig-Holstein from 1962 to 1975.

Research activities

Since 1890 Engelbrecht has dealt intensively with scientific questions in the field of agricultural geography. His research focus was the regional distribution of agricultural crops and domestic animals. He wrote numerous treatises and published extensive cartographic works that had a decisive influence on the further development of agricultural geography. From 1900 to 1933 he was a member of the Presidium of the German Agricultural Society. In 1906 he founded a "special committee for climate and weather science" in this society, which he chaired until 1933.

Hardly anyone had worked on the border area between agriculture and geography as intensively as Thies Hinrich Engelbrecht. He is considered the nestor of agricultural geography in Germany. His scientific achievements received the highest recognition in the professional world. The University of Breslau (1911), the University of Kiel (1921) and the Agricultural University Berlin (1923) awarded him an honorary doctorate . On the occasion of his 70th birthday (1923), friends presented him with a bibliophile Festschrift with a selection of his own contributions and a complete list of the writings he had previously published.

Major works

  • The agricultural zones of the extra-tropical countries. Shown on the basis of statistical sources . 3 vols., Verlag Dietrich Reimer Berlin 1898 a. 1899.
  • The geographic distribution of grain prices in the United States from 1862 to 1900 . Paul Parey Berlin 1903.
  • Soil cultivation and livestock in Schleswig-Holstein according to the results of official statistics . 2 volumes u. Atlas. Published by the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Schleswig-Holstein Kiel in 1905 and 1907.
  • The geographic distribution of grain prices in India from 1861 to 1905 . Paul Parey Berlin 1908.
  • The field crops of India in their geographical distribution . Treatises of the Hamburg Colonial Institute, Vol. XIX, Hamburg 1914.
  • Agricultural Atlas of the Russian Empire in Europe and Asia . Publishing house Dietrich Reimer Berlin 1916.
  • The field crops of the German Empire in their geographical distribution . Berlin 1928 = work of the German Agricultural Society H. 357.
  • Selected writings by Dr. hc Th. H. Engelbrecht . Ceremony for his 70th birthday on October 6, 1923. Verlag Dietrich Reimer Berlin 1924.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 122 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 480-482.

literature

  • Richard Krzymowski: On the 70th birthday of the agricultural geographer Engelbrecht . In: Schlesische Zeitung No. 458 of September 30, 1923.
  • Richard Krzymowski:  Engelbrecht, Thieß Hinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 511 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Klaus-J. Lorenzen-Schmidt: Thies Hinrich Engelbrecht, farmer, politician, agronomist . In: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck Vol. 8, 1987, pp. 94-98.
  • Leo Waibel: The geographical life's work of Thies Hinrich Engelbrecht . In: Geographische Zeitschrift Vol. 41, 1935, pp. 169–180.

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personal data
SURNAME Engelbrecht, Thies Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agronomist and farmer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH at the Obendeich farm near Glückstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1934
Place of death at the Obendeich farm near Glückstadt