Walther Hertzsch

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Adolf Walther Hertzsch (born October 13, 1901 in Zwickau , † 1975 ) was a German agricultural scientist and botanist .

Life

Hertzsch was born as the son of a secret government councilor in Zwickau, Saxony. There he also attended school until he switched to grammar school in Bautzen , which he graduated from high school in 1919. In November 1923 he began studying at the Agricultural Institute of the University of Göttingen .

Hertzsch did his doctorate in 1927 at the Agricultural University Berlin under Erwin Baur under the title Contributions to infectious chlorosis via marbled Abutilon forms. As a result of his studies, he was able to differentiate between two forms of chlorosis.

In 1933 he became head of the Klein Blumenau branch of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science, which was newly established by Erwin Baur . His tasks included testing plants for winter hardiness; for this he published his work on peas; and for varieties from the parent institute for further properties. In addition, he headed the forage plant breeding department, which focused on grasses and clover species. In this position he also wrote articles for the Reichsnährstand .

In 1935 he married Irene Marie Constanze Schultze-Naumburg, a daughter of Paul Schultze-Naumburg , in Salzburg. In 1941 Hertzsch was employed as a consultant in the Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO) in Riga in the research center of the Department of Food and Agriculture. There he also headed the new Laukischken branch of the Müncheberg Institute in the Labiau district in East Prussia. His deputy was Joachim Hackbarth . He was active in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and began in 1938 with experiments on species and genus hybridization of forage grasses.

After the war, Hertzsch last worked as a department head at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) in Cologne-Vogelsang .

Together with Werner Plarre , he published a number of articles on cultivated plants , such as: B. the white clover or the leaf cabbage .

literature

Publications (selection)

  • Contributions to infectious chlorosis , 1927, dissertation .
  • Infectious chlorosis , In: Der   Züchter 2/1930.
  • Grass breeding , In: Der Züchter 2/1930, pp. 182-186.
  • together with W. Feldt: Influence of nitrogen fertilization on the chemical composition and yields of individual grasses on dry, humus-poor mineral soil , In: Pflanzenbau 7, 1931, p. 365 ff.
  • together with W. Feldt, H. Lindemann and Erna Wedell: Chemical composition and yields of individual cultivated grasses on mineral soil , In: Scientific Archive for Agriculture, Department A: Archive for Plant Cultivation, Volume 6, 1931, pp. 1 ff.
  • together with W. Feldt: Purposes and goals of forage plant breeding, Zeitschrift für Züchtung, Series A, 18, 1933, p. 303 ff.
  • The tasks of the branch of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research in Kl.-Blumenau . In: Der Züchter 6, 1934, pp. 258 ff.
  • The East Prussian branch of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research . In: Naturwissenschaften 22, 1934, pp. 836 + 837.
  • Species and hatching crossings in grasses , In: Der   Züchter 10/1938, p. 261 ff.
  • : together with Hans Heyn pea species, pisum sativum L. and P. arvense L . In: Handbuch der Pflanzenzuchtung, P. Parey , 1943, pp. 1 ff.
  • I.a. Incarnate clover , Trifolium incarnatum L. In: Handbuch der Pflanzenzuchtung, P. Parey, 1958, p. 321 ff.
  • Genus crosses between the genera Festuca and Lolium . In: Der   Züchter 29/1959, p. 193 ff.
  • Bromus and Ceratochloa species . In: Handbuch der Pflanzenzuchtung, P. Parey, 1959, pp. 453 ff.
  • The importance of induced polyploidy in forage crop breeding . In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Grassland Congress, Reading , 1961, pp. 54 ff.
  • Polyploidy breeding in forage plants . In: Saatgut-Wirtschaft, Stähle & Friedel, 1961, p. 219 ff.
  • together with HB Schmidt, J. Richter and Maximilian Klinkowski : Investigations into virus-related necrosis on forage grasses . Phytopathologische Zeitschrift 47, 1963, p. 66 ff.
  • together with W. Nitzsche: chromosome reduction in the progeny of autopolyploidem fescue . In: Der   Züchter 36/1966, p. 240 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Contributions to infectious chlorosis , Berlin, 1927 curriculum vitae
  2. ↑ a b Saatgut-Wirtschaft, Volumes 13-14, Stähle & Friedel., 1961, p. 248. [1]
  3. ↑ Erwin Baur 1875-1935 , p. 53.
  4. ↑ Chronicle of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science , p. 69.
  5. ^ Ernst Telschow : Yearbook 1942 of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science , Leipzig 1942, p. 32.
  6. ^ Heinrich Parthey : Bibliometric Profiles of Institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Promotion of Science (1923-1943) . Max Planck Society, 1995. pp. 102, 145, 188.
  7. ^ Reports on Agriculture . Landswirtschaftsverlag, 1985, p. 326 ( google.de [accessed on April 9, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Plant cultivation: Monthly journal for the entire field of arable and plant cultivation and plant cultivation experiments . Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1935, p. 85 ( google.de [accessed April 9, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Schultze-Naumburg (actually Schultze), Paul Eduard German biography
  10. ↑ Rudolf Maier: From the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Crop Plant Research in the Vivarium (Vienna) and at Tuttenhof near Korneuburg (Lower Austria) to the Leibniz Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Gatersleben (FRG), p. 48. [2]
  11. ↑ Susanne Heim (Ed.): Autarkie und Ostexpansion. Plant breeding and agricultural research during National Socialism . Volume 2 of: Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science: History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-496-X , p. 53 u. 167 f. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  12. ↑ Carola Sachse (Ed.), Bernhard Strebel , Jens-Christian Wagner : Forced labor for research institutions of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. 1939-1945. An overview (= Research program History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism preprints ... = Research program History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the National Socialist era , Issue 11), ed. on behalf of the presidential commission of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science eV, Berlin: Research program "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism", 2003 (PDF file; 620 kB), p. 29. (preprints from the Research program "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism")
  13. ^ Reports on Agriculture . Landswirtschaftsverlag, 1985, p. 332 ( google.de [accessed April 9, 2020]).
  14. ↑ Saatgut-Wirtschaft, Volumes 17-18, Stähle & Friedel., 1965, p. 380. ( Online )
  15. ^ Journal . W. Kohlhammer., 1970, pp. 635 ( google.de [accessed April 9, 2020]).
  16. ↑ Bibliobiography of Plant Genetics , 1934, p. 196. ( Online )
personal data
SURNAME Hertzsch, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hertzsch, Walter; Hertzsch, Adolf Walther (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agronomist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH 1975