Werner Wöhlbier

Werner Wöhlbier (born October 13, 1899 in Seggerde ; † April 26, 1984 in Stuttgart-Hohenheim ) was an agricultural scientist, agricultural chemist and feeding expert.

biography

Werner Wöhlbier was the son of Rector Wilhelm Wöhlbier and his wife Elvira nee Maise. He was the older brother of the mining expert Herbert Wöhlbier . After the First World War, Wöhlbier studied agriculture at the University of Halle - there he joined the Germania fraternity in 1923 - and in Stuttgart , where he became a member of the Hohenheimia fraternity . He received his PhD in 1925 at Theodor Roemer Dr. sc. nat. and was then research ring manager in Greifenberg in Pomerania for two years . From 1926 to 1929, he studied chemistry at the University of Breslau , received his doctorate there in 1929 with Paul Ehrenberg Dr. phil., then went to the Agricultural Research Station in Rostock and qualified as a professor at the University of Rostock in 1930 with a thesis on animal nutrition and physiology for agricultural chemistry. After the death of Franz Honcamp , head of the research station and professor at the university, Wöhlbier was appointed associate professor and director of the station in 1934.

In 1936 Wöhlbier accepted a call as professor for chemistry and animal nutrition at the Hohenheim Agricultural University , where he worked until his retirement in 1966. At the same time he headed the State Institute for Chemistry in Hohenheim, the institute in which the animal nutrition tests were carried out. Wöhlbier's research spectrum was very broad, it included basic research on animal nutrition, practical feeding issues and the preservation of feed.

Wöhlbier was co-editor of the magazines "Tierphysiologie, Tierernutrahrung und Futtermittelkunde" (from 1938) and "Landw. Research "(from 1949).

Main work

"Influence of growth on nutrition" in Ernst Mangold's Handbook of Nutrition and Metabolism of Farm Animals, Vol. IV.
Introduction to feeding theory in agr. Farm animals, 1949.
Die Technik des Tierversuches (Book of Methods, Vol. XIII), 1953.
The feed (ed., 2 vol.), 1963.

Awards

The University of Leipzig honored him with an honorary doctorate for Dr. agr. hc
He was a corresponding member of the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences (DAL) in Berlin.

Web links

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Gerber, Theophil: personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine; Biographical lexicon, NORA publishing group Dyck & Westerheide, Berlin, ISBN 3-936735-67-0 and additional information from Hartmut Boettcher , animal breeding manager in Weimar .
Kirchgeßner, M .: Professor Wöhlbier retired; Zuchtungskunde Volume 38, Issue 5/6 1966, pp. 193–194.
Winkel, Harald (ed.): Festschrift for Günther Franz history and natural science in Hohenheim; Verlag Thorbecke Sigmaringen 1982 ISBN 0-7181-2842-7 .
Our dead: Dr. hc Dr. hc Dr. phil. Dr. scient. nat. Werner Wöhlbier (Germania-Halle / Mainz 1921, Hohenheimia-Stuttgart 1923), professor, departed Stuttgart on April 26, 1984, in: Burschenschaftliche Blätter, vol. 99, 1984, no. 6, p. 191.
Gronbach, Günther: Werner Wöhlbier to commemorate, in: Burschenschaftliche Blätter, vol. 100, 1985, no. 6, pp. 189–190.

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 577.

personal data
SURNAME	Wöhlbier, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German agricultural scientist, agricultural chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 13, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Seggerde near Gardelegen
DATE OF DEATH	April 26, 1984
Place of death	Stuttgart-Hohenheim

[1] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 577.