Wilfried Paulsen

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Wilfried Paulsen

Wilfried Paulsen (born July 31, 1828 on Gut Nassengrund near Blomberg in Lippe ; † February 2, 1901 there ) was a German potato grower . With its extensive range, it was considered the market leader for seed potatoes in Germany in the last decades of the 19th century .

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Wilfried Paulsen, son of a landowner , acquired extensive knowledge of the theory and practice of agriculture through self-study. In 1855 he inherited his father's 82 hectare Nassengrund estate and continued the potato cultivation he had started in 1846 . In 1864 he achieved his first partial success: the rearing of seedlings from self-fertilization . The first newly created variety under the name “ Erste von Nassengrund ” became a successful cultivar.

Paulsen founded a business for seed potatoes in 1864 under the name “Breeding and testing station for new potato varieties” . New varieties emerged in the following decades. The cancer-resistant, very early ripening table potato " Paulsen's July " has been one of the best-known potato varieties in Germany for many decades. Due to the exact testing of the varieties and the guaranteed delivery of the best quality seedlings, his company achieved world renown.

Paulsen has reported on his breeding attempts several times in specialist magazines, including the "German Agricultural Press". In 1894, the German Agricultural Society awarded him the Great Silver Prize Medal for his services as a pioneer in German potato breeding . In 1895 he was appointed economics councilor.

Paulsen comes from a chess-loving family. His brother Louis Paulsen (1833-1891) was a well-known chess master. Wilfried Paulsen was also a strong chess player, who won the Congress of the West German Chess Federation twice, achieved his highest historical rating of 2520 in May 1882 and was in twelfth place in the retrospectively calculated world rankings for a total of four months in 1870 and 1871, however, he only took part in a few tournaments in the last decades of his life.

literature

  • Oekonomierat Paulsen † . In: Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Presse , vol. 28 (1901), p. 159 (with picture), ISSN  0012-0405 .
  • Dr. Quante: Wilfried Paulsen, landowner, economics councilor . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog, Vol. 6 , 1901 (1904), pp. 423-424.
  • Kurt Ueberschär: History of potato breeding in Germany at the same time a historical contribution to variety science . Dissertation, Agricultural University, Berlin 1929, pp. 37–40.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried Paulsen's historical Elo numbers on chessmetrics.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Paulsen, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German potato grower and chess player
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Nassengrund, Blomberg
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1901
Place of death Gut Nassengrund, Blomberg