Wilhelm Endemann (tobacco grower)

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Wilhelm Endemann (born March 31, 1902 in Suhl , Schleusingen district , † after 1963) was a German tobacco grower.

Life

Wilhelm Endemann studied agriculture . At the Friedrichs-Universität Halle he became a member of the RSC-Corps Franconia Halle in 1920. After graduating as a qualified farmer , he turned to tobacco growing . In 1933 he lived in Szczecin . In 1947 he became head of the agricultural department and later also deputy director of the Institute for Tobacco Research in Wohlsdorf and Biendorf (Bernburg) and Dresden . In his first years as head of the agricultural department, Endemann pushed the expansion of tobacco cultivation and the training of cultivation advisors in the GDR . Tobacco breeding soon became his main field of activity. With the introduction of the tobacco varieties Wohlsdorfer Burley in 1955 and Ergo in 1958, he prevented the collapse of tobacco cultivation in the GDR, which was massively endangered by the rib tan virus and tobacco blue mold . As an internationally recognized tobacco grower, he worked on international committees. He has published the results of his scientific work on questions of tobacco breeding in numerous specialist articles.

Fonts

  • Tobacco book , 1952 (leading contribution)
  • The tobacco plant , 1954
  • Tobacco cultivation and drying in the German Democratic Republic , 1963 (together with J. Merker and Carola Weidemann)

literature

  • Theophil Gerber: personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine. Biographical Lexicon. Volume 1: A-L. 3rd, exp. Edition. NORA Verlagsgemeinschaft Dyck & Westerheide, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-936735-67-3 , p. 168.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place of birth (and birthday) according to the register list of the Univ. Halle / S., No. 889.
  2. ↑ Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 1008
personal data
SURNAME Endemann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tobacco grower
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Suhl , Schleusingen district
DATE OF DEATH after 1963