Wilhelm Heuckmann

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Wilhelm Heuckmann (* 14. May 1897 in Kleve ; † 1. May 1954 in Bonn ) was a German wine and the first Secretary of the German Winegrowers' Association .

Professional Activities

Heuckmann came from a family of teachers . After participating in the war , he completed an internship in viticulture . He then became an apprentice in viticulture and cellar management at the Geisenheim teaching and research institute , which he completed in 1922 with a degree in agriculture at the Agricultural University in Bonn. He completed this course with a doctorate.

He found his first job at the Vines Refining Institute in Oberlahnstein . Equipped with this experience, in 1931 he was appointed head of the Bernkastel-Kues State Vine Growing Institute as the successor to Johannes Fuess. Just four years later he was appointed to the viticulture department of the Reichsnährstand in Berlin, where he was made head of department in 1935.

During this time he was responsible for the organization of the International Viticulture Congress in 1939. The congress was to be combined with a conference of the International Organization for Vine and Wine in the autumn of that year in Bad Kreuznach . Teaching and special shows for viticulture and oenology should doactically bring the entire process chain from cultivation to marketing closer. Because of the outbreak of war two days earlier, the congress had to be canceled.

After the end of the war, Wilhelm Heuckmann worked temporarily at the Wirth winery in Wöllstein , Rheinhessen, and later worked for the district government in Koblenz . When the working group of the German Viticulture Associations in Frankfurt am Main became active in 1948, he took over its management. When the German Viticulture Association was re-established on May 31, 1950, Heuckmann was appointed General Secretary at the suggestion of Count Richard Matuschka-Greiffenclau and Albert Bürklin .

He was responsible for organizing the German Viticulture Congresses in Bad Kreuznach in 1950 (patron Theodor Heuss ) under the difficult post-war conditions and in 1952 in Freiburg im Breisgau . In the course of his professional life he wrote numerous publications.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Nickenig : 100 Years of the German Viticulture Association, writings on the history of wine from the Society for the History of Wine No. 181, Wiesbaden, 2013, p. 19
  2. ↑ Den German throats in: Der Spiegel 40/1950
  3. ↑ Rudolf Nickenig, 100 Years of the German Viticulture Association, writings on the wine history of the Society for the History of Wine No. 181, Wiesbaden, 2013, p. 19
  4. ↑ Bibliography on the history and culture of wine
personal data
SURNAME Heuckmann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first general secretary of the German Viticulture Association
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleve
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1954
Place of death Bonn