Wilhelm Müller-Lenhartz

Wilhelm Müller-Lenhartz

Wilhelm Müller-Lenhartz (born May 26, 1873 in Gut Marienthal, Hanover , † November 8, 1952 in Leipzig ) was a German agricultural scientist and politician (DNVP).

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Wilhelm Müller-Lenhartz was born Wilhelm Müller in 1873. He got his second surname by changing his name in 1912. He passed the Abitur at a grammar school in Lüneburg. After that, he initially worked in agriculture in order to study agriculture, economics and natural sciences at the University of Leipzig from 1897 . Following his studies, which he completed in 1900 with the diploma examination (qualified farmer), Müller-Lenhartz received a position as an assistant at the Leipzig Land Institute. In 1902 he received his doctorate. phil. Soon afterwards he also became head of the institute's experimental operations, an activity he was to pursue for twenty-three years. In addition, Müller-Lenhartz, who had been married since 1911, also lectured as a private lecturer at the Dresden University of Veterinary Medicine , where he presented his habilitation thesis in 1917.

During the First World War and in the post-war period, Müller-Lenhartz was responsible for the meat supply in Saxony. After the conclusion of the Versailles Treaty , Müller-Lenhartz was appointed Reich Commissioner for deliveries under the Versailles Treaty. In this capacity he was responsible for the organization and supervision of the transfer of the German reparations payments (railway wagons etc.) to the victors of the world war.

After the end of the war, Müller-Lenhartz also joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). In November 1932 he was elected as a candidate for the DNVP for constituency 29 (Leipzig) as a member of the Berlin Reichstag , of which he was a member until March 1933. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

Since 1921, Müller-Lenhartz also held a professorship at the University of Leipzig . In addition, Müller-Lenhartz came out publicly through various publications on topics such as the nutrition of farm animals, milk hygiene and agricultural policy. Some of his writings have even been translated into foreign languages.

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• How does the farmer appropriately feed beet leaves? , 1908.
• Basic features of an economic diet for dairy cows , 1909.
• Hygienically perfect milk, its production, its treatment and its value , 1914.
• The Advances in Agricultural Science in Its Relationship to , 1917.
• The production of plant nutrients in the German Empire , 1917.
• The nitrogen cycle , 1917.
• The food supply in Germany after the war , 1918.
• The Development of Agriculture , 1918.
• Agriculture and Reconstruction. Thoughts on Politics and Economics , 1923.
• Hygienic milk production with special consideration of vitamins , 1925.
• The development of agriculture in the 19th century , 1927.
• The Economic Diet of the Chicken , 1930.
• The highest milk yield , 1930.
• For feeding the fur animals, especially the farm foxes , 1930.
• The Basics of Agricultural Production , 1931.
• The highest egg production , 1932.
• Why is the birth rate falling in the West? , 1940.
• Da Kokosi Nesu Više Jaja , 1942.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Müller-Lenhartz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wilhelm Müller-Lenhartz in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Wilhelm Müller-Lenhartz in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig