Wilhelm Rimpau (District Administrator)

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August Wilhelm Rimpau (* July 24, 1814 in Braunschweig, † January 14, 1892 in Langenstein)

August Wilhelm Rimpau (born July 24, 1814 in Braunschweig ; † January 14, 1892 in Langenstein ) was a German farmer, businessman and politician.

Rimpau pioneered the introduction of the drill and hoe culture and mineral fertilization according to Liebigs theory in practice as well as in the fight against lung disease in cattle . As a member of the Royal Prussian Landes-Ökonomie-Collegium and the Central Commission for the Regulation of Property Tax, he was actively involved in the progressive development of agriculture in Prussia .

Life

August Wilhelm Rimpau was the son of the businessman Arnold Rimpau from Braunschweig . After attending the grammar school, Rimpau began an agricultural training in 1830 and went "... to Prussia, where I took over the agricultural carrier with the Royal Supreme Administrator Dörge in Groß Ammensleben near Magdeburg ..."

In 1835 he traveled to Belgium and various parts of Germany to study and in 1838 leased the Prussian domain Schlanstedt in the Halberstadt district , which he managed himself until 1865 and developed into a model business according to Albrecht Daniel Thaer's "principles of rational agriculture" .

In Schlanstedt in 1839 he built one of the first sugar factories in the province of Saxony and in 1840 he began selective breeding of sugar beets. In 1855 Rimpau bought the manor Langenstein near Emersleben , which was previously owned by the von Reinecke family . In 1860 he bought the Anderbeck monastery (leased to his son-in-law Otto Beseler ) and in 1869 the Emersleben manor (leased to his son-in-law Ferdinand Heine ), as well as the cuckoo mill in Huy-Neinstedt . In 1865 he handed over the Schlanstedt domain to his eldest son Wilhelm Rimpau for management .

From 1866 to 1878 he was district administrator of the Prussian district of Halberstadt , for many years chairman of the "Agricultural Association for the Principality of Halberstadt and the County of Wernigerode" and vice director of the agricultural Central Association of the Province of Saxony. In 1878 he retired to his estate Langenstein, whose representative castle he and his wife Sophie nee. Bode lived in.

As a member of the Royal Prussian Landes-Ökonomie-Collegium from 1859 to 1879 and the Central Commission for the Regulation of Property Tax, Rimpau was actively involved in the assessment of the soil quality for the creation of the land cadastre in various areas of Prussia. In the “Curatorium of the Friedrich Wilhelm Victoria Foundation” he promoted the exchange of agricultural experts, particularly with England.

In 1885 he left the Emersleben estate to his son Hans Rimpau (1854–1919). August Wilhelm Rimpau and his wife Sophie Rimpau, b. Bode, eight children in total: Arnold Diedrich Wilhelm , Elisabeth, Marie, Emilie, Rudolf, Margarethe, Hans , Hermann.

For his services he was appointed Prussian Privy Councilor. His grave is in Langenstein Park .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae. (Proof of citation: LHASA, MD, Rep. H. Langenstein, No. 634)
  2. ↑ History Long stone on www.halberstadt.de, accessed on 30 March 2019
  3. ^ Matters of the Curatorium of the Friedrich Wilhelm Victoria Foundation. (Proof of citation: LHASA, MD, Rep. H. Langenstein No. 192)
  4. ↑ Biographical Lexicon for the History of Plant Breeding, 1st episode. Society for Plant Breeding Issue 50 of the Lectures for Plant Breeding Göttingen 2000. ISSN  0723-7812 .

Fonts

  • Wilhelm Rimpau, 1857: The deep culture. In: Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt (Wernigerode location) H 137 Gutsarchiv Langenstein: "AW Rimpau: private correspondence 1858/59".
  • Wilhelm Rimpau. The management of the Domaine Schlanstedt and the associated Vorwerk Neudamm. Braunschweig, Meyer. Updated by W. Rimpau (Sohn): The management of a Prussian domain in the 19th century . In: Mentzel & Lengerke's Agricultural Calendar II, 1 - 51.

literature

  • Carl Leisewitz:  Rimpau, August Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 396-398.
  • Wilhelm Rimpau (1994): The Rimpau family in the Magdeburg Börde. In: Bruno J. Sobotka (Ed.): Castles, palaces, manor houses in Saxony-Anhalt. Theiss, Stuttgart pp. 152-160.
  • Wilhelm Rimpau: The pioneers of 'rational agriculture' in the Magdeburger Börde. Work and impact of father and son Wilhelm Rimpau. (1836 to the establishment of the German Agricultural Society in 1885). In: THAER TODAY. Volume 10 (2015), pp. 69-85.
  • Albrecht Meinel: Departure into scientific plant breeding. The contribution by Wilhelm Rimpau (1842–1903). Lectures for Plant Breeding (Ges. F. Plant Breeding Göttingen) H. 76 (2008), ISSN  0723-7812 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rimpau, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rimpau, August Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and farmer
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1892
Place of death Langenstein