Willi Taschenmacher

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Willibald "Willi" Taschenmacher (born December 30, 1902 in Danzig ; † December 6, 1988 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German soil scientist .

Life

Taschenmacher studied agriculture at the Technical University of Danzig since 1924 and did his doctorate there in 1929 under Hermann Stremme with the dissertation Development of soil geological mapping and the possibilities of its practical performance. With the example of the floor survey of the Krzyzanki manor . He then worked in the financial administration of the Free State of Gdansk , where he continued to deal with questions of soil mapping and soil valuation. From 1934 to 1937 he was an assistant to Emil Woermann at the Institute for Farm Management at the University of Halle . During this time, at the suggestion of the crop scientist Ernst Klapp, he wrote the book Outline of a German Field Soil Science . In this work, published in 1937, he worked out new knowledge about the location characteristics of agricultural crops in an original way.

After working for several years at the state planning office in Münster , Willi Taschenmacher joined Walter Rothkegel in 1942 in the soil appraisal department of the Reich Ministry of Finance in Berlin. After 1945 he initially worked as a private scholar. From 1952 to 1968 he worked in the Federal Ministry of Finance. Most recently, as a ministerial advisor, he was in charge of the evaluation of agriculture, horticulture and forests . During this time he published numerous articles on soil classification and soil mapping.

Fonts

  • Development of soil mapping of farms and the possibilities of their practical performance. With the example of the floor survey of the Kryzanki manor. Dissertation. Weg, Leipzig 1930.
  • with Heinrich Herzog : soil assessment (= reports on agriculture. Special issue; NF, 63). Parey, Berlin 1932.
  • Ground plan of a German soil science. Origin, characteristics and properties of the soils in Germany, their investigation, mapping and assessment in the field and their suitability for the cultivation of agricultural crops (= writings on modern agriculture. H. 8). Ulmer, Stuttgart 1937.
  • The soils of the Southern Mountains (= Spieker: Landeskunde articles and reports. H. 6). Published by the Geographical Commission, Münster / Westphalia 1955.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Taschenmacher, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taschenmacher, Willibald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soil scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1988
Place of death bad Godesberg