Wolfgang von Scharfenberg

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Wolfgang von Scharfenberg (born November 28, 1914 in Wiesbaden , † December 19, 2005 on the Kalkhof near Wanfried , Hesse) was a German farmer and sheep farmer; In 1983 he received the Hermann von Nathusius Medal .

origin

His parents were Otto Dietrich Daniel Heinrich Bodo WInfried von Scharfenberg (born June 23, 1882) and his wife Irma Theodora Katharina Luise von Knoop (born February 14, 1889). His father was a privy councilor as well as a lecturing councilor a. D.

Live and act

Wolfgang von Scharfenberg grew up mainly on his parents' Kalkhof on the B 249 near Wanfried. After the four years of primary school, he then attended the boarding school Schloss Bischofstein near Lengenfeld unterm Stein in the Thuringian Eichsfeldkreis. The latter was shaped by the pedagogues Gustav Marseille and Wilhelm Ripke (1886–1965), who offered their students “education as an aid to becoming”.

After graduating from high school, von Scharfenberg did practical years at the experimental farm for agricultural work Bornim near Potsdam at the Institute for Industrial Management at the Agricultural University in Berlin (from 1933 “Prussian experimental and research institute for agricultural work”). Here he learned the principles of organizing work processes and testing new techniques and processes in an agricultural business and graduated as a state-certified farmer. He completed his internship in a company near Sangerhausen am Kyffhäuser (Prov. Saxony). In the Second World War , von Scharfenberg finally served in the rank of Rittmeister in a reconnaissance battalion.

After Hesse was occupied by the American army, senior American and Soviet officers met at Kalkhof. On September 17, 1945, they concluded the so-called Wanfried Agreement , which provided for the exchange of territory between Hessian and Thuringian villages and thus reorganized the demarcation line to extend the railway line from Bremen or Hamburg via the Bebra junction to Frankfurt between the Bad Sooden stations. To withdraw Allendorf and Eichenberg (so-called "Whiskey-Vodka Line") from possible access by the Red Army.

In 1942 the Kalkhof farm, which had been leased until then, was transferred to Wolfgang von Scharfenberg. After his return from British captivity in the autumn of 1945, he took over the management of his parents' estate and continued to run it as an arable farm. The 400 hectares in Thuringia, including 100 hectares of arable land, fell under the land reform of the Soviet occupation zone. A further 60 hectares of arable land in Hesse were later given to the Hessian Settlement Society as part of the West German land reform for the evacuation of war-displaced farmers.

A flock of Merinoland sheep originally belonged to the Kalkhof. Over the years, this resulted in four main herds with great success, so that at times up to 2000 sheep grazed on the grassland. As early as 1956, lambs were sent to the new fattening performance testing station for sheep in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Rudolf Waßmuth was the head of the sheep breeding division at the time - and they were taken back into their own herd after being tested for their own performance. In addition, motherless lamb rearing was introduced into agricultural practice as a new process and good landscape maintenance was organized as an important part of sheep herding. Many individual and regular herd prices testify to the breeding successes of the Scharfenbergs and his manager Leo Schuler.

In 1980 von Scharfenberg consistently withdrew from the supra-regional obligations when he reached the age limit and spent 25 more quiet years at the Kalkhof. He died on December 19, 2005 with his family and was buried on December 23 in the family cemetery. In the meantime, sheep breeding on the Kalkhof and the grassland have been handed over to an independent sheep farm and the arable land has been incorporated into a GbR. Horse stables for pension animals have been expanded and holiday apartments have been set up on the Kalkhof.

Honorary positions

Through his passion for sheep breeding and equestrian sport as well as his convincing appearance in the committees, v. Scharfenberg soon elected to many honorary positions:

  • 1951–79 Member of the General Committee of the German Agricultural Society (DLG)
  • from 1953 member of the board there
  • 1967–79 he was one of the Vice Presidents of the DLG
  • Chairman of the DLG Sheep Breeding Committee
  • 1970–79 Chairman of the Association of German Sheep Breeding Associations e. V. (VDL)
  • 1965–81 President of the German Society for Züchtungskunde e. V. (DGfZ)
  • Vice President of the European Association for Animal Breeding ( EVT )
  • Member of the German delegation in the sheep and goat commission of the EVT
  • Vice President of the German Equestrian Federation (FN)

Appreciation

Wolfgang von Scharfenberg was one of the great personalities of German agriculture in the period after 1945. He was characterized by a high level of expertise, great sovereignty, outstanding negotiating skills and a keen sense of justice and goodness. He proved this in his successful and longstanding work in many voluntary committees of the profession, including 16 years as President of the German Society for Breeding Science. He received the Hermann von Nathusius Medal as one of the few practitioners that is actually only reserved for eminent scientists as an award.

Awards

literature

  • Obituary of the German Agricultural Society (DLG). In: DLG Annual Report 2005 , Appendix, p. 109.
  • VDL information: Wolfgang von Scharfenberg passed away. Publishing house Eugen Ulmer.
  • Ernst-Jürgen Lode: Obituary for Wolfgang von Scharfenstein. In: Zkde., 78, 2006, 2006, p. 89
  • German Agricultural Society: DLG-Mitteilungen, Volume 104, Issues 13-24. DLG-Verlag, 1989, p. 1145 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the "Hersfelder Zeitung" from December 22, 2005
  2. ^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1942, p.468
  3. ^ Wanfried Agreement
  4. ^ Previously distinguished honorary members of the DGfZ
  5. ^ Previous holders of the Hermann von Nathusius Medal
personal data
SURNAME Scharfenberg, Wolfgang von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and animal breeder
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 2005
Place of death Kalkhof near Wanfried