Yamamoto Teijirō

Yamamoto Teijirō

Yamamoto Teijirō ( Japanese 山 本 悌 二郎 ; born February 10, 1870 in Mano (today's Sado ), † December 14, 1937 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese agronomist, businessman, parliamentarian and minister.

biography

He was born into a noble family, was predestined for a diplomatic career and studied in Germany from 1887 to 1893 with the aim of getting to know modern state administration and recent developments in agriculture and transferring them to Japan. As a student he joined the Academic Society Gemüthlichkeit , which was later renamed Corps Germania Hohenheim . On the basis of his very successful agricultural studies at the Hohenheim University of Applied Sciences , he received his doctorate magna cum laude from the University of Leipzig in 1894 on a cameralistic topic.

Back in Japan, as a businessman, he was instrumental in building up the private Japanese sugar industry and modernizing agriculture .

As a parliamentarian in the House of Representatives from 1904 to 1936 and as a two-time Minister of Agriculture, he promoted the transformation of partly feudal agricultural production structures and supported peasant capital formation and investments in order to modernize agriculture and to increase production and agricultural self-sufficiency in Japan.

As a private person, humanist and historian, Teijirō was also enthusiastic about Chinese history, wrote poetry and collected ancient Chinese manuscripts and paintings, which he also made available to the public. He remained closely connected to Germany throughout his life, was President of the German-Japanese Association from 1929 and died honored in Tokyo in 1937 .

Yamamoto's younger brother was the former Japanese Foreign Minister Arita Hachirō .

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• Eiermann, Paul: The history of Hohenheimer SC , 1961.
• Nagel, Friedrich: Die Leuchtturmgermanen , Germanenblätter Hohenheim, 2007
• Raupp, Manfred G .: Fox primer of the Corps Germania Hohenheim , 2006.

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Yamamoto is the family name, Teijirō the first name.