August Herold

August Karl Herold ( born August 7, 1902 in Neckarsulm, † January 8, 1973 ) was a German agronomist, Oberland Economic and vine growers. During his tenure at the Württemberg Institute for Grapevine Breeding and Rebenpfropfung and later at the State College and Research Institute for Viticulture and Pomology ( LVWO ), both in the vineyard, he grew so successful grape varieties such as the Kerner and spine fields.

Life

August Herold was born in Neckarsulm, the son of winegrower and farmer Josef Herold and his wife Josephine, born Benz. After graduating from high school in 1921 in Ehingen (Donau ), he started in the winter semester 1922 studying agriculture at the Agricultural University in Stuttgart -Hohenheim, which he completed in the summer of 1925 with a degree in agriculture. After working in the Palatinate and in Naumburg (State viticulture management; Biological Imperial Institute of Agriculture and Forestry, Department of grapevine breeding ) he took over on 1 August 1928, the line of the Württemberg Institute for Grapevine Breeding and Rebenpfropfung with his office in the vineyard and experimental and farms in Offenau, Gundel home and Lauffen. In the following decades Herold devoted himself to the preservation of traditional breeding Württemberg varieties and cross-breeding of new varieties.

1930 married Herold. With his wife Gertrude had two children. On 10 January 1941 he became a soldier and returned after three years of Soviet captivity in 1948 after vineyard. The Grapevine Breeding Institute had been a year earlier incorporated as a division of LVWO whose guidance he again took over.

In June 1964, Herold was appointed Deputy Director of the LVWO, but resigned at his own request due to his failing health on December 31, 1964 from the State service of. In the spring of 1965, he was honored for his services to the country's viticulture with the Federal Cross of Merit. He died on 8 January 1973 and is buried in Neckarsulm.

Important new varieties that emerged from Herolds work, Kerner, thorn fields Heroldrebe, Helfensteiner, Jewel include Of importance are also the herald achievements in the conservation breeding of the old Württemberg varieties (eg Trollinger ) and in the Grafting (experiments with grafting and rootstocks ).

Neckarsulm is a memorial plaque on the wine trail August Herold- road that lies on the southern slope of the mountain scrub, at him.