Heinrich Birk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German university teacher (1898-1973)
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Place of Birth: Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
About Heinrich Birk
- Heinrich Birk (1898 – 1973) was a German viticulturist.
- He was head of the Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute.
- Heinrich Birk studied philosophy at the University of Giessen after his initial graduation 1920-1923 in agronomy at the university of Bonn and after 1924 in addition to an initial position on the domain Steinberg, Kloster Eberbach.
- He received his doctorate in this subject in 1929.
- At this time he was already two years as clerk at the Geisenheim Research Center at the Institute of vines finishing as an assistant to Professor F.
- Muth.
- 1939 he became head of the Reichs-Rebenzuchtstation (Reichs-vine breeding station).
- He had to quit a year later because of his compulsory military service.
- 1945 Birk returned and devoted himself in postwar reconstruction. Heinrich Birk gained reputation for the cultivation of some new grape varieties by cloning Riesling and crossing with other varieties.
- Birks idea was to create an early ripening wine compared to the traditional Riesling.
- So he directed experimental plots emerged with Arnsburger, Breidecker, Ehrenfelser, Hibernal, Osteiner, Reichensteiner, Rotberger, Schönburger and Witberger. Some of the grape varieties bred by Heinrich Birk at the Research Institute Geisenheim : Arnsburger, Ehrenfelser, Gutenborner and Rotberger.
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