1899 after an apprenticeship in agriculture, studies of economics and agriculture at the University of Halle/Saale (uncompleted); further self-education in plant breeding; studies of seed breeding enterprises Beseler-Weende, Kirsche-Pfiffelbach and von Lochow-Petkus; After 1900 plant breeding activities; 1913 after his father's death taking over the family agricultural enterprise; 1914 begins to breed peas as feed for animals; 1932 forced sale of the enterprise; same year re-purchase and reorganiaztion and abandoning of plant breeding activities; 1945 dispossesion; 1952 flight to West-Germany.
