Management of the Rittergut Leutewitz near Meißen in Saxonia, which his great grandfather had bought in 1764; leaseholder of Gut Löthain and Gut Sornitz; continues the beet breeding which his father Christian Adolf Leberecht Steiger began in 1825; build-up of the famous Leutwitzer Merino-Vollblut-Stammzucht (thoroughbred breeding).
