Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1977 - 35 Pfennig

Important Personalities, Edition 1977 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues four special postage stamps commemorating important personalities. No special first-day cover envelope Important figures 35-pfennig value: Albrecht Daniel Thaer A. D. Thaer (born on May 14, 1752 in Celle, died on October 28, 1828 in Möglin b. Wriezen) is one of the founders of the agricultural sciences. After studying medicine, earning a doctorate at the University of Göttingen and pursuing a longer medical career, he has been turning to agricultural questions ever since 1786. The previous findings of agricultural science are arranged by him exactly scientific and thus created crucial foundations for the system of modern agricultural sciences. The teaching institutes founded by him in Celle (1802) and Möglin (1806) became the model for academic agricultural education in many countries. Thaer also makes great contributions to the scientific foundation of agricultural experience, to the development of agricultural and plant engineering principles and the introduction of the first scientific principles into sheep farming. In 1804 he is appointed a member of the Berlin Academy. He is also a member of more than 30 other national and international academies and scientific societies. His scientific achievements, his materialistic spirit of research, his willingness to sacrifice social progress, have greatly enhanced the capitalist intensification of German agricultural production, and thus the rise of agricultural productive forces during the nineteenth century.