The eruption of the volcano Tambora in Indonesia at the start of April 1815 led to the worst famine of 19th century Europe two years later.
The effects of the Tambora eruption led to there being no real summer. King William I of Württemberg and his wife Catharine ascended the throne.
The famine years hit Europe hard after the year without a summer.
King William I and Catherine Pavlova founded the agricultural teaching, experimental, and model institute Hohenheim.
In the Hohenheim Farming Equipment Factory, scientists developed functional, scaled models of their devices that were then sent around the world.
Five years after the lower forestry school was founded, in 1825 the academic forestry education was added to it.
In one of the Palace’s Kavaliersgebäude buildings, a canteen for students of the Institute in Hohenheim was set up - the “Speisemeisterei”.
The Horticultural School joined with the Institute.
The Agricultural Institute is “promoted” to the Agricultural Academy by a decree from King William I of Württemberg.
The subjects offered at the Model Institute are expanded: Agricultural Chemistry is now included.
Ferdinand Cohen-Blind shot the Prussian Minister-President Otto von Bismarck on the street.
The later Nobel Prize winner Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen taught in Hohenheim.
The subjects offered at the Model Institute are expanded: Economics was now included.
From 1888 until 1967, there was a direct connection between Möhringen and the University campus.
To what extent did the University of Hohenheim and its members participate in the colonial efforts of the German Empire? Were colonialist ideologies actively supported and passed on in Hohenheim? These are the questions historian Dr. Regina Wick has been investigating as the new head of the Hohenheim University Archives. The Online Courier talked to her about the results over a cup of coffee.
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