Dyckerhoff, Hermann Karl Heinrich

Graduate farmer

Born: 01.06.1902 in Biebrich

died: 21.03.1976 in Soest

After leaving school, Dyckerhoff completed a two-year agricultural apprenticeship on the Wahrenholz/Weser estate. This was followed by studies at the agricultural colleges in Munich and Berlin, from which he graduated with a degree in agriculture in 1926. After completing an eight-month study trip through the USA and Canada in 1927, he took over the management of the "Dyckerhoff'schen Gutsverwaltung Hesslerhof" estate in Mainz-Kastel in 1928, a position he held until his retirement in 1958.

The Hesslerhof estate (125 ha) included the raw material site of the Amöneburg plant. After 1948, the farm was fully motorized and converted to the production of preferred milk. Dyckerhoff was chairman of the "Bundesverband Deutscher Vorzugsmilcherzeuger", from 1964 chairman of the board of trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Agricultural Work and Technology in Bad Kreuznach and since 1962 deputy chairman of the Hesse Industry-Agriculture Working Group. He also worked in the Federal Association of the German Cement Industry as a member of the working committee "Concrete in Agriculture" and in the VDI Commission "Air Pollution Control".

After the death of his brother Hans Wilhelm Rudolf Dyckerhoff, he continued work on the supplement to the family chronicle from 1970. Dyckerhoff was very musical; social life at the Hesslerhof was musically influenced by concert appearances by well-known artists. From 1962, he was chairman of the Association of Artists and Friends of Art Wiesbaden e.V.