He worked at University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany from 1976–78, 1988–90 and 2007–11 in Maize breeding, genetics and Biotechnology.
After the duke had acquired the former manor of the Bombast von Hohenheim family, minor nobility - with Theophrastus von Hohenheim called Paracelsus as its most notable member - in 1768, he gave it to his mistress Franziska Leutrum von Ertingen, including the title of a Reichsgräfin von Hohenheim.
Margarethe Mathilde von Wrangell, after 1928 Princess Andronikow, née Baroness von Wrangell (7 January 1877 in Moscow – 21 March 1932 in Hohenheim) was a Baltic German agricultural chemist and the first female full professor at a German university.
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In 1920 she completed her Habilitation at the Agricultural University of Hohenheim with a dissertation on Uptake of Phosphoric Acid and Soil Reactions.
The Institute is organized as an association in which, in addition to the State of Baden-Württemberg and the City of Stuttgart, the Universities of Hohenheim and Stuttgart, the Fachhochschulen of Baden-Württemberg, German-American organizations, the U.S. Embassy in Germany as well as private persons and corporations are represented.
After he completed the adult education center in Langendreer he begann to study upon the agrarian high school Hohenheim in Stuttgart.