World Head

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31365, 10 May 1967, Page 23

World Head

The president of the World Ploughing Organisation, Mr Walter Feuerlein, is an expert in the field of soil cultivation. He has been a match ploughman and judge and for many years a ploughing match administrator.

Mr Feuerlein was bom in Stuttgart in South Germany—the home of Mercedes, Robert Bosch and Zeppelin, etc., in 1903. The holder of a master of arts degree in agriculture from Berlin University, he has had wide experience in farming and allied fields. He began as a farm apprentice and later farmed in North Dakota in the United States of America and then in Germany. Subsequently he served as a farm machinery expert in Austria. The author of books and lecturer on soil cultivation and implements, Mr Feuerlein has been for 20 years a research worker on soil cultivation practices in the Farm Research Centre at Voelkenrode.

Mr Feuerlein has been a competitor in ploughing matches and head judge at German Federal ploughing contests since 1953. He was organiser of the first German ploughing match in 1950 and became foundersecretary of the German Ploughing Council this year. He has been a director of the governing board of the World Ploughing Organisation since 1952 and chairman since 1956. A married man with four children, Mr Feuerlein is chairman of the Feuerlein clan of about 3000 relatives, and is district chairman of the association of old fraternity graduates from German universities.