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Kober Franz

Klosterneuburg The Austrian viticulture expert Ing. Franz Kober (1864-1943) attended the Oenological and Pomolgian Institute at the viticulture school in Klosterneuburg. He graduated from the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna with a teaching qualification in viticulture, cellar management and fruit growing. He then worked for several years as a vine grower in Romania and in Burgenland Rust. In 1893, he became head of phylloxera control for Lower Austria at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, based in Klosterneuburg.

Kober 5 BB - Unterlagengarten von Franz Kober 1930 und Trauben

He worked together with the then director August-Wilhelm Freiherr von Babo (1827-1894). He selected some rootstock vines in a vineyard at the Klosterneuburger Weinbauinstitut and, in collaboration with the Hungarian vine breeder Zsigmond Teleki (1854-1910), created the Kober 5 BB (also known as "5 BB" or "Teleki 5 BB") named after him. This became one of the most successful rootstocks, on which numerous other rootstocks bred worldwide were based. Kober was also extensively involved in teaching about grafting, planting and looking after vines in vineyards.

He invented a patented injector for the so-called Kultural method (combating phylloxera by injecting liquid carbon disulphide into the soil) and recommended the erection of cardboard screens to protect against May frosts. He also published numerous papers, for example "Schlüssel zur Lösung der Rebenhybriden-Frage für Kalkböden in Österreich" and "Über das Vortreiben veredelter Reben". Franz Kober received numerous honours for his great services, including the Gold Medal of Honour of the Republic of Austria, the Babo Medal and the Rasch Medal. In 1984, a bronze plaque was erected in his memory at the Institute of Viticulture building in Klosterneuburg.

Picture left: By unknown, postcard Geisenheim, GFDL 1.2, Link
Image on the right: By Joachim Schmid, Geisenheim, CC BY 3.0 de, Link

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