Identifikationsbildung des organisch-biologischen Landbaus

Summary

The motivation to start practising organic farming is substantially initiated and
influenced by few charismatic personalities and role models. This can explicitly be
discerned when observing the origination of organic farming and subsequently the first
phases of development of the movement into various branches.
This paper examines what leading roles personalities as for example the pioneers of
the “Organisch-biologischer Landbau” Dr. Hans Müller, Maria Müller and Dr. Hans
Peter Rusch, played in creation of the identity for the movement and draws
conclusions in regards of modern ecological agriculture.
Recent interviews with those early stage protagonists of organic farming still alive as
well as with young “Bioland” practitioners deliver strong evidence that today there is a
growing interest to consider the foundations of organic farming and to further develop
it considering the microbiology of the soil as first Dr. Rusch had suggested.