Haßloch, Adam

Economist, Farmer

born: 09.08.1778 in Wiesbaden

died: 12.11.1842 in Wiesbaden-Adamstal

Haßloch acquired extensive knowledge of economics and agriculture through self-study. In 1804, he built the estate named after him, the Adamstaler Hof, on the "Müllerswiese" in the Kesselbach valley. He cultivated the land, planted large orchards and was granted a license to serve beer, wine, fruit and spirits as well as to set up a distillery.

In 1809, at the instigation of Karl Friedrich Justus Emil von Ibell, who later became President of the Government of Nassau, he received financial support from the Nassau State Government for his training in theoretical and practical economics at the Agricultural Institute in Hofwil near Bern. After his stay at the Swiss institute, Haßloch published a large number of educational papers on new cultivation and livestock breeding methods. In 1812-22, he became manager of the Gassenbach farm near Idstein with the task of developing it into a model agricultural estate.

In 1823, he returned to the Adamstal farm, where he ran a thriving inn in addition to farming and fruit growing. Haßloch continued the work begun at Hof Gassenbach to combine the theory and practice of agriculture and was instrumental in the introduction of agricultural reforms in Nassau. By 1844, the estate had already been converted into a boarding house.