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Karl Otto Pfau Retires

Dr. K. Otto Pfau, Professor of Dairy Husbandry, Rutgers—The State University, New Brunswick, N. J., retired effective July 1, 1964. He was born January 29, 1900 in the village of Neckargartach, State of Wuerttemberg, West Germany. He studied at the Hohenheim Agricultural College (1918–1921) specializing in Animal Husbandry. From 1924–1928 he held positions as fieldman and as secretary of the cattle breeders' association—Fraenkisch-Hohenlohescher Fleckviehzucht-verband, Schwaebish Hall.

Dr. Pfau immigrated to the United States in 1928 and became a citizen of the U.S. in 1934. In 1932 he married W. Auguste Otterbach. They have a daughter, Charlotte and two sons, Frank and Robert. He received the B.Sc. degree in 1931, the M.Sc. degree in 1933, the Ph.D. degree in 1947, all from Rutgers University. He was appointed Assistant Professor at Rutgers University in 1947, Associate Professor in 1949 and Professor in 1958. In his career at Rutgers he has been on the resident staff of the Rutgers Dairy Research Center of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Sussex, New Jersey.