MADISON – Fritz Albert (17 February 1922 – 16 September 2012) died on Sept. 16, 2012, from complications related to living for 90 years.
In 1954 Fritz joined the Ag Journalism staff and stayed at UW the rest of his working life. In addition to Ag Journalism, Fritz worked with UW Extension and the Land Tenure Center ? issues of land ownership reform were very important to him. He eventually made full professor; this and all his promotions were earned entirely with his archetypical work ethic and artistic eye, as he never had the opportunity to pursue degrees beyond his technical school certificate. He was also active in efforts to promote understanding between Germany and the United States and those efforts earned him the Cross of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany….He had an extraordinarily rich career, making films on every aspect of agriculture from improving cheese production to agrarian reform in Chile. More than 80 of his films are in the University of Wisconsin Bureau of Audio Visual Instruction library.