Personal and professional background
1958 |
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born in Alfeld/Leine |
1976 |
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Abitur at the Alfeld/Leine Gymnasium |
1976 - 1978 |
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Military service |
1978 - 1979 |
Agricultural internship | |
1979 1982 |
Agriclutural studies at the UAS Kiel, department of organic farming in Osterrönfeld, graduation as Dipl.-Ing | |
1982 - 1983 |
Agricultural manager at the agricultural operation Rolf Lass in Kronsburg | |
1983 - 1984 |
Chamber of Agriculture Schleswig-Holstein, department of arable farming and crop cultivation, employee in the field of research | |
1984 - 1987 |
Agricultural studies at Kiel University, field of crop production, graduation as Dipl.-Ing. agr. | |
1987 - 1988 |
Volunteer manager on farm Rolf Lass, Kronsburg | |
1988 - 1993 |
scientific employee and doctoral candidate at the Institute of Crop Science and Plant Breeding, professorship for grassland and forage cropping at Kiel University | |
1993 |
doctorate as Dr. sc. Agr. with the dissertation “Wachstumsanalytische Untersuchungen zur Dynamik der Qualitätsentwicklung von Deutschem Weidelgras und Knaulgras im Vegetationsablauf in Abhängigkeit von der Stickstoffdüngung und vom Standort” | |
1993 - 1997 |
Scientific assistant at the Institute of Crop Science and Plant Breeding, professorship for grassland and forage cropping at Kiel University (Prof. Kornher and Prof. Taube), working area “Entwicklung von Simulationsmodellen zur Ertrags- und Qualitätsentwicklung von Grünland- und Futterpflanzenbeständen“ | |
1996 - 1997 |
lectureship “Grassland Farming” at the Faculty of Agriculture at the UAS Kiel | |
1997 |
appointed as professor at the Faculty of Agriculture at the UAS Kiel in the discipline grassland farming, forage cropping, ecology and ecological farming | |
seit 2004 |
Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Agriculture at the UAS Kiel | |