Norbert Becker (agricultural scientist)
Norbert J. Becker (born July 9, 1937 in Wiesbaden ; † May 7, 2012 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German agricultural scientist in the field of grapevine breeding and local viticulture.
Life
Becker spent his youth on a vineyard near Wiesbaden in the Rheingau . Even as a high school student he helped with the vine work and got to know the spirit of Rhenish wine happiness as a waiter in the estate's own wine tavern. After graduating from high school (1958) at the humanistic Dilthey-Gymnasium in Wiesbaden, he first became a Bundeswehr soldier and officer candidate , then completed a two-year apprenticeship in practical agriculture and studied agricultural science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen.
After the diploma examination (1964) he was assistant at the institute for fruit growing of the university and doctoral candidate at the research institute Geisenheim . After his doctorate as Dr. agr. 1968 he became a trainee lawyer at the Hessian Ministry of Agriculture.
At the beginning of 1970 he joined the State of Baden-Württemberg at the State Viticulture Institute in Freiburg . His areas of work were grapevine breeding and viticultural location studies. Under his leadership, numerous fungus -resistant new vines were grown , and when they are grown, spraying with fungicides can largely be dispensed with. The most promising of these new breeds, including those of his predecessor Johannes Zimmermann , were further tested after being tried and tested in the institute's plantations at wineries and brought to maturity. These are the white wine varieties Johanniter , Bronner , Solaris , Helios and the red wine varieties Prior , Baron , Monarch , Cabernet Cortis and Cabernet Carbon .
Becker was involved in the training of viticulture students and master winemakers. In his free time, he led full-day Saturday excursions on viticulture as part of the "Studium generale" of the University of Freiburg . Even in retirement, he continues to devote himself to his professional hobby, namely the cultural, historical and health aspects of wine.
Most important work
- Norbert Becker and H. Güss: Wine, joie de vivre and health. A wine specialist and medical guide for healthy wine consumption . 7th edition, Kehrer Verlag, Freiburg 1995, ISBN 3-929140-08-X
- Contributions to the viticulture textbook Vogt / Götz: Weinbau , Ulmer-Verlag, Stuttgart 6th edition 1977 and 7th edition 1987 or Vogt / Schruft: Weinbau , 8th edition, Ulmer-Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-5720-9
Almost 200 publications in scientific and audience-oriented magazines and approx. 500 lectures in front of specialist audiences and auditoriums interested in wine.
literature
- Manfred Raupp (Ed.): Current problems ochrana rastlin . Sympozium Stary Smokovec 1990 (Czech).
- Konrad Rühl; Staatliches Weinbauinstitut Freiburg (Ed.): Wine law to touch . Promoverlag, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-923288-29-8
- Ernst Vogt and Günter Schruft: Viticulture . 8th edition, Ulmer-Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-5720-9
Web links
- State Viticulture Institute Freiburg
- Julius Kühn Institute, Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof
- Documentation of viticulture research
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becker, Norbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Becker, Norbert J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German agricultural scientist in the field of grapevine breeding and viticultural site studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 2012 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |