Alfred Stroppel

Alfred Stroppel (born July 22, 1934 in Berlin ) is a German engineer and agricultural scientist, particularly in agricultural engineering, he was a professor of process engineering in plant production at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering at the University of Hohenheim .

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After graduating from the Gaußschule in Braunschweig, Stroppel studied mechanical engineering, specializing in agricultural machinery, at the TU Braunschweig. From 1960 to 1967 he was a research engineer and senior engineer at the Institute for Agricultural Machinery at the TU Braunschweig . In 1067 he received his doctorate. Ing. At the same university in Braunschweig .

From 1967 to 1968 Stroppel was development engineer at Speiser in Göppingen and from 1968 to 1973 department manager at Fendt in Marktoberdorf . In 1973 Stroppel was appointed professor to the chair for process engineering in plant production at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering at the University of Hohenheim.

As part of the technology transfer project Baden-Württemberg , Stroppel was on leave as managing director for the development division of the tractor company X. Fendt & Co. In 1990 Stroppel returned to the chair at the University of Hohenheim and retired in 1996.

Main research areas

• Tillage and tillage technology; Plows, seedbed preparation implements; Mechanization of Wheat and Corn Production in Northern China; No-till corn; Tractor drive concepts; stepless gear; Tractor PTO; Slip control.

Self-management functions

Stroppel held the following positions in Hohenheim: 1983/1990/1991 Managing Director of the Institute for Agricultural Engineering; 1991–1994 Dean of Faculty IV (Agricultural Sciences II); Member of the Senate; Senate representative for the partnerships with Agrar-Univ. Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Agricultural Engineering Univ. Moscow; Assistance in the reconstruction of East German agricultural engineering institutes: Institute for Agricultural Engineering in Potsdam-Bornim , Institute for Agricultural Engineering at TU Dresden

Memberships and honors

• Chairman of the research and teaching group of the MEG
• 1996 Honorary Doctorate from the Agricultural University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
• 1997 Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Engineering - Moscow University
• 1997 Federal Cross of Merit (on ribbon of the Order of Merit)
• 2004 Honorary Professor at the Agricultural Engineering University of Moscow

Publications (selection)

• Stroppel, A .: Constructive problems in the mechanization of meal feeding. Basic D. Landt. No. 18, 1963. 41-49
• Stroppel, A .: States of tension in granular heaps of storage near a flat wall. VDI research booklet 525, Düsseldorf 1968. 40 pp.
• Stroppel, A .: A method for assessing soil cultivation methods with regard to the efficiency. Basic D. Landt. Vol. 27, 1977. 214-218
• Stroppel, A .: Mechanization of Wheat and Corn Production in Northern China. VDI / MEG Colloquium Agricultural Technology, Issue 15, Giessen 1993
• Stroppel, A., Görner, F .: A new eco-drive concept for the powerful tractor. Agricultural Technical Research 1, Issue 1, 1995. 34-45

literature

• Ulrich Fellmeth : The academic teachers at the University of Hohenheim Stuttgart 2008 (Hohenheimer topics, special volume, 15th / 16th year) Alfred Stroppel pages 429,430.
• Documentation for the celebratory colloquium on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. hc Alfred Stroppel on September 10, 2004. Self-published by Dettingen / Teck, 2005