Andreas Büchting
Andreas Joachim Büchting (* 1946 ) is a German agricultural scientist and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of KWS Saat .
Life
Andreas J. Büchting's parents are Carl-Ernst Büchting and his wife Johanne , née Rabbethge. About both of them he is the descendant of the founder of KWS SAAT Matthias Christian Rabbethge .
He studied agricultural biology at the University of Hohenheim and at Cornell University in Ithaca . After completing his studies with a diploma, he completed a postgraduate course in economics at the Free University of Berlin . In 1977 , in addition to his work at KWS SAAT AG, he did his doctorate under F. Wolfgang Schnell at the University of Hohenheim with his dissertation Structural changes in a maize population after a selection cycle for combinability , a topic in the field of applied plant genetics.
In 1975 he started as a research assistant at KWS SAAT AG, but in 1978 he became a member of the executive board in succession to his father, and in 2008 switched to the management of the supervisory board. Between March 2005 and January 2009, Büchting was also a member of the Supervisory Board of Conergy AG.
Andreas J. Büchting is appointed Senator of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , without being a member, as well as Deputy Chairman of the Bioeconomy Research and Technology Council from 2009 to 2012 and member of the Indo-German Consultative Group (German-Indian advisory group).
Awards
- 1993: Lower Saxony Prize in the science category
- 2002: Honorary doctorate from the Georg-August University of Göttingen
- 2010: Arthur Burkhardt Prize from the Foundation for Science Promotion of the same name
- 2011: Honorary doctorate from the University of Hohenheim
- 2015: Aureus Gottingensis Medal from the Georg-August University of Göttingen
Fonts
- Structural changes of a maize population after a selection cycle for combinability. Dissertation University of Hohenheim, 1977.
- with Heide Inhetveen : Agriculture in today's China: impressions of a study trip. Soil and Health, Langenburg 1979, ISBN 3-921540-05-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Andreas Büchting in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bioeconomy Council report on plants pdf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Another change in the Supervisory Board of Conergy ( Memento from October 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Allocation of the sections to the classes ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 6, 2010
- ↑ Göttingen Agricultural Sciences award three honorary doctorates ( Memento from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Arthur Burckhardt Prize to Dr. Andreas J. Büchting ( Memento from February 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Bulletin of the Universitätsbund Hohenheim eV 41st year, June 2011
- ↑ http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html?cid=5383
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Büchting, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Büchting, Andreas Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German agricultural scientist and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |