Bernd Hertle

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Bernd Hertle (* 1962 ) is a German horticultural scientist . The internationally recognized expert on perennials has been teaching and researching as a professor at the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences since 1996 .

Life

Bernd Hertle was technical director of the Weihenstephan viewing garden from 1991 to 1996 , on which he also wrote his dissertation.

Bernd Hertle initially worked on facade greening projects in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1988 to 1991 he worked at the Palmengarten in Frankfurt am Main and from 1991 to 1996 technical director of the Weihenstephan viewing garden .

With the dissertation mulch materials in perennial plantings. He received his doctorate in 1995 from the University of Hanover under Hans-Joachim Liesecke , investigating the effects on plant growth, soil, weed flora and care requirements in the Weihenstephan garden .

In 1996 he accepted the call from the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences and took over the field of outdoor ornamental plants in the horticulture course. As a professor, he teaches perennial and woody studies as well as garden design . Hertle was also involved as dean of the horticultural and food technology faculty. From 2003 to March 2007 he headed the newly established institute for horticulture at the State Research Institute for Horticulture Weihenstephan. Here he had initially by the former CSU -Landesregierung and its agriculture minister Josef Miller implement restructuring decided what also staff cuts meant. The aim was to merge eight former institutes into one unit and to attract more third-party funding in the future . Under Hertle's leadership, the institute's third-party funding income almost doubled between 2003 and 2007.

During Hertle's tenure there were also significant innovations in the Weihenstephan Gardens. Among other things, the vegetable part of the allotment garden was relocated and rebuilt, and a complete redesign of the Oberdieck garden began. In October 2006 Bernd Hertle took over the management of the Weihenstephaner Gardens as the successor to his teacher Peter Kiermeier . He was faced with the challenge of maintaining and further developing their recognized high level in view of the job cuts at the research institute at the time.

In 2010 he also took over the management of the technical advisory board of the Hermannshof show and viewing garden in Weinheim .

Hertle made a name for himself in horticultural circles above all as a specialist in perennials . Since 1997 he has headed the “Perennial Sighting” working group in the Association of German Perennial Gardeners (BdS) , of which he is also a member. As the head of the working group, he primarily implemented changes in the screening , which made the evaluation system more transparent and the results comprehensible. This was widely accepted in the industry. The Association of German Perennial Gardeners awarded him the BdS badge of honor for this in 2009.

From 1998 to 2005 Hertle was also in charge of the international perennial register and from 1998 to 2006 he was President of the Commission for Plant Analysis of the International Perennial Union (ISU) .

He is also known to a broader audience beyond the German-speaking area through his advice on garden flowers. This is how they bloom most beautifully. Portraits and care instructions for popular garden flowers and attractive green plants (1993). The successful manual, which was created in collaboration with Peter Kiermeier and the photographer Marion Nickig , has also been translated into English , Finnish , Dutch , Czech and Lithuanian, among others .

For gravel gardens - blossom without watering (2010) he was awarded the German Garden Book Prize 2011 in the category “Best Advice”.

Fonts

  • The trees in the open ground of the Palmengarten , Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main 1990
  • together with Peter Kiermeier and Marion Nickig : Garden flowers. This is the best way to bloom Portraits and care instructions for popular garden flowers and attractive green plants. With design ideas for large and small gardens , Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 1993 ( ISBN 3-7742-1796-3 ) English, Finnish, Dutch, Czech, Lithuanian (several editions, later by the same authors under the title Das Großes GU- PraxisHandbuch Gartenblumen , Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8338-0704-6 or ISBN 3-8338-0704-0 )
  • Mulch materials in perennial plantings. Investigations over several years in the Weihenstephan viewing garden on the effects on plant growth, soil, weed flora and care requirements , dissertation, University of Hanover 1995 (in print as issue 42 of the series Contributions to spatial planning , Institute for Green Planning and Garden Architecture, Hanover 1995, ISBN 3-923517-29- 7 )
  • Perennials outdoors , Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • together with Gisela Zinkernagel, Josef Sieber and Hans Simon : BdB-Handbuch III "Stauden" , 20th, modified edition, Österreichischer Agrarverlag, Vienna 2006 ( ISBN 3-7040-2196-2 )
  • Gravel gardens - floral splendor without watering , Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2010 ( ISBN 978-3-8338-1971-1 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c N.N .: Scientific management of Weihenstephaner Gardens changes. Prof. Dr. Peter Kiermeier places the scientific management of the Weihenstephaner Gardens in the hands of Prof. Dr. Bernd Hertle  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the Weihenstephan Research Institute for Horticulture from October 1, 2006; Retrieved April 14, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hswt.de  
  2. ↑ a b short portrait at www.gartenpraxis.de ; Retrieved April 14, 2011
  3. ↑ a b c Viola Stiele: Change at the head of the Institute for Horticulture  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Press release of the Research Institute for Horticulture Weihenstephan from March 1, 2007; Retrieved April 14, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hswt.de  
  4. ↑ a b N.N .: Professor Dr. Bernd Hertle honored by the Association of German Perennial Gardeners. Perennial gardeners pay tribute to the perennial inspection  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ZVG / BdS press release of January 29, 2009; Retrieved April 14, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stauden.de  
  5. ↑ later editions under the title Das Große GU-PraxisHandbuch Gartenblumen
  6. ↑ NN: The Most Beautiful Garden Books 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article from February 20, 2011 at www.buchjournal.de; Retrieved April 14, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.buchjournal.de  
personal data
SURNAME Hertle, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horticultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962