Diedrich Smidt

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Diedrich Smidt (born July 14, 1931 in Breinermoor , East Frisia; † March 13, 2018 in Garbsen ) was a German veterinarian and agricultural scientist . He was professor emeritus for animal breeding and animal husbandry at the University of Göttingen and former director of the institute for animal breeding and animal behavior in Mariensee / Trenthorst of the Federal Research Institute for Agriculture in Braunschweig.

Live and act

Smidt was born the son of a farmer in East Friesland and passed the high school diploma in Papenburg (Ems) in 1950 . He then studied veterinary medicine at the TiHo Hanover (1950–1956). During his studies he became a member of the Burschenschaft Alt-Germania in the winter semester 1950/51 . He received his license to practice medicine as a veterinarian in 1956. In 1958 he was promoted to Dr. med. vet. PhD at Hans Butz in Hanover. He then became a practicing veterinarian in Dorum / Wesermünde with the insemination center (bull station) of the central insemination station in Bremen (1956–1959). He studied agricultural sciences at the Agricultural Faculty of the Georg-August University of Göttingen from 1959 to 1961 and was awarded a Dr. sc.agr. PhD. He became a research assistant at the Institute for Animal Breeding and Pet Genetics with Fritz Haring , completed his habilitation in 1965 and received the Venia legendi for Animal Breeding and Reproductive Biology as well as the appointment as a private lecturer at the University of Göttingen.

After several years as a university lecturer, in 1972 he became a full professor at the chair of animal breeding and husbandry at the University of Göttingen. From 1976 to 1995 he was head of the Institute for Animal Breeding and Animal Behavior with the institute parts Mariensee, Mecklenhorst and Trenthorst / Wulmenau of the Federal Research Center for Agriculture based in Braunschweig-Völkenrode, FAL, and until 1991 he held teaching positions in animal breeding at the University of Göttingen.

Act

Smidt established a reproductive biology working group at the institute in Göttingen. He participated in the transformation from a full-time to a group university with the development of a collegial institute structure, which later became a model for the amendment of the Lower Saxony University Act. He also promoted the development of the former Max Planck Institute for Animal Breeding and Animal Nutrition into the Institute for Animal Breeding and Animal Behavior of the Federal Research Center for Agriculture (FAL). Smidt brought about the cooperation with the animal breeding institutes Göttingen and Hanover in the allocation and supervision of dissertations. In addition, he cultivated international relations through specific scientific events and the mutual exchange of guest scientists.

Focus of work

Smidt participated in the breeding of the "Göttinger miniature pig". He examined the physiological basis for the performance, health and fertility of livestock as well as product quality. Above all, biotechnical processes in the context of reproduction were of particular interest. He combined disciplines within the framework of breeding, use and management with a holistic view of the animal. He also worked on new subject areas such as the biological basics of livestock ethology in connection with possible exposure limits, taking into account aspects of economic efficiency and with particular emphasis on animal welfare. In the context of animal welfare and use-related research on animal husbandry, he also dealt with questions of animal behavior.

Smidt is the author and co-author of 27 books and book chapters, 365 original papers and 200 review articles and specialist articles.

Publications

  • Is the multitude of titties in the bark a sign of fertility? . Dissertation TiHo Hannover, 1958.
  • Studies on sexual potency and heredity of fertility in pigs . Dissertation Agricultural Faculty Univ. Göttingen as Dr. sc. agr., 1962.
  • Reproductive studies in female pigs . Hab.-Schr. Landw. Fac. Gött., 1965, 155 pp.
  • Pig insemination: basics, technology, problems (with Siegried Paufler). Schaper, Hannover 1965. 376 pages with 176 illustrations in the text.
  • Reproductive biology of farm animals (with Franz Ellendorf). BVL-Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 1969, 313 pp.
  • Agricultural Textbook , Volume 6: Animal Breeding . Edit again u. exp. 5th edition, Ulmer, Stuttgart 1982, 552 pp.
  • Gene transfer at agr. Farm animals: a literature review (together with Andrea Lucas-Hahn and Heinrich Niemann). FAL, 1988, 74 pp.

Honorary positions

  • 1970/71 Dean of the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Göttingen
  • Vice-President of the Federal Research Institute for Agriculture for one legislative period
  • 1982/83 President of the Federal Research Center for Agriculture (FAL)
  • Editing and member of the editorial staff of several specialist journals, e.g. B. for many years also in "breeding science" (1979–1995)
  • 1977–1995 Member of the main committee of the German Society for Zuchtungskunde (DGfZ)
  • Membership in boards of trustees and advisory boards of various specialist institutes and foundations
  • Expert reviewer from the German Research Association (DFG)
  • Honorary positions in the field of the European Association for Animal Production (EVT)
  • 1996–1999 Chairman of the Academy for Veterinary Advanced Training (ATF) of the Federal Veterinary Association (BTK)
  • 1997–2006 member of the board of the H. Wilhelm Schaumann Foundation Hamburg

honors and awards

  • 1967 Honorary Member of the Mexican Society for Reproduction and Artificial Insemination
  • 1990 honorary doctorate to Dr. med. vet. hc by the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
  • 1995 Honorary doctorate from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
  • 1997 Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1997 Awarded the Hermann von Nathusius Medal of the German Society for Breeding Science (on September 8 in Münster-Handorf)
  • Appointment as a member of the Slovak Academy of Agricultural Sciences
  • Honorary professor at the Agricultural University of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, PR China
  • 2016 Honor for 55 years of membership in the DGfZ

literature

  • Theophil Gerber: Personalities from agriculture and forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - Biographisches Lexikon , NORA Berlin, 4th exp. Ed., 2014, (vol. 2, p. 742 f).
  • Hans-Jürgen Langholz , Philipp R. Prince of Solms-Lich : Hermann von Nathusius Medal for Prof. DDr. GDR. hc Diedrich Smidt , Züchtungskunde 69 (6) pp. 405-407, 1997 ISSN 0044-5401.
  • Erhard Kallweit: Prof. D. Smidt 65 years . In: Zkde , 68, 1996, 241-243.
  • Schulze, Wilhelm : Prof. Dr. med. vet. Dr. sc. agr. Dr. hc Smidt 60 years . In: Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift , 104, 1991, 291–292.
  • Prof. Diedrich Smidt turned 70 . In: Deutsche Tierärztliche Wochenschrift , 108, 2001, 317.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ obituary Diedrich Smidt on trauer.sueddeutsche.de from April 2, 2018
  2. ↑ Diedrich Smidt on the website of the FU-Berlin ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bib.vetmed.fu-berlin.de
  3. ↑ Tiedemann, Wehrend, D. Hebeler u. Niemann: Obituary for Prof. Dr. med. vet. Dr. sc. agr. Dr. agr. habil. Dr. hc mult. Diedrich Smidt. In: Deutsches Tierärzteblatt , 66, 2018, H. 5, 627
  4. ↑ Burschenschafter Stammrolle 1991. P. 138.
  5. ↑ Heiner Niemann: Obituary for Prof. Prof. hc Dr. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Diedrich Smidt, Mariensee In: Züchtungskunde , 90, 2018, 161–162
personal data
SURNAME Smidt, Diedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian, agricultural scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Breinermoor , East Frisia
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 2018
Place of death Garbsen