Georg Erhardt (doctor)

Georg Jakob Erhardt (born November 30, 1950 in Langenau ) is a German agricultural scientist and veterinarian . He is professor i. R. for Animal Breeding and Genetics at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Nutritional Sciences and Environmental Management of the University of Giessen .

Live and act

Georg Erhardt, grew up on a smallholder business, studied after secondary school and an apprenticeship at the Hohebuch domain (with Hans-Ulrich Hege ) from 1969 to 1972 agriculture at the Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences and graduated as a graduate engineer (FH). This was followed in 1972 by studying veterinary medicine at the Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen with the state examination and licensing as a veterinarian (1977). Erhardt then started working as a research assistant in the Biochemical Genetics working group at the Institute for Animal Breeding and Domestic Animal Genetics in what was then the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Breeding at JLU. In 1981 he received his doctorate here. med. vet., became a university assistant, later an academic councilor and qualified as a specialist veterinarian for breeding hygiene and insemination.

This was followed in 1991 by the habilitation and the award of the Venia legendi for "animal breeding and husbandry biology" at the new department of agricultural sciences at JLU, in 1992 a substitute professorship for animal husbandry at the University of Kiel and in 1993 for animal breeding back in Giessen. In 1994 Erhardt became full professor and chair for animal breeding and domestic animal genetics in the institute of the same name in the new department of agricultural sciences, nutritional science and environmental protection at JLU and in 1999 managing director of his institute. He turned down calls to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel for the Chair of Animal Husbandry (1992), to the University of Bonn to the Chair of Animal Breeding and Animal Husbandry (1993) and to the University of Rostock to the Professorship for Animal Husbandry under simultaneous management of the Research Institute for the biology of farm animals (FBN) in Dummerstorf (2002). He was the test manager of the Rudlos teaching and research facility (1994–2009) and head of the Oberer Hardthof teaching and research station (1994–2016). On April 1, 2016, he entered retirement.

Appreciation

In his research, Erhardt dealt primarily with classical genetics, genome analysis, the molecular aspects of individual zootechnical characteristics and with biodiversity. In the recent past, milk protein variants, their importance and use for animal breeding and human nutrition have been of interest. It was also about the breeding possibilities of disease prophylaxis for couple tuberculosis, scrapie and dead limbs as well as the elucidation of the genetic involvement in various diseases of farm and leisure animals. His research was characterized by a high level of interdisciplinarity, including biotechnology, national and international cooperation partners, and strong acquisition of third-party funding.

Erhardt taught the students from both departments - agriculture including nutritional science and veterinary medicine. He was involved in more than 300 publications in scientific journals, presented the results at over 390 national and international conferences and thus contributed significantly to the rapid transfer of new findings into practice. He supervised 56 doctoral candidates (Dr. agr .; Dr. oec. Troph; Dr. med. Vet.) And 2 post-doctoral candidates.

Honorary positions

Erhardt has held numerous honorary positions in national and international scientific societies.

Particularly noteworthy are:

• Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Protection at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (1996–1997)
• Chairman of the Society for Animal Science eV (2007-2014)
• Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG, 1988–1996)
• Co-Editor (from 1994), then Executive Editor of "Animal Breeding and Genetics" (1998–2006)
• Member of the Presidium of the German Society for Breeding Science ( DGfZ )
• Board member of the umbrella organization for agricultural research (DAF),
• Member of the Collaborative Research Center "Land Use Concept for Peripheral Regions"
• Member of the graduate school "Molecular Veterinary Medicine"
• Member of the Permanent Committee for Applied Genetics in Farm Animals (WCGALP, 2002–2010).
• Member of the project "Functional Genome Analysis in Animal Organisms (FUGATO)"
• Expert in the agricultural research working group of the Science Council (2004–2006)
• Member of the scientific advisory board of the Max Rubner Institute, Federal Research Center for Nutrition and Food (MRI, 2009–2016)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Yak-Kamel-Foundation (since 2011)
• Chairman of the local association Watzenborn-Steinberg of the Heimatvereinigung Schiffenberg eV (since 1988)
• 2nd chairman of the Hessian Association for Dance and Costume Care (HVT, 1994–2003)

honors and awards

• 2014 Awarded the Hermann von Nathusius Medal of the German Society for Breeding Science

Publications (selection)

• Relationship between citrate and lactoferrin in the milk of lactating and non-lactating cows and after experimental infection of the mammary glands with Staphylococcus aureus. Dissertation . FB Vet.medizin, Uni Gießen, 1981. Parey, 1981.
• Possible applications of high-resolution electrophonic separation processes for zootechnical issues. Habilitation thesis Univ. Giessen, FB Agricultural Science, 1991. Giessen, Wiss. Fachverlag, 1991.
• Professor Gerald F. Stranzinger: a domestic animal genomnics pioneer with a wide range of interests: (on the occasion of his retirement at the 31st of March 2005). Edited by Georg Erhardt, Berlin. Blackwell Wiss.-Verlag, 2005.
• With Christina Peter: One sheep is like another!? : The genetic diversity of Europe's sheep in the focus of molecular geneticists. In: Mirror of Research. Science magazine of JLU Giessen, 23, 2007, pp. 76–82.
• Transferrin variants in sheep: Separation and characterization by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing. In: Anim. Genet. 17, 1986, pp. 343-352.
• Molecular genetic diagnostics in farm animals. In: H. Geldermann (Ed.): Tier-Biotechnologie. (= UTB. 8283). Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart, 2005, pp. 485-494.

Web links

• Animal breeding website at the University of Giessen

literature

• Heiner Niemann, Otto-Werner Marquardt : Awarding of the Hermann von Nathusius Medal to Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Georg Erhardt. In: Breeding Science. 87, 2015, 1, pp. 1–2.
• Giessen animal breeding scientist honored. Press office of JLU Giessen No. 178 from October 1, 2014.
• Prof. Dr. Georg Erhardt. In: labor & more.
• Christina Peter, Georg Erhardt: One sheep is like another!? In: Mirror of Research. Science magazine of JLU Giessen, 23, 2006, No. 1/2, p. 81 (box)
• DGfZ: Prof. Dr. habil. Georg Erhardt said goodbye to his retirement. In: Breeding Science. 88, 2016, 3, pp. 233-239.
• Georg Erhardt: personal. Information as of February 9, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Erhardt on the website of the University of Giessen
2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Georg Erhardt. In: labor & more
3. ^ Announcement from JLU Giessen on the award from Georg Erhardt
4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Georg Erhardt in Spiegel der Forschung pdf accessed on February 7, 2017.
5. ↑ One sheep is like another!? : The genetic diversity of Europe's sheep in the focus of molecular geneticists. With Christina Peter pdf. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
6. ^ Georg Erhardt at the German Society for Breeding Science
7. ↑ Presentation of the Hermann von Nathusius Medal to Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Georg Erhardt