Gerd Crüger
Gerd Crüger (born July 2, 1928 in Königsberg ( East Prussia ); † November 11, 2019 in Braunschweig ) was an agricultural scientist and phytomedicist . He was in the BBA responsible (BBA) as Vice President of merging the testing institutions in West and East Germany.
Live and act
After the end of the war, Crüger came to Oldenburg, where he graduated from high school and then completed an apprenticeship as a gardener. In the fall of 1950 he began studying commercial horticulture at the Faculty of Horticulture and Regional Culture at the Technical University of Hanover, which he successfully completed in November 1953 as a certified horticulturalist. A study visit to England followed and he was employed as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Plant Diseases and Plant Protection at the Technical University of Hanover . With his dissertation studies on the importance of diffusion and adsorption for soil fumigation with chloropicrin , he completed his doctorate as Dr. rer. hoard. 1956 and got a job in the Oldenburg Plant Protection Office. There he mainly dealt with issues of fighting field veins in the Wesermarsch.
On February 1, 1958, Crüger joined the Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA) and took over the field of plant protection in vegetable growing . In 1966 he was able to switch to civil servant status, was appointed senior scientific adviser in 1959, head of his institute in 1970, scientific director in 1971 and director and professor in 1975. With the relocation of his facility from Fischenich to Braunschweig, he also took over the BBA Institute for Plant Protection in Ornamental Plant Cultivation from Berlin-Dahlem and headed the Institute for Plant Protection in Horticulture at the new location. With the restoration of German unity, the state plant protection from both parts of Germany was brought together again. Branch offices in Kleinmachnow (resistance testing) and in Dresden-Pillnitz (soil fatigue and replication problems) were attached to the institute headed by Crüger.
At the end of July 1993, Gerd Crüger retired after 35 years of service.
Special honors
The Central Horticultural Association awarded him the Ernst Schröder Medal in 1993 in recognition of his services to German horticulture. In 1995 he was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of his special services. For his services to applied phytomedicine, Crüger was awarded the DPG's badge of honor by the board of the German Phytomedical Society (DPG) in 2001, and the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) awarded him the JKI's badge of honor in 2014.
literature
- Theophil Gerber: Personalities from agriculture and forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - Biographisches Lexikon, NORA Berlin, 4th exp. Edition 2014, p. 126.
- Georg Backhaus and Martin Hommes: In memory of the director and Professor a. D. Dr. Gerd Crüger, b. on July 2, 1928, died on November 11, 2019. In: Journal für Kultur Pflanzen. 17 December 2019
Web links
- Georg F. Backhaus , Martin Hommes: In memory of the director and Professor a. D. Dr. Gerd Crüger on ojs.openagrar.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crüger, Gerd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German agricultural scientist, phytomedicist and Vice President of the BBA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königsberg (Prussia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 2019 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |