Gerhard Röbbelen

Gerhard Röbbelen (born May 10, 1929 in Bremen ) is a German agricultural scientist.

Gerhard Röbbelen studied agriculture at the University of Göttingen and biology at the University of Freiburg . In 1956 he was in Freiburg with Friedrich Oehlkers Dr. rer. nat. doctorate, habilitated in 1961 in Göttingen in the field of “applied genetics and plant breeding”. From 1966 to 1967 he worked in the cytogenic laboratory in Columbia, Missouri. From 1967 he taught at the Institute for Plant Cultivation and Plant Breeding at the University of Göttingen. From 1970 until his retirement in 1994 he was director of this institute as the successor to Arnold Scheibe .

A special focus of his work was rapeseed research ; his best known colleague and colleague was Werner Thies .

Gerhard Röbbelen was President of the Society for Genetics from 1968 to 1970, President of the European Society for Breeding Research from 1986 to 1989, President of the German Society for Fat Science from 1989 to 1991 and President of the Society for Plant Breeding from 1991 to 1996 . He is a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the Leopoldina (since 1990).

Röbbelen is also honorary doctor of the University of Kiel , the University of Halle-Wittenberg and the Mendel University of Brno and has received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Web links

• Hartwig H. Geiger , Institute for Plant Breeding, Seed Research and Population Genetics, University of Hohenheim: Vita at Eucarpia.org

Remarks

1. ↑ Hartwig H. Geiger, Institute for Plant Breeding, Seed Research and Population Genetics, University of Hohenheim: Vita . Eucarpia.org, as seen January 26, 2011.
2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Röbbelen (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2016.