Gottfried Averdunk

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Gottfried Averdunk (born June 30, 1934 in Testorf-Steinfort , Kr. Grevesmühlen , Mecklenburg; † February 9, 2011 in Munich ) was a German animal breeding scientist.

Life

Averdunk was born in Northwest Mecklenburg, had to leave the parental farm in the Soviet occupation zone with the family after the end of the Second World War and graduated from high school in Petershagen / Weser in 1955 . This was followed by a two-year successful agricultural apprenticeship and from 1957 to 1960 the study of agricultural sciences at the University of Göttingen with the examination as a qualified farmer . In 1962 he received his doctorate at Fritz Haring Dr. agr. and underwent training as an animal breeding assessor in the Weser / Ems and Osnabrück area. Thanks to a Kellog scholarship, Averdunk was able to take a one-year additional course of studies at Cornell University in Ithaka , New York, with Charles Roy Henderson (quantitative genetics) and SR Searle (experimental design and statistics) from 1963, and thus the latest findings in animal breeding and Provide breeding programs.

In November 1964 he moved to the Bavarian animal breeding administration, initially in the animal breeding office in Weilheim and from April 1, 1965 to June 30, 1999 in the Bavarian State Institute for Animal Breeding (BLT) in Grub b. Active in Munich - most recently as head of the animal genetics and data processing department and deputy to the president with the rank of chief agricultural director.

Volunteering

  • Long-standing member of the genetic-statistical committee of the German Society for Zuchtungskunde (DGfZ)
  • Member and Secretary of the Genetics Commission of the European Association for Animal Production ( EVT / EAAP)
  • Chairman of the Committee on Breeding Values ​​of the Association of German Cattle Breeders (ADR)
  • Co-founder of Interbull, Sweden, and longstanding German member of the steering committee of this organization
  • Member of the genetics commission at the German Hybrid Pig Breeding Center (federal hybrid breeding program)

Fonts (selection)

  • Station testing of bull mothers as a method of breeding value estimation of bulls: a population genetic consideration. Diss. Agricultural Faculty Göttingen, 1962, 97 pp.
  • Pig production in line with the market. With Hermann Bogner, Hamburg: Parey, 1982.
  • Adolf-Köppe-Nadel for President a. D. Dr. Alphons Gottschalk, In: Zkde
  • Simmental cattle: development into a world breed. Munich: blv, 2001. 286 p .;
  • Obituary for Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Horst Kräusslich , 2010

Awards / honors

  • Honorary plate from the Bavarian State Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests.
  • Medal of Honor of the Association of German Cattle Breeders (ADR)
  • 1999 Dr. Dürrwaechter Memorial Prize from the Bavarian Cattle Breeders Association. V.
  • 1999 Big Lion of the Association of Bavarian Breeding and Insemination Organizations (ABB)
  • 2007 Hermann von Nathusius Medal in Gold from the German Society for Breeding Science (DGfZ)
  • Awards from the European Association for Animal Production (EVT / EAAP )

Appreciation

  • In his 34 years of fruitful work at BLT Grub, Averdunk has made great merits in Bavaria and the Federal Republic of Germany by implementing new scientific findings, especially in the animal species beef and pork:
  • Cattle breeding
    • Development of modern insemination breeding programs for Bavaria
    • Support for the further development of the Brown Swiss breed through targeted animal imports for crossbreeding and performance improvement
    • Support with the introduction of the BLUP breeding value estimation
    • Definition and inclusion of all important characteristics - also functional and meat performance - in the breeding value estimation
    • Demand for a uniform breeding value estimation for each cattle breed in Germany
    • Commitment to the recognition of Interbull as a reference center for the breeding value assessment of cattle within the European Union
    • Organization of a division of labor for the breeding value estimation for Simmental and Brown Swiss cattle between Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg
    • Inclusion of German Simmental and Brown Swiss cattle in the international breeding value test with joint bull test
  • Pig breeding
    • Scientific advice on the introduction of the federal hybrid breeding program for pigs (as early as 1970)
    • Development of estimation formulas for the apparatus-based carcass classification in pigs
    • Consideration of parameters of meat quality and texture
  • Animal breeding
    • Establishing scientific contacts with colleagues in Central and Eastern Europe
    • Over 100 scientific and many practical publications

literature

  • Hermann von Nathusius Medal for Dr. Gottfried Averdunk. In Zkd. 71, 1999, 6, 405-406
  • Ludwig Reiner : Gottfried Averdunk said goodbye to retirement. In: Zeitschrift für Agrarinformatik, issue 4/1999, p. 82
  • Dr. Kay-Uwe Götz: Obituary for Dr. Gottfried Averdunk, 1934–2011. In: Zkde, 83, 2011, 3, 165–166
  • Richard Pichler: In memoriam Dr. Gottfried Averdunk. In: Fleckvieh Austria informed, 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the Association of German Cattle Breeders (ADR)
  2. ^ Previous holders of the Hermann von Nathusius Medal of the DGfZ
  3. ↑ Obituary in breeding customers
personal data
SURNAME Averdunk, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animal breeding scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Testorf-Steinfort , Kr. Grevesmühlen , Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2011
Place of death Munich