Hanns-Heinz Kassemeyer

Hanns-Heinz Kassemeyer (born July 21, 1949 in Tübingen ) is a German plant physiologist and phytomedicist at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , he was head of the biology department at the State Viticulture Institute Freiburg (WBI) and is division manager in the Interreg project Vitifutur, a transnational platform for research and application on sustainable viticulture with partner institutes from France, Switzerland and Germany. He is also a senior scientist for research and project consulting at the WBI.

Live and act

After attending grammar school in Tübingen, an apprenticeship as a gardener with a specialization in flowers and ornamental plants took place in the Stuttgart city nursery , graduating as a gardener in 1969. Kassemeyer did basic military service in Ulm on the Danube and in Landsberg am Lech from 1969 to 1971.

The study of horticulture at the Technical University of Munich in the field of plant sciences and phytopathology with a diploma followed from 1971–1976. This was followed by doctoral studies within the framework of graduate funding from the Technical University of Munich with a doctorate in agriculture. 1981. Topic of the dissertation. Megaspore development and fertilization biology of the grapevine . The habilitation for Dr. rer nat. habil with Venia legendi in plant physiology at the University of Freiburg took place in 2008.

After joining the WBI (1980) as a scientific employee, he carried out research on megaspore development and fertilization biology of the grapevine . Then Julius Kühn Institute Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants Braunschweig with the task of testing the biological effectiveness of plant protection products (1982).

Back at the WBI from 1985 to 2014 Head of the Phytopathology Working Group, Head of the Biology Department with the tasks of establishing phytopathological research; Establishment of serological and molecular diagnostic procedures; Establishment of applied research and development in the field of plant protection in viticulture .

Kassemeyer is an expert in the fields of biology and epidemiology of Plasmopara viticola and Erysiphe necator , host-pathogen interaction in grapevines (molecular, biochemical and cell biological level), phylogeny of resistant wild species of Vitis, biology and population genetics of wood-destroying fungi, molecular and diagnostic diagnosis phytopathogenic viruses and bacteria , connections between the structure of the epidermis and texture of the berry epidermis and susceptibility of the berries to pathogens .

He has been a lecturer since 1997 and apl. Professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, he continues to teach biology and taxonomy of fungi as well as an introduction to phytopathology.

Kassemeyer is married and has one child.

Engagements and memberships

From 1999 Editorial Board Vitis - Journal of Grapevine Research
From 2003 Editorial Board Protoplasm
1993–2003 Steering committee member and from 2003 Honorary Memberː The International Council for the Study of Virus and Virus-like Diseases of the Grapevine
From 1994 Organization committee International Workshop for Grapevine Downy and Powdery Mildew

1998–2004 member of the expert committee for the approval of plant protection products at the Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry in Braunschweig

2005–2015 member of the Natural Balance Advisory Board at the Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety

From 1982 member of the German Botanical Society

From 1982 member of the German Phytomedical Society

From 2001 member of The American Phytopathological Society

From 2006 member since 2016 Chairman of the Friends and Patrons of the Botanical Garden of the University of Freiburg

Since 2014 active as senior scientist at the WBI for the acquisition of research projects, work on the nanostructure of the berry surface and its chemical-physical properties as well as studies on the structure of wood of the grapevine (microscopy, computer tomography).

From 2018 Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg guest professorship Botanical Garden, Botany: Functional Morphology and Bionics Plant Biomechanics Group

Current work (selection)

INTERREG project VITIFUTUR Transnational platform for research and application for sustainable viticulture with 9 partner institutes in France, Switzerland and Germany in cooperation with Peter Nick
Occurrence and diversity of wood colonizing fungi in pruning wounds of grapevine Partner: University of Florence
Microscopic examinations of the structure of wood of the grapevine, which is attacked by wood-decomposing fungi. Partner: University of Freiburg, Institute for Forest Botany
Characterization of the nanostructure of the berry surface Partner: University of Basel Swiss Nanoscience Institute Nano Imaging Lab; University of Würzburg , Institute of Botany 2; University of Freiburg Freiburg center for interactive materials and bio-inspired technologies

Web links

literature

Hanns-Heinz Kassemeyer, Günter Schruft: Diseases and pests of the grapevine. Th. Mann, Gelsenkirchen 1999, ISBN 3-7862-0112-9

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Kassemeyer, Hanns-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German plant physiologist and phytomedicist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 21, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tübingen

[1] website of the partner site Vitifutur

[2] Vitifutur a transnational project for sustainable viticulture