Hans-Hartwig Ruthenberg
Hans-Hartwig Ruthenberg (born March 19, 1928 in Danzig ; † July 19, 1980 in Stuttgart ) was a German agricultural scientist with a research focus on tropical and subtropical agriculture.
Life
Ruthenberg studied agricultural sciences from 1949 to 1954 at the University of Göttingen and graduated with a doctorate. agr. from. Postgraduate studies in the USA and a research stay in Southeast Asia followed. He then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Foreign Agriculture at the Technical University of Berlin and did research stays in East Africa. In 1965 he completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen and became a private lecturer. In 1966 he was offered a professorship for the economics of agricultural production in the tropics and subtropics at the Institute for Agricultural Management at the Hohenheim Agricultural University . In 1974 he was visiting professor at the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank and in 1976 adviser to the Kenyan government. 1965–1975 he was co-editor of the Africa Studies of the IFO Institute in Munich . He passed away unexpectedly in 1980.
Ruthenberg was married and had four children.
research
The main focus of Hans H. Ruthenberg's research has been tropical and subtropical agriculture. His best-known work is entitled Farming Systems in the Tropics (1971). Further publications are: African Agricultural Production Development Policy in Kenya (1966) and Smallholder Farming and Smallholder Development in Tanzania (1968). His teaching and research activities included land use systems in the tropics and subtropics, agricultural development policy (production) and irrigation economics. Particularly noteworthy is his "project theory".
Hans H. Ruthenberg Graduate Award
The Hans H. Ruthenberg Graduate Award was awarded from 1999 to 2009 by the Eiselen Foundation in Ulm. The fiat panis foundation has been awarding the prize since 2010 . The aim of the award is to “honor outstanding diploma or master's theses in the field of food security ”. The prize is endowed with 7,500 euros and was awarded to a total of 49 winners from 1999 to 2016.
literature
Hans Ruthenbergː "The sense of economic development" in STIMMEN DER ZEIT Herder-Druckerei Munich, Volume 191, Issue 2 - February 1973, 20 pages.
Individual evidence
- ^ Information about the Ruthenberg sponsorship award
- ^ Information from the Father and Son Eiselen Foundation
- ↑ Details on the Hans-H Ruthenberg Prize
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruthenberg, Hans-Hartwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German agricultural scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1980 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |