Hans-Jürgen Langholz

Hans-Jürgen Langholz (born September 24, 1935 in Brunsholt , Steinburg district , Schleswig-Holstein) is a German agricultural scientist; He was a university lecturer for animal breeding and product science at the University of Göttingen and for many years head of the Relliehausen experimental department .

Live and act

From an early age connected to his parents' farm, he began to study agricultural sciences at the Universities of Kiel and Göttingen after completing an agricultural apprenticeship with an assistant examination in 1957 , where he completed his studies in 1961 with a diploma.

During his doctorate with Fritz Haring , which he started at the Institute for Animal Breeding and Pet Genetics in Göttingen in 1961, he went to Harald Skjervold in 1963 at the Institute for Animal Breeding and Pet Genetics at the Agricultural University in Vollebeck in Norway . From this research period (1963-1965) a number of trend-setting publications in the field of insemination breeding planning for farm animals emerged.

In Norway, Jürgen Langholz also got to know the integration of fish into the group of farm animals, an approach that he later followed very successfully at the Göttingen Institute. In 1964 he received his doctorate in Göttingen as a Dr. sc. with the dissertation "The progeny test on the ward as a breeding way to improve beef production".

He then went to the tropics, where he began to establish the dairy industry in Thailand as head of the Huey Kaew animal breeding project in Chiangmai as part of the bilateral German technical assistance.

Jürgen Langholz returned in 1969 to the Institute for Animal Breeding and Pet Genetics in Göttingen, where he worked as an assistant and senior assistant. He completed his habilitation in 1972 at the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Göttingen with a cumulative habilitation thesis in the field of "Animal Breeding and Domestic Genetics" and was appointed university lecturer. He was involved in the introduction of the collegial management structure of the Göttingen Animal Breeding Institute in 1972, became one of the three institute directors, headed the working groups "Animal Breeding" and "Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics" and took over the scientific management of the Relliehausen experimental farm. In 1974 he was appointed associate professor and in 1978 with the appointment to the chair for animal husbandry and animal breeding at the university as full professor. Jürgen Langholz was managing director of the Institute for Animal Breeding and Domestic Genetics for twelve years (1980–84, 1992–2000) and dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at Georg August University in 1986/88.

Research engagements

His scientific work was shaped by a forward-looking, holistic view of breeding and husbandry issues, which included ecological and economic factors and extended from production to the finished product (from farm to table), including animal welfare and animal health. Jürgen Langholz laid the foundation for the development of “Animal Husbandry and Animal Breeding in the Tropics and Subtropics”, “Product Quality” and “Aquaculture” as independent subject areas at the Faculty. He achieved a special expansion result with the establishment of the research and study center for the processing industry at the University of Göttingen in Vechta, of which he was managing director from 1986 to 2000. Around 200 diploma theses, 70 dissertations and 4 habilitations were completed under his leadership. The results of his research work have been published in more than 300 publications in scientific and practice-oriented journals, conference reports and book contributions.

voluntary work

• Chair of the “Green Study Courses” commission of the study reform in Lower Saxony (1980–83)
• Main reviewer at the "International Foundation for Science" in Stockholm (1976–95)
• Member of the Cattle Commission of the European Association for Animal Breeding (1982–2000)
• Member of the working committees "Animal Production in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Locations" (1983-85) and "Animal Husbandry" (1983-94)
• Deputy Chairman of the "Meat Production" working committee of the German Society for Breeding Science (1982–2000)
• Member of the evaluation commission of the Science Council for the evaluation of research institutions in the field of livestock sciences and the “green” faculties in the new federal states (1990–91)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Institute for the Biology of Farm Animals in Dummersdorf (1993–2001)
• Expert within the framework of the university structure reform in Hesse (1995) and Schleswig-Holstein (1997)
• Expert for the accreditation of agricultural-horticultural courses at the HU Berlin (2000)

honors and awards

In recognition of his worldwide scientific work in the field of animal breeding, his great contributions to the integration of fish in the breeding work of farm animals, the establishment of the fields of tropical animal breeding, product quality and aquaculture at the Göttingen Faculty of Agriculture, as well as his successful national and international activities, Langholz became 2003 awarded the Hermann von Nathusius Medal of the German Society for Zuchtungskunde ( DGfZ ).

Web links

• Hans-Jürgen Langholz in the breeding department of the DGfZ

literature

• Hermann von Nathusius Medal for Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Langholz . In Züchtungskunde , Volume 75, Issue 6, Ulmer Verlag , Stuttgart 2003, pp. 417-419, ISSN 0044-5401.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Langholz in Züchtungskunde pdf accessed on February 3, 2017
2. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Langholz on the page of the Department of Livestock Sciences at the University of Göttingen
3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Langholz on the DGfZ website