Hans H. Hattemer

Hans Heinrich Hattemer (born March 13, 1935 ) is a German forest scientist and geneticist . The internationally renowned scientist was a long-time professor of forest genetics and forest plant breeding at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

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Hans H. Hattemer began his scientific career at the Federal Research Institute for Forestry and Wood Management in Reinbek near Hamburg , to which he later remained very attached. In 1963 he did his doctorate at the University of Hamburg with the dissertation The reaction and the osmotic value of the needle cell sap of pine, Pinus silvestris L. , of various geographical origins in connection with their susceptibility to the Schütte Lophodermium pinastri , Schrad. Chev. to the Dr. rer. nat . With the writing Attempts to Geographical Variation in Japanese Larch he qualified as a professor at the University of Göttingen in 1968 and in the same year went to Yale University in New Haven as research and lecturer . From there he moved to the University of Stockholm as an assistant professor (Bitr. Prof.) and in 1975 accepted the chair for forest genetics and forest plant breeding at the Faculty of Forest Sciences at the University of Göttingen. This full professorship was linked to the management of the Forest Genetics and Forest Plant Breeding Department of the Institute for Forest Genetics, Forest Biometry and Computer Science in the Faculty. Due to the growing importance of the two institute departments, these were later divided into independent institutes, with Hattemer heading the Institute for Forest Genetics and Forest Plant Breeding.

Hattemer's scientific work focused on the genetic examination and monitoring of forest reproductive material as well as the search for ways to trace its origin with genetic examination methods. To this end, numerous studies were carried out under his leadership, including those on spruce and silver fir . In the course of the debate about the so-called “ forest dieback ”, Hattemer and his colleagues also investigated the effects of pollution on the genetic structures of forest trees, especially the European beech, during the 1980s .

With the forest policy and forest practice demands derived from his theses and his criticism of the provisions of the Forest Seed Act , he has triggered a series of technical debates. As a result of his decades of research, Hattemer consistently referred to genetic variation and its significance for forests and forest trees. He warned that this would be limited too much by limiting it to just a few origins. Therefore, Hattemer has always spoken out in favor of the conservation of forest genetic resources on a broad basis and gene conservation , as well as emphasizing the importance of biodiversity . With Fritz Bergmann and later Martin Ziehe, he wrote Introduction to Genetics for Forest Science Students (1987, 2nd edition 1993), a standard textbook for forest science university instruction.

In addition to numerous international research projects, Hattemer is also involved in various specialist committees, for example as chairman of the IUFRO specialist group “Genetics” and as a member of the advisory board of the Federal Research Institute for Forestry and Wood Management. In 1980 he was a co-founder of the scientific working group "Forum Genetics - Forests - Forestry", of which he has been a member since then. He is co-editor of the journals Silvae Genetica (since 1985) and Forest Genetics (since 1994). He also wrote numerous articles for these and other specialist publications. He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Dendrobiology .

Meanwhile released, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. However, Hans H. Hattemer continues to work in Göttingen with a focus on the genetics of tropical trees. He lives in Reinhausen .

Fonts

• The reaction and osmotic value of the needle cell sap of pine, Pinus silvestris L., of various geographical origins in connection with their susceptibility to the Schütte Lophodermium pinastri, Schrad. Chev. , Dissertation, Hamburg 1963 (under this title as Mitteilungen der Bundesforschungsanstalt für Forst- und Holzwirtschaft, Reinbek (Volume 56) also appeared in print, Hamburg 1964)
• Attempts at the geographical variation of the Japanese larch , habilitation thesis, Göttingen 1968
• together with Enar Andersson: Variation among clones and ortet-ramet relationship in grafted Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) = Variationen mellan kloner och sambandet ursprungsträd, klon för olika egenskaper hos tall , Studia forestalia Suecica 148, Uppsala 1978
• together with Enar Andersson and CO Tamm: Effects of spacing and fertilization on four grafted clones of Scots pine = Inverkan av förband och gödsling på utvecklingen av tallympar av fyra olika kloner , Studia forestalia Suecica 141 ISSN  0039-3150 / ISBN 91-38-03734 -3
• together with Fritz Bergmann: Introduction to genetics for forest science students , Frankfurt am Main 1987 (2nd, revised and expanded edition together with Fritz Bergmann and Martin Ziehe, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-7939-0820-8 )
• as editor: Studies on the effects of pollution on the genetic structures of beech populations <Fagus sylvatica L.>. Final report etc. , environmental research plan of the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. Forest damage, air pollution, Göttingen and Berlin 1989
• as editor: Preservation of forest genetic resources , writings from the forestry faculty of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Volume 98), Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-7939-5098-0
• as editor together with Zin-Suh Kim: Conservation and manipulation of genetic resources in forestry. Proceedings of the First Joint Korean-German Symposium on Forest Genetics, Inchon Memorial Hall, Korea University, Seoul, September 10-11, 1991 , Seoul 1994, ISBN 89-7093-020-5
• as co-author: Biodiversity and Sustainable Forestry , Landsberg 1996, ISBN 3-609-69360-6
• as co-author: From genetic fingerprint to secure reproductive material. Investigations on the conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Rhineland-Palatinate , communications from the Forest Research Institute Rhineland-Palatinate (No. 49), Trippstadt 2002, ISSN  1610-7705
• as co-author: Two decades of genetic resource research in Rhineland-Palatinate. Implementation of the concept for the conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources using the example of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Conference report on the international specialist colloquium with excursion on 28/29 October 2003 at Hambach Castle near Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , messages from the Research Institute for Forest Ecology and Forestry Rhineland-Palatinate (No. 52), Trippstadt 2004, ISSN  1610-7705
• together with Reiner Finkeldey: Tropical forest genetics , Tropical Forestry, Berlin, Heidelberg a. a. 2007, ISBN 3-540-37396-9

literature

• Georg Heinrich Melchior: Hans Heinrich Hattemer. It's been 60 years and still not comfortable for everyone . In: Silvae Genetica , Volume 44, issue 1/1995, pp. 56-57, ISSN  0037-5349
• Hans Hattemer , in: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2003. 19th edition. Volume I: A - J. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists . KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , p. 1172

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans H. Hattemer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Example of a research project led by Hans H. Hattemer