Hans Reiner Schultz

Hans Reiner Schultz at the World Congress for Vine and Wine in Mainz (2015) first from left

Hans Reiner Schultz (born February 10, 1959 in Bad Dürkheim ) is a German crop scientist and professor. He has been working and teaching at the Geisenheim University since 1995 . One of his main research areas is the effects of climate change on viticulture . He has been President of Geisenheim University since 2013.

Life path

Hans Reiner Schultz gained international experience in South African viticulture after completing his school education . After completing a two-year apprenticeship as a winemaker, he began studying viticulture and cellar management at the Geisenheim University of Applied Sciences (today: Geisenheim University ). He continued his studies in 1983 after successfully passing his diploma in the branch "General Plant Biology" (Plant Biology) at the University of California, Davis . Here he chose the focus on horticulture . As a research assistant and doctoral student, he continued his research from 1987 to 1988 at the "Department of Viticulture and Enology" of this university.

Between 1989 and 1990, Schultz held teaching positions at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences and worked on the GTZ “ Table Grapes ” project in Kingston (Jamaica) and was a research assistant and doctoral student at the Geisenheim Research Institute until 1989 .

1992–1993 he worked again in Davis as a post-doctoral student at the Department of Viticulture and Enology of the Department of Botany. His research interests are primarily the ecophysiology of grapevines . In addition to the gas metabolism, the relationships between drought stress and root growth are the focus of his work. The aim of his investigations are “yield” and “environmental adaptation”.

In 1993, Schultz successfully applied for a globally advertised position as a scientist and post-doctoral candidate of the German Research Foundation at the Institut national de la recherche agronomique of the École nationale supérieure agronomique de Montpellier for two years . In September 1995 he took over the management of the viticulture department at the Geisenheim Research Institute and a teaching position for viticulture at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences. In 1998, Schultz was visiting professor at the National Wine and Grape Research Center at the Wagga Wagga site of Charles Sturt University , Australia.

Since February 2006 he has been working as head of the "Institute for Viticulture and Vine Breeding" at the Geisenheim Research Station.

On April 1, 2009, he was appointed director of the Geisenheim Research Station to succeed Klaus Schaller. He held this office until December 31, 2012 and took over the office of founding president of the newly founded Geisenheim University on January 1, 2013. On July 9, 2013, the university's electoral assembly elected him in the third ballot for a term of six years as the first president of the new university.

Honors

Schultz received the Rudolf Hermanns Prize in 1992, then in Davis, USA, for his work "Development of a photosynthesis, growth and light interception model for various canopy systems in vines (Vitis vinifera L.)"

Books and writings

Since 2009 he has been the author and co-editor of the annual German Viticulture Yearbook.

Audio book

Hans Reiner Schultz tells the basics of modern viticulture . Concept and direction: Klaus Sander. 2 audio CDs, 139 minutes. Berlin: supposé 2015, ISBN 978-3-86385-010-4

Web links

• Geisenheimer , viticulture researcher and head of viticulture at the Geisenheim research institute, Hans Reiner Schultz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schultz is President of the Geisenheim University of Applied Sciences. (No longer available online.) Wiesbadener Kurier , July 10, 2013, archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; Retrieved July 14, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.