Hansjörg Küster

Hansjörg Küster (* 1956 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German biologist and has been Professor of Plant Ecology at the Institute for Geobotany at the Leibniz University of Hanover since 1998 . He is best known for his publications on the history of forests in Central Europe and the history of the landscape .

Live and act

Hansjörg Küster studied biology at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim and received his doctorate in 1985.

Küster has been a professor at the University of Hanover since 1998 . His fields of work are the basics of ecology and the history of vegetation and landscape. Küster is the head of several third-party funded projects from the EU, the German Research Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation .

In his books and essays, Küster primarily analyzes the shaping of the contemporary Central European landscape and the forest by humans and forestry. Küster has popularized his theses - for example on the wood shortage - also in media appearances and with newspaper articles. Küster has not only written books in general about the history of nature and landscape, he has also written specific things about the grain and the garden kingdom of Wörlitz. In 2020 his book Die Alpen. The story of a landscape in which he does not want to turn the Alps into a protected area, but rather emphasizes the mutual dependence of ecological economics and tourism.

Fonts (selection)

• History of the landscape in Central Europe. From the ice age to the present . CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39525-2 .
• The Baltic Sea. A natural and cultural history . Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-49362-9 .
• Nature becomes landscape. Photos Wolfgang Volz . zu Klampen, Springe 2005, ISBN 3-934920-51-9 .
• That is ecology. The biological basis of our existence . CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53463-5 .
• The Elbe. Landscape and history. 1st edition. Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56209-9 .
• History of the forest. From prehistoric times to the present. 2nd Edition. the brochure edition CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-50279-8 .
• Nice prospects. Little history of the landscape . CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58570-8 .
• Biosphere Upper Secondary Level II - Themes: Ecology: Student Book . Cornelsen, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-06-420070-8 .
• The discovery of the landscape. Introduction to a New Science . CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63702-5 .
• In the beginning there was the grain. Another story of humanity . CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65217-2 .
• North Sea. The story of a landscape. Wachholtz Verlag, Kiel / Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-529-07604-6 .
• German landscapes: from Rügen to the Danube valley. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-71387-3 .
• The forest: nature and history. CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73216-4 (CH Beck Wissen series, No. 2891)
• The Alps. Story of a landscape. CH Beck, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-406-74828-8 .

Reviews

• Gesine Hindemith: Review by: Hansjörg Küster: “Beautiful prospects”. Little history of the landscape. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2009. In: FAZ , June 17, 2009.
• Anselm Tiggemann : Review by: Hansjörg Küster: The Elbe. Landscape and history , Munich: CH Beck 2007. In: sehepunkte . 8 (2008), No. 4, April 15, 2008.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hansjörg Küster in the catalog of the German National Library
• Site by Hansjörg Küster at the Leibniz University of Hanover
• Ulrich Baron: The plant ecologist Hansjörg Küster is re-spelling sustainability . In: Zeit.de . October 13, 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: No gentian without a lift. Retrieved July 4, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Gesine Hindemith: Hansjörg Küster: Beautiful prospects. Ghosts in the German forest. faz.net , June 17, 2009, accessed June 22, 2017 . 
3. ^ Anselm Tiggemann: Hansjörg Küster: The Elbe. VIEWPOINTS , accessed October 15, 2015 .