Hartwig H. Geiger

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Hartwig H. Geiger (born May 8, 1939 in Hamburg ) is a German agricultural scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Hohenheim . He is one of the outstanding experts in the field of special plant breeding, especially population genetics .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in Hamburg in 1959, Geiger completed an agricultural apprenticeship and studied agriculture at the Hohenheim Agricultural University and the University of Kiel . In 1963 he returned to Hohenheim and was awarded a doctorate with his dissertation "Investigations into epistasia in quantitative characteristics of the maize Zea mays L." agr. graduated in 1967 ; as assistant to F. Wolfgang Schnell , he completed his habilitation and received the Venia legendi for plant breeding in Hohenheim.

In 1971 he was appointed professor to the chair of plant breeding and population genetics in Hohenheim, which he held until his retirement in 2007.

Special engagements

Geiger was head of the State Plant Breeding Institute (1979–1996), spokesman for the interdisciplinary research focus "Biotechnology and Plant Breeding" (1984–1997), Chairman of the Scientific Board of Trustees of the State Plant Breeding Institute (1996-2007) and member of the board of the Tropical Center of the University of Hohenheim. He was a member of the Central Commission for Biosafety of the Federal Republic of Germany (1994–2000). Geiger was also a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota at St. Paul and the University of Sydney in Australia .

Scientific achievements

  • Population genetics; Quantitative genetics; Plant breeding research

Memberships and honors

  • Society for Genetics ;
  • 2000–2004 President of the Society for Plant Breeding ;
  • European Research in Plant Breeding ( EUCARPIA );
  • Crop Science Society of America;
  • American Genetic Association;
  • 2004 Award of an honorary doctorate by the University of Giessen
  • Editorial Board of the international journals: Plant Breeding (until 2006), Theoretical and Applied Genetics, MAYDICA

Fonts (selection)

  • HH Geiger, FW Schnell: Cytoplasmic male sterility in rye (Secale cereale L.). In: Crop Sci. 10, 1970, pp. 590-593.
  • HH Geiger, M. Heun: Genetics of quantitative resistance to fungal diseases. In: Ann. Rev. Phytopathol. 27, 1989, pp. 317-341.
  • HH Geiger: Ways, advances and prospects of hybrid breeding. In: G. Haug, G. Schuhmann, G. Fischbeck (eds.): Plant production in change. Weinheim 1990, ISBN 3-527-26316-0 , pp. 41-72.
  • HH Geiger, T. Miedaner: Hybrid Rye and Heterosis. In: JG Coors, S. Pandey (Ed.): The Genetics and Exploitation of Heterosis in Crops. ASA-CSSA-SSSA. Madison 1999, OCLC 709551273 , pp. 439-450.
  • HH Geiger: Biotechnology and plant breeding: key disciplines for securing the nutrition of a growing human race. In: Dachverband Agrarforschung (Hrsg.): Glanzlichter der Agrarforschung. (= Agricultural spectrum. Volume 33). Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-7690-5032-0 , pp. 47-64.

Web links

literature

  • Ulrich Fellmeth , Kathrin Quast: The academic teachers at the University of Hohenheim 1968–2005. Stuttgart 2008, DNB 995780722 , p. 136 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartwig H. Geiger on the website of the University of Hohenheim
personal data
SURNAME Geiger, Hartwig H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agronomist and professor emeritus
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg