Heinrich Spiecker

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Heinrich Spiecker (born June 1, 1947 ) is a German forest scientist .

career

Spiecker studied forestry at the University of Freiburg from 1968 to 1972 (diploma in forestry). In 1971 he received his Masters in Economics of Forest Management from the University of California, Berkeley . In 1974 he received his doctorate at the University of Freiburg on the subject of "Forest Planning and Management".

In 1990 he completed his habilitation and was full professor and head of the Institute for Forest Growth at the University of Freiburg from 1992 to 2015. From 1995 to 1997 he was dean of the forest faculty at the University of Freiburg.

Functions

  • 1992–2000: Chair of the IUFRO group P1.06 "Improvement and silviculture of Oak"
  • since 2000: Chairman of the IUFRO group 01/04/08 "Effects of Environmental Changes on Forest Growth"
  • Member of the board of directors of IUFRO
  • Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada
  • 2004–2008 initiator and chairman of the COST action "E42 Growing Valuable Broadleaved Tree Species"
  • since 2009 member of the Advisory Committee for Scientific Development of the Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF)
  • since 2010 chairman of the advisory group at the European Forest Institute

Honors

  • 2005 Schweighofer Prize , category forestry innovation prize for the development of the terrestrial laser scanning method for recording forest inventory parameters
  • 2006 DaimlerChrysler Financial Services award for outstanding innovative scientific work in the Franco-German context.

Publications (selection)

  • The simulation as a decision-making aid in forest planning , Forstl. Experimental u. Research institute Baden-Württemberg 1974 (dissertation)
  • To control the growth in thickness and the cleaning of branches of sessile and pedunculate oak: (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. And Quercus robur L.) , Forest Research Institute. 1991
  • with Kari Mielikäinen, Michael Köhl: Growth Trends in European Forests. Studies from 12 countries , 1996, ISBN 3-540-61460-5
  • with Michael Thies, Sebastian Hein, Kaisu Makkonen-Spiecker: Valuable Broadleaved Forests in Europe (= European Forest Institute Research Reports Vol. 22), Brill, Leiden 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-16795-7
  • with Jörg Hansen, Emil Klimo: Norway Spruce conversion - options and consequences (= European Forest Institute Research Report Vol. 18). Brill, Leiden 2004, ISBN 978-90-04-13728-8
  • with Konstantin von Teuffel, Manuela Baumgarten, Marc Hanewinkel, Werner Konold, Udo Hans Sauter, Klaus von Wilpert: Forest conversion: for future-oriented forest management. Results from the southern Black Forest Springer 2005, ISBN 3-540-23980-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schweighofer Prize - Laureate 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Spiecker, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest manager
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1947