Herbert Kötter

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Herbert Kötter (born December 5, 1916 in Bad Pyrmont , † January 2, 2003 in Lollar ) was a German agricultural and economic sociologist.

Life

After the Second World War , in which he participated as a soldier, and imprisonment in the USA, Kötter studied agriculture at what was then the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and was awarded a Dr. agr. PhD . Until 1953 he was a research assistant in Giessen, after which he worked for a short time in the private sector and was still employed by the Research Society for Agricultural Policy and Agricultural Sociology in 1953 , of which he took over in 1958. In 1959 he completed his habilitation at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn for agricultural sociology and agricultural policy.

In 1964 Kötter became professor of agricultural sociology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, where he was rector in 1968/69. In 1969 he moved to the agricultural faculty of the University of Bonn as a professor of economic sociology, where he taught until his retirement .

Kötter was a longstanding advisor to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation.

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Individual evidence

  1. Habilitation thesis: Rural population in social change