Herbert Stroebel

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Herbert Ströbel (* 1945 in Rudolzhofen , Middle Franconia ) is a German agricultural economist and professor for applied agricultural management at the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences . He has been involved in German and international agricultural development since the 1970s and was involved in international development and research projects.

Life

education

Ströbel attended the one-class elementary school in Rudolzhofen between 1951 and 1959 and then completed an agricultural apprenticeship in various farms with attendance at the agricultural vocational school and graduated from the engineering school for agriculture in Triesdorf. At the University of Hohenheim , he then studied general agricultural sciences with a specialization in economic and social sciences of agriculture and completed a postgraduate degree in social economics of agricultural development in developing countries at the Technical University of Berlin . He did his legal clerkship for the higher service in the state agricultural administration with a degree as assessor at the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests in Stuttgart .

He was a research assistant at the University of Hohenheim and at the Institute for Social Economics of Agricultural Development at the Technical University of Berlin and for the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) GmbH. 1971/1972 he worked as a project assistant in the German Agricultural Team of the German Development Agency for Developing Countries in Kenya . His doctorate as Dr. sc. agr. he graduated in 1976 with a dissertation on the subject of "Development opportunities for small farms in Kenya with special consideration of the use of small loans with advice" from Erwin Reisch and Hans-Hartwig Ruthenberg at the University of Hohenheim.

Professional activities

Between 1976 and 1978 he worked at GTZ as a specialist planner and department head for business administration and agricultural credit. In 1978 he moved to the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences as a professor for the field of agricultural economics . There, in 1990, he initiated the international master's degree in agricultural management, in which more than 1,500 international students from over 30 countries have participated since then. The model of the practice-oriented master’s training was adopted in a specially established international network of 17 agricultural universities. In the same year he founded the consulting company Triesdorf Consult.

From 1985 to 1988 he took a leave of absence from the professorship in order to take over the project management of a nationwide research project on soil fertility and fertilization in Kenya, the "Fertilizer Use Recommendation Project". In addition, he designed and managed a large number of international projects in the areas of agricultural training at universities and technical schools, the qualification and development of agricultural advisory services, as well as in rural development and in the development of farm management information systems for the EU , GTZ and the KfW , especially in countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Ströbel was dean of the Department of Agriculture II, member and chairman of the senate and vice-president of the university. He retired in 2011.

Awards

Orders of Merit and Awards

Honorary doctorates and honorary professorships

  • 1998 National Agrarian University of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1999 Sejfulin Agricultural University, Akmola (now Astana), Kazakhstan
  • 2001 Kazakh National Agricultural University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
  • 2002 Georgian State Agricultural University, Tbilisi, Georgia
  • 2002 Sumyer National Agricultural University, Sumy, Ukraine
  • 2003 State Agricultural Academy, Poltava, Ukraine
  • 2003 KI Scriabin Kyrgyz Agricultural University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
  • 2005 Armenian Agricultural Academy, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2006 Azerbaijani Agricultural Academy, Ganja, Azerbaijan
  • 2011 Urgench State University, Uzbekistan

Memberships in other organizations

  • Society for Economic and Social Sciences in Agriculture
  • Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research in Agriculture (GCHERA), initiator of the working group: Qualification Offensive to Improve Agricultural Management
  • Working group for agricultural research in the tropics and subtropics
  • Rotary Club Ansbach
  • German-Ukrainian Forum
  • Franconian Society for the Promotion of Sino-German Cooperation

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Honors from Herbert Ströbel on the Triesdorf Consult website, accessed on August 10, 2013. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.triesdorf-consult.de
personal data
SURNAME Strobel, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudolzhofen , Middle Franconia