Holger Magel

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Holger Herbert Magel (born May 3, 1944 in Neuburg an der Donau ) is a German geodesist . He was head of the Bavarian Administration for Rural Development and subsequently full professor for land management and land development at the Institute for Geodesy , GIS and Land Management at the Technical University of Munich . Here he was also founding director of the first international postgraduate master's program "Land Management and Land Tenure in urban and rural areas"in Germany. Since 2013 he has been a member of the Emeriti of Excellence group in what is now the Senior Excellence Faculty of the Technical University of Munich.

Life

Magel studied surveying from 1963 to 1968 at the TH Munich. After a managerial position in the field of engineering geodesy and cadastre in the Graz surveying office of Karl Rinner , he completed his Bavarian legal clerkship in 1971 with a major state examination . Until 1974 he was head of land consolidation procedures including village renewal , urban development and land-use planning in Upper and Lower Bavaria . From 1975 he was a conservator (chief engineer) at the chair for land consolidation and rural reorganization at the Technical University of Munich and organizer of the postgraduate contact courses in rural reorganization. In 1977 he became a Dr.-Ing. With a thesis on planning issues in land consolidation at the TUM . PhD .

From 1978 to 1997 Magel held a leading position in the rural development department of the Supreme Land Consolidation Authority in the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry . In 1979 he became head of department, in 1993 head of human resources and in 1995 head of department as well as head of the Bavarian administration for rural development. In addition, from 1978 to 1980 he was the first managing director of the newly founded federal and state working group for land consolidation (today Arge Sustainable Land Development) and from 1987 to 1990 deputy office manager of State Secretary Hans Maurer .

After many years as a lecturer at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich and later at the Technical University of Munich , he was appointed honorary professor for rural reorganization in 1993. In 1998 he became the successor to Richard Hoisl the call to the Chair of Land Tenure and Land Development at the Technical University of Munich. Magel retired in 2012. Until 2015, however, he remained director of the English-language master's program “Land Management and Land Tenure”.

Magel was involved in numerous honorary positions, such as vice and president of the world association Fédération Internationale des Géomètres (1998–2006). In 2007 he was made honorary president of the FIG. In addition, after 25 years of presidency, he has been Honorary President of the Bavarian Academy for Rural Areas since May 2019 . He is a (now released) member of the German Geodetic Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

In addition to being a member of the Bavarian State Planning Advisory Board for decades, Magel was a member of the Advisory Board for Spatial Development of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development from 2009 to 2013 and a member of the Enquete Commission of the Bavarian State Parliament "Equivalent living conditions throughout Bavaria" from 2014 to 2018 . The central result of the commission's work was the model of spatial justice developed by Magel and Manfred Miosga. Magel is repeatedly invited as an expert to expert hearings in the Bavarian state parliament on issues relating to the state planning law and state development program, the preservation of the Bavarian landscape or to save space.

Magel lives in Munich.

Act

Magel became known at national, European and international level for his commitment to village renewal and land development. In 1977 he organized the first German seminar on village renewal after the Land Consolidation Act came into force at the Technical University of Munich; from 1981 he built up the Bavarian village renewal program . A major promoter of village renewal was the CSU parliamentary group chairman and later state parliament president Alois Glück , with whom Magel published several books. From 1984 to 1995 Magel was head of the German working group on village renewal of the ARGE Landentwicklung. From this position he wrote the first book on village renewal in reunified Germany in 1991. In 1992/1993, Magel was also a consultant for rural development in the five new German federal states on behalf of the European Commission's Agriculture Directorate-General .

As early as 1982, together with Fritz Auweck , he laid the foundations for independent landscape planning in land consolidation with the book Biotopschutz in der Flurbereinigung and then introduced it into practice. Through his initiative, the three Bavarian schools for village renewal and rural development ( Thierhaupten , Plankstetten and Klosterlangheim ) were founded and in 1990 the Bavarian Days of Village Culture came into being. Magel is also a co-founder of the Arge Ländlicher Raum (Working Group of the Academies Rural Areas in the German Länder) and the European Working Group on Rural Development and Village Renewal (1988/89). As part of his work as head of the (today) department of land and real estate management of the German Geodetic Commission, he was significantly involved in the introduction of the term "land management" into German land management science.

In 1999, Magel founded the “Munich Days of Land Management and Land Development” (today: “Munich Days for Sustainable Land Management”) and the sponsoring group of the same name. In the German Expo year 2000 he organized and led the first world conference Rural 21 in Potsdam on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture .

The Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany was awarded to Holger Magel in 2002 for his exemplary commitment to rural areas, in particular for rural development and village renewal. Other high honors, including the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver 2006, the Bavarian Order of Merit 2007, the State Medal in Gold 2009 and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class 2013 followed. Due to his extraordinary commitment in Austria, he was the first foreigner to receive the Hans Kudlich Prize in 1988.

Magel has published numerous scientific research papers and publications (over 400). He was u. a. Long-time editor of reports from land consolidation (later reports from rural development ) as well as editor of the material collection he founded for the Chair of Land Management and Rural Development at the Technical University of Munich and member of the editorial board of the journal Socioloija sela (Rural Sociology) , Zagreb , Croatia .

He was visiting professor in Melbourne in 2003 and Krakow in 2017.

Magel has been intensively active in China since 1988. In November 1988 he started the Sino-Bavarian pilot project village and rural development Nan Zhang Lou in the Bavarian partner province of Shandong . In October 2019, the Shandong Provincial Government awarded him the title of "Ambassador of Friendship of Shandong Province" in recognition of his decades of service.

In Cambodia , Magel, most recently as technical advisor to the Minister of Land and Spatial Planning, played a key role in the development of a national spatial planning strategy and the "White Paper Land Policy".

Awards and honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Biotope protection in land consolidation. Examples and suggestions for practice. Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests, Munich 1982 (together with Fritz Auweck).
  • What does the village of the future need? Philosophy or money or both? Salzburg 1988 (together with Alfred Winter).
  • The Bavarian Village Renewal Program. For the future of our villages. Local policy guidelines of the HSS, Munich 1989 (together with Josef Attenberger).
  • The country has a future. New perspectives for rural areas. Jehle 1990, ISBN 3-7825-0275-2 (edited together with Alois Glück ).
  • Village renewal in Germany. Impetus for the environmentally friendly development of our rural home. DG Bank, Neuwied 1991.
  • New ways in local politics. Through a new civil and social culture to an active civil society. Jehle 2000, ISBN 3-7825-0411-9 (Ed. Together with Alois Glück)
  • Land Management - The new challenge in land management and land development. In: Land Management and Land Management. 65th vol. 1, February 2003, pp. 11–15.
  • New networks of civic engagement. Strengthening families through voluntary initiatives. Jehle 2004, ISBN 3782504704 (Ed. Together with Alois Glück and Thomas Röbke)
  • “It's all about land” or “How international networks approach the land issue”. In: zfv - Journal for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Landmanagement , 131st year, No. 5/2006, ISSN  1618-8950 , pp. 287-291 (together with Babette Wehrmann)
  • Speaking of blooming landscapes - impressions from eastern Germany. In: DVW Bayern Mitteilungen Heft 3/2010 (see also first publication in DVW Bayern Mitteilungsblatt Heft 4/1993 and in Schönere Heimat Heft 3/1993).
  • Rural development for the future of Bavaria. Lecture at the 125th anniversary of the Bavarian Administration for Rural Development, Munich 2011 ( online ).
  • Land development where? Reflections on theory and practice. In: Land Management and Land Management. 76th vol. 6, December 2014, pp. 248–254.
  • Spatial justice - a topic for land developers and other geodesists ?! In: zfv - Journal for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management , 141st year, No. 6/2016, ISSN 1618-8950, pp. 377–383.
  • Country lust, country frustration or both? Current comments on equal living conditions in town and country. In zfv - Journal for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management , Volume 144, No. 3/2019, ISSN  1618-8950 , pp. 147–156.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b zfv - Journal for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management , Volume 139, No. 2/2014, p. N-33
  2. ↑ a b c Theo Kötter: "Holger Magel for his 75th birthday". In: zfv - Journal for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management , Volume 144, No. 3/2019, p. 200
  3. ↑ a b TU Munich: Bio- and Bibliography undated [2014]
  4. ↑ Holger Magel. In: emeriti-of-excellence.tum.de. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Richard Hoisl: The art of renewal and development. On the 60th birthday of Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel. In: Festschrift Sustainable Development of Town and Country. Holger Magel on his 60th birthday. Chair for Land Management and Land Development at TUM, issue 30/2004 of the collection of materials, ISBN 3-935049-30-7 , pp. VII – XII.
  6. ↑ Fédération Internationale des Géomètres: Bio- and Bibliography undated
  7. ↑ See e.g. B. Hearing of the Economic Committee of the Bavarian State Parliament on May 14, 2020 (see list of experts ; PDF; 103 kB), accessed on May 18, 2020.
  8. ↑ Reinfried Mansberger: 75th birthday of Univ.-Prof. EoE Dr.-Ing. Holger MAGEL. In: vgi - Österreichische Zeitschrift für Vermessung & Geoinformation , Volume 107, Issue 3/2019, pp. 211–212.
  9. ↑ Klaus Trenz: The Chinese want to learn from the Franks. In: kurier.de. November 13, 2015, accessed August 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Magel, Holger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Magel, Holger Herbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geodesist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuburg on the Danube