Horst Lyr

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Horst Lyr (born October 24, 1926 in Breslau ) is a German phytopathologist and emeritus university professor.

Life

The son of a master tailor attended secondary school and served in the Wehrmacht from 1944 to 1945 .

After being a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union, he began studying pedagogy at the University of Halle in 1946 , where he graduated with a diploma in 1951 and then studied biology and chemistry . From 1951 to 1953 he was a research assistant at the University's Botanical Institute. In 1952 he was charged with a dissertation about nutrition physiology and sexual relationships of the fungal genus Pilobolus at John Buder doctorate .

In 1953 Lyr became a perception professor and head of the Institute for Forest Botany at the Forestry Faculty of the University of Berlin in Eberswalde . In 1956 he completed his habilitation with a study on the peroxidase of higher fungi. From 1958 to 1963 he was professor for forest botany at the Eberswalde faculty.

From 1963 to 1971 Lyr worked as director of the forest protection department of the Institute for Forest Sciences at the German Academy for Agricultural Sciences (DAL) in Eberswalde. Then he was director of the DAL Institute for Plant Protection Research in Kleinmachnow .

In 1976, Lyr was disciplined for unreported "Western contacts" and dismissed as director of the institute and from the plenary session of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences (AdL). After his reinstatement in 1976, he was director of the basic research area pesticides at the AdL until 1989 and from 1989 until his retirement in 1992 director of the Institute for Phytopharmacology of the Biological Central Institute Kleinmachnow. In March 1990 he was rehabilitated by the AdL plenum and re-accepted as a full academician and appointed to the honorary committee of the learned society.

Lyr has published publications on the phytopathology of forest trees, especially on the fermentation metabolism of fungal parasites and the effects of fungicidal substances.

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