Karl-Heinrich Hartge

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Karl Heinrich Hartge (born March 18, 1926 in Dorpat / Tartu , Estonia , † June 11, 2009 in Garbsen near Hanover ) was a German horticultural scientist and soil scientist. He is considered to be the founder of modern soil physics in Germany.

Life

Karl Heinrich Hartge's family had lived in Estonia for several generations . Hartge grew up in Reval, today's Tallinn , and attended the Hessesche Schule there from 1933 and the Knight and Cathedral School in Reval from 1937 . As a child and adolescent, he fell ill with polio and pulmonary tuberculosis and was therefore not drafted into military service. After the beginning of the Second World War , the family was relocated to Bromberg / Bydgoszcz via Gotenhafen / Gdynia in the winter of 1939 as part of the resettlement of the Baltic Germans . From there the family fled to what would later become Lower Saxony in early 1945.

After completing his Abitur at the Graf-Friedrich-Oberschule in Diepholz in 1946, he completed an apprenticeship as a tree nursery gardener and then worked as a gardener's assistant in tree nurseries in Northern Germany, Denmark and Sweden. He then studied horticulture from November 1952 at the Faculty of Horticulture and Regional Culture of the Technical University of Hanover and graduated in 1955 with a degree in gardening.

On July 8, 1958, under Professor Paul Schachtschabel, with a thesis on the subject of the effect of lime on the structural stability of arable soils, he was awarded a Dr. rer. hoard. PhD and then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Soil Science of the Faculty of Horticulture and Regional Culture at the TH Hannover .

In the autumn of 1963 he submitted his habilitation thesis on the subject of properties and determination of the cavities in the ground and on December 5, 1963 he obtained the venia legendi and admission to the teaching staff of the TH as a private lecturer .

From 1970 he was associate professor for soil physics at the TH Hannover (since 2006 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover ). In the course of his active professional life he supervised 14 doctoral students from Germany, Turkey, China and Chile. Business trips took him to the USA, Latin America, Asia and Australia.

After his retirement in 1991, he worked as a founding director of the ZALF (Center for Agricultural and Landscape Research) in Müncheberg (Brandenburg) from January to August 1992 .

In 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Karl Heinrich Hartge was married from 1958 until his death and had three children.

Publications

Karl Heinrich Hartge was the author of more than 150 publications in German and English in nationally and internationally recognized journals as well as numerous book chapters. From 1976 to 1998 he was co-author of the Scheffer / Schachtschabel (textbook of soil science, 9th - 14th edition, chapter soil physics . 1st edition: Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1937). His individual publications Soil Physics Practical Course (1971) and Introduction to Soil Physics (Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1978) were considered standard titles. The introduction to soil physics has been translated into English ( Essential Soil Physics . Stuttgart: Schweizerbart, 2016) and Japanese ( Dojo butsurigaku gairon . Tokyo: Hakuyu-sha, 1985).

Awards

literature

Blume, Hans-Peter, and Rainer Horn (eds.). Soil Science Personalities III. Lectures of the working group History of Soil Science at the annual conference of the German Soil Science Society in September 2011 in Berlin. No. 95 (2012). Institute for Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, University of Kiel.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oswald Hartge: On life's great scales . Ed .: Harro von Hirscheydt. Hirscheydt, Hanover 1968.
  2. ^ Oswald Hartge: It was just an interlude . BookXpress, Fernwald 2003, ISBN 3-936705-04-6 .
  3. ↑ Honorary doctorates. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  4. ^ Institute for Soil Science - Person. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  5. ^ Karl Heinrich Hartge, Rainer Horn, Robert Horton, Rainer Horn, Jörg Bachmann: Essential Soil Physics. July 28, 2016, accessed March 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hartge, Karl-Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartge, Karl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horticultural scientist and soil scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2009
Place of death Garbsen