Karlheinz Köller

Karlheinz Köller (born October 5, 1946 in Hildesheim ) is a German agricultural scientist at the University of Hohenheim . He was head of the field of process engineering in plant production at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering and from 2005 to 2011 prorector for research at the University of Hohenheim.

Life

After attending the Max Planck High School in Duisburg with the Abitur in 1966, Köller completed agricultural internships. This was followed by studying general agricultural sciences at the University of Hohenheim (1968–72). After completing his diploma, Köller worked as a scientific employee at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering, where he did research in the field of conservation tillage. The final doctorate to Dr. sc.agr. took place in 1981.

From 1979 to 1991 Köller was head of the technology department in foreign trade at the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture in Bonn . In 1992 he was appointed professor at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics of the University of Hohenheim. In 1996 he also took over the management of the field of process engineering in plant production at the University's Institute for Agricultural Engineering. In 2005 he became the holder of the Chair of Process Engineering in Plant Production at the same institute that he held until his retirement in 2015.

Köller was active in numerous committees of the university, outstanding his activities as head of the East European Center and as prorector for research at the university.

He was also engaged as a

• Head of the Agrotransfer East research center
• Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
• Chairman of the Agricultural Sciences Examination Board
• Member of the board of the Collaborative Research Center "Local Agriculture in West Africa" ​​(SFB 308)
• Director of the M. Sc. Program Agricultural Sciences, Food, Security and Natural Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics
• Senate representative for the agricultural universities of Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest / Romania as well as the Universidad Catolica Asuncion / Paraguay and the Iowa State University / USA
• Head of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Agricultural and Environmental Technology
• Chairman of the Association for the Promotion of the German Agricultural Museum eV

Memberships and engagements

• DLG ( German Agricultural Society ) since 1972
• ISTRO (International Soil Tillage Research Organization) since 1973
• VDI ( Association of German Engineers ) since 1991
• ASAE (American Society of Agricultural Engineers) since 1992
• KTBL ( Board of Trustees for Technology and Construction in Agriculture ) since 1993
• GKB (Society for Conservative Tillage) since 2000
• Chairman of the working group for arable farming without a plow since 1987
• Organizer of the Hohenheim Field Day since 1995
• Co-editor of the magazine "Mulchsaat-Praxis" (in DLG Mitteilungen) since 1997
• Chairman of the regional working group Conservative tillage and direct sowing in Baden-Württemberg. since 2005
• Organizer of the Hohenheim Rotary Lectures since 2005
• Chairman of the DLG Innovations Commission Agritechnica

Research and publications

• List of publications by Karlheinz Köller on the website of the University of Hohenheim

Honors (selection)

• Honorary professorship at the Agricultural University of Cluj-Napoca 1999
• Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca 2001
• Honorary doctorate from Cluj-Napoca Agricultural University in 2002
• Honorary doctorate from the Poltava State Agricultural Academy (Ukraine) in 2002

Web links

• Karlheinz Köller University of Hohenheim
• Process engineering in plant production at the University of Hohenheim

literature

• Agricultural engineering: special issue for Karlheinz Köller's 60th birthday; Editor of the Board of Trustees for Technology and Construction in Agriculture, Darmstadt 2006 ISSN  0023-8082

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karlheinz Köller In: Ulrich Fellmeth , Kathrin Quast (arr.): The academic teachers at the University of Hohenheim 1968-2005. Scripta-Mercaturae-Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, pp. 239f. (online at: uni-hohenheim.de )
2. ^ German Agricultural Museum Hohenheim
3. ↑ DLG information on Karlheinz Köller ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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.