State Institute for Apiculture
| State Institute for Apiculture Hohen Neuendorf eV |
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 State Institute for Apiculture |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | legally independent |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Registered association |
| Facility location: | Hohen Neuendorf |
| Type of research: | applied basic research |
| Subjects: | Natural sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | biology |
| Management: | Kaspar Bienefeld |
| Homepage: | www.honigbiene.de |
The State Institute for Apiculture (LIB) is a non-university research institution based in Hohen Neuendorf , Brandenburg , in the legal form of a non-profit, registered association . The institute's tasks are to lay the foundations in all areas of apiculture through breeding including artificial insemination of bees, work on varroa resistance , pollination and honey quality . The association is funded on a project basis by the states of Brandenburg, Berlin , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia .
The present state institute was founded in 1992 by the Ministry of Agriculture of the State of Brandenburg on the basis of recommendations made by the Science Council in September 1991. Six months later, the institute was registered as a non-profit association.
history
The history of the regional institute goes back to 1918, when a research center for bee biology and beekeeping was established at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin-Dahlem . From this, the Institute for Apiculture at the Agricultural University Berlin emerged in 1923 and the Apiculture Department at the Institute for Agricultural Zoology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in 1933 .
After the division of Germany and Berlin, the institute located in West Berlin was assigned to the Technical University of Berlin . The East Berlin Humboldt University then established the Apiculture and Silk Making Department of the Institute for Poultry and Small Animal Breeding in Hohen Neuendorf near Berlin in 1952. In 1970 the VEB Research Center for Bee Management was founded in Hohen Neuendorf . The new institute was subordinate to VVB Tierzucht until 1973 , and from 1974 to VVB Seed and Planting Material of the GDR .
With the reunification of Germany in 1990, the research center was initially placed under the Ministry of Agriculture of the State of Brandenburg. As a non-university institution, according to the unification agreement, it had to be decided on the basis of an evaluation by the Science Council and the resulting recommendation whether and in what form there would be a right to exist for a successor institution. The Science Council then recommended the establishment of an institute as a multi-state institute for the new federal states, with the main topics: breeding against varroosis , honey research, studies on the importance of bees as an environmental factor, university teaching and advice on beekeeping.