Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences
| Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences | |
|---|---|
| founding | December 8, 1993 |
| Sponsorship | Humboldt University of Berlin |
| place | Invalidenstrasse 42, 10115 Berlin |
| state | Berlin |
| country | Germany |
| management | Faculty of Life Sciences |
| Students | around 1800 |
| Website | www.agrar.hu-berlin.de |
The Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute of the Life Sciences Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin has two departments, that of agricultural economics and that of crop and animal sciences. There are also two affiliated institutes and the seminar for rural development belonging to the Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute. The institute offers 3 bachelor's and 9 master's degrees in the field of agricultural and horticultural sciences . All courses are accredited. The central research areas are securing world food, guaranteeing an ecologically and economically sustainable use of resources and preserving the natural environment. The forerunners of the institute go back to 1806.
history
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Royal Prussian Academic School of Agriculture
The Agricultural Training Institute, which opened in 1806 in the Möglin manor in Brandenburg - from 1819 "Royal Prussian Academic Training Institute for Agriculture" - which can be seen as the direct predecessor of academic agricultural training in Berlin, is primarily its founder, the German agricultural scientist Albrecht Daniel Thaer (1752– 1828), who held agricultural lectures as an associate professor at the Berlin University, founded in 1810, from 1810 to 1819. The doctor and farmer, who previously worked in Celle , gained and published scientific findings during his teaching and research activities in Möglin and Berlin, which had a decisive influence on the history of the emerging agricultural sciences. He published them in about 450 books and writings. The teaching program carried out in Möglin with the basic subjects chemistry, physics, geology, geography, botany, zoology and mathematics, the "business studies" (corresponding to today's agricultural economics), the "agronomy" (today soil science, fertilizer theory, arable and plant cultivation) and the Animal breeding including animal nutrition and husbandry as well as numerous minor subjects corresponded in its basic features to today's ideas.
After Thaer's retirement from the university in 1819, the Extraordinariat for Agriculture initially remained vacant, then from 1827 on from JE Stoerig and from 1855 from C. Schultz-Fleeth until finally, following a general trend of the time, in 1859 on a special initiative of H. v. Nathusius and A. Orth an independent agricultural teaching institute was founded in conjunction with the Berlin University.
Royal Agricultural University Berlin
In the winter semester of 1880/81, lectures at the newly founded agricultural college could begin. On February 14, 1881 she was awarded the title of Royal Agricultural University in Berlin . A period of upswing followed - increasing numbers of students, modern curricula, new subject areas, highly regarded scientific results in various fields, obtaining the right to confer doctorates - which was suddenly interrupted by the First World War and its dire consequences for the university. This overall successful period in the development of the Agricultural University is linked to famous scientists, such as the geneticist Erwin Baur , the plant breeder Kurt von Rümker , the chemist Max Delbrück and the Nobel Prize winner Eduard Buchner .
Since the buildings at Invalidenstrasse 42 were no longer sufficient despite the purchase of land nearby, 13 of the 27 institutes moved from the early 1920s to the early 1930s to Berlin-Dahlem in the grounds on Albrecht-Thaer-Weg and Lentzeallee around. With the establishment of a horticulture department at the Agricultural University in 1929, the first university horticultural course in Germany was created.
The Faculty during the National Socialism
When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the agricultural sciences in Berlin were also characterized by the alignment of teaching and research with the political and economic goals of the Nazi regime. For political or racial reasons, recognized university professors such as L. Armbruster, F. Baade, K. Brandt, A. Hanau, C. Neuberg were dismissed. At the end of 1934, the Agricultural and Veterinary College in Berlin were affiliated to the Berlin University as the Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine. In this form, however, it only existed for three years and in 1937 it was divided into an agricultural and a veterinary faculty. In the years 1941–42, faculty members under the direction of K. Meyer were involved in the creation of parts of the notorious "General Plan East", which envisaged the expulsion and death of millions of people from Eastern Europe. Faculty and university support the processing of this chapter of German history. At the end of the Second World War, the Faculty of Agriculture was also faced with a heap of rubble. Large parts of the faculty buildings, especially in Invalidenstrasse, were destroyed, valuable animal stocks destroyed, numerous scientists and students had to pay for the National Socialist war adventure with their lives, around 80 percent of the valuable books and magazines in the agricultural library fell to the flames after a bomb hit Victim.
The division of the faculty
As early as July 1945, the faculty council confirmed the first seven professors in their offices. a. the animal physiologist E. Mangold, the sugar technologist O. Sprengler, the plant breeder K. Opitz, the agricultural machine technician G. Fischer, a little later others such as EA Mitscherlich, and in 1946 the lectures could be reopened. In 1947 the faculty expanded its name to "Agricultural and Horticultural Faculty"; From February 8, 1949, the Berlin University was called " Humboldt University of Berlin " (HU). In 1951/52, on the initiative of HH Wundsch, the fishing industry was founded.
Since the main part of the faculty building was in the east of Berlin, the faculty was subject to the Soviet military administration. On the other hand, these facilities were particularly badly damaged, so that most of the teaching activities were relocated to Dahlem. The situation became even more complicated when, with effect from June 12, 1949, the institutes of the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture in the western sectors were subordinated to the Senate there and two years later the heads of these institutes in the western part of the city decided to build one of the Humboldt University to conduct lectures and research independently. By resolution of the House of Representatives on March 6, 1951, these institutes were merged to form the University Institute for Agriculture and on April 9 of the same year incorporated into the Technical University (TU) as the Faculty for Agriculture.
This marked the beginning of almost 40 years of separate development for the university agricultural educational institutions in East and West Berlin . Although there were remarkable achievements in university agricultural research and teaching at this time, it was not possible to build on the important traditions of the agricultural university. There were various reasons for this.
At the Humboldt University , teaching and research were increasingly subordinated to the political and economic goals of the SED . This was particularly evident in the division of the faculty into the sections plant production, animal production and veterinary medicine as well as horticulture at the end of the 1960s. This split was based on the separation of animal and plant production in agricultural practice. The training of leaders for agricultural and horticultural practice became more and more the focus of the educational work of the faculty and the sections. The expansion of basic research, however, took place preferentially at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences (first DAL, later AdL). Despite the unfavorable framework conditions, the members of the faculty have diligently and highly specialized in developing teaching and research in such a way that they have also achieved high international recognition.
Since the building of the Wall in 1961, the Faculty of Agriculture at the TU has been confronted above all with the problems of falling student numbers and the lack of an agricultural hinterland. At the end of the 1960s - triggered by student unrest - profound reforms took place at the TU. The Faculty of Agriculture was divided into the three departments (FB) "Food Technology and Biotechnology" (FB 13), "Landscape Development" (FB 14) and "International Agricultural Development" (FB 15). The latter pursued the goal in particular to train agricultural specialists for use in developing countries and to work on agricultural science issues in tropical and subtropical regions. But even this new orientation could not prevent matriculations for FB 15 from having to be temporarily suspended from 1974 onwards, on the recommendation of the Science Council. It was not until 1978 that students could be accepted again for the main course "International Agricultural Development" and in 1985 also for the basic course "Agricultural Sciences".
Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture
With the political change in the GDR in 1989 and the reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990, the opportunity arose to re-establish a joint agricultural science faculty in Berlin. As early as the spring of 1990, employees and students of the HU had elected their academic self-governing bodies in free democratic elections, and on September 1, the agricultural science sections were dissolved and replaced by three faculties, "Agriculture and Horticulture", "Food Industry and Food Technology" and "Veterinary Medicine", replaced. In 1991 the Science Council evaluated the agricultural science facilities at the three Berlin universities and made recommendations for their further development. In accordance with this proposal, the joint department of agricultural and horticultural sciences was established at the HU on October 1st, 1992. The process of merging the "International Agricultural Development" department and the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture was headed by a founding committee with E. Reisch (Hohenheim) as the founding dean until the end of March 1994. This committee drafted the concept for the structure of the new faculty, since December 8, 1993 again "Agricultural-Horticultural Faculty", with a total of 40 professorships in initially seven institutes. The consolidation of the faculty, which began under the leadership of the founding committee, could be continued from April 1, 1994 under the direction of the newly elected faculty council. An expression of the growing student interest in the courses and fields of study was the increasing number of enrollments.
The rise of the faculty during the merger process continued until 1996, when the Berlin Senate Administration announced that it would close the Agricultural and Horticultural Faculty for cost reasons. This was also prevented by protests from students, employees, representatives of national and international agricultural bodies and farmers. The faculty reacted by redesigning its structure with only four institutes. Some subject areas could not be continued. Under these circumstances, it was difficult to maintain the profile of study and research achievements with options and combinations for the students. That is why the course was restructured for the winter semester 2000/01.
Based on the experience gained since 1997 with the DAAD-funded English-language master’s program "International Agricultural Sciences", the two bachelor’s programs in Agricultural Sciences and Horticultural Sciences, as well as the 7 Master’s programs in Horticulture, Agricultural Economics, Plant Production Sciences, Livestock Sciences, International Agricultural Sciences (German and English), Sustainable Land Use, Fishery Science and Aquaculture / Fish Management and Water Management (English and German), which are among the first accredited agricultural science courses in Germany. Today the LGF has worldwide relationships with 40 partner universities. In addition, there is close cooperation with institutes of the “ Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz e. V. ”(until 1998“ Blue List ”) such as the State Institute for Apiculture Hohen Neuendorf e. V., Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim e. V., Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) in the Forschungsverbund Berlin e. V., Institute for Inland Fisheries e. V., Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e. V., Leibniz Institute for Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Production Großbeeren / Erfurt e. V.
Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences
On April 1, 2014, the Agricultural Horticultural Faculty was dissolved as part of the faculty reform of the Humboldt University in Berlin and integrated into the Life Sciences Faculty founded in the same year as the Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute.
Education
Around 1,800 students use the services offered by the Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institutes, which are provided by around 40 professors. There are collaborations with various partners of the Humboldt University, the Free University of Berlin as well as institutions and companies in and around Berlin. Bachelor and master courses have been offered since 1999.
Bachelor courses
- Agricultural Sciences
- Horticultural Sciences
- Agriculture and horticulture (with teacher training option)
Masters courses
- Process and quality management
- Integrated Natural Resource Management
- Agricultural Economics
- Fishery Science and Aquaculture
- International Master in Rural Development
- International Master in Horticultural Science
- Master’s degree for teaching agriculture and horticulture
- Master in Biodiversity Management and Research
- Master in Arid Land Studies
additional offers
- Postgraduate studies in "International Development Cooperation" at the Seminar for Rural Development
- PhD program in agricultural economics
structure
(As of January 2013)
Department of Agricultural Economics
areas of expertise
- Agricultural policy
- General management of agriculture
- Gender and globalization
- International agricultural trade and development
- Economics of Horticultural Production
- Resource economy
Junior professorships
- Quantitative Agricultural Economics
- Agricultural and horticultural science didactics
S junior professorship
- Cooperation Sciences
S professorships
- Development economics
- Economy and politics of rural areas
Honorary professorships
- International Agricultural Development (BMZ)
- Environmental ethics (Schweisfurth)
Visiting professorship
- Environmental Governance (Einstein Junior Fellowship)
Working group
- Agricultural advice and communication teaching
Department of Crop and Animal Sciences
areas of expertise
- Arable and crop production
- Biometrics and experimentation
- Biosystem technology
- Soil science and site studies
- Teaching and research area of horticultural plant systems
- Plant nutrition
- Phytomedicine
- Special zoology
- Animal husbandry systems and process engineering
- Urban ecophysiology
- Breeding Biology and Molecular Animal Breeding
Junior professorship
- Aquaculture
S professorships
- Fish Biology and Ecology (IGB)
- Nutritional Physiology of Crop Plants (IGZ)
- Integrative Fisheries Management (IGB)
- Landscape Substance Dynamics (ZALF)
- Use strategies for bioresources (ATB)
Apl. Professorships
- Agricultural Climatology (LGF)
- Dendroecology (KFE)
- Reproductive Biology (IZW)
Honorary professorships
- Apiculture (LIB)
- Bioprocess Engineering (ATB)
- Animal husbandry systems (ATB)
- Storage protection (JKI)
Central institutions of the LGF
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Campus north
On the north campus are u. a. the main building with lecture halls, specialist areas, the theater hall, the analytics community laboratory, the molecular biological center and the seat of the LGF student council with the student café "Flora Soft". Further subject areas, teaching and research facilities and lecture halls are located on the premises on Hannoversche Straße / Philippstraße. Most of the buildings are listed.
Molecular Biology Center
The LGF's Molecular Biology Center aims to create the basis for modern research and teaching in the fields of molecular genetics. Work is carried out there on the isolation and analysis of genetic material from livestock and crops, and laboratory equipment is provided for the independent implementation of research projects at the LGF. Students have the opportunity to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of basic molecular techniques within several modules. Scientists in the faculty also have the opportunity to learn molecular working methods. This is primarily intended for young scientists who are striving for further qualifications in the field of molecular biology in institutions at home and abroad.
Community laboratory analytics
Since January 1st, 2005, investigations that are of interest to experimental fields of the agricultural-horticultural faculty have been carried out in the joint analytics laboratory. The focus is on the joint use of a range of analytical devices and methods. The community laboratory is also integrated into the training of students and doctoral candidates.
Teaching and research stations
The LGF's teaching and research stations are located in Berlin-Dahlem and Thyrow . They are supervised by the outdoor and research greenhouse departments of the teaching and research station and belong to the Department of Crop and Animal Sciences. He also gives support in conducting on-farm trials. The Institute for Agricultural and Urban Ecological Projects at the Humboldt University of Berlin (IASP) supervises field tests at the Berge site (State of Brandenburg), which is also available to the LGF's departments. In addition to safeguarding tests in the context of current research projects, the supervision and documentation of the long-term field tests, some of which have been in place for more than 70 years, is a further focus of the work. In the field of student training, the field area supports the supervision of the plant and horticultural demonstration facilities as well as the implementation of field internships. He is involved in agricultural advice with the implementation of specialist events and his own specialist contributions.
Other facilities
- Institute for Agricultural and Urban Ecological Projects at the Humboldt University in Berlin
- Institute for Cooperative Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin V.
- Seminar for Rural Development (SLE)
Web links
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Individual evidence
- ^ To: The Agricultural and Horticultural Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Berlin 1998. (developed by the Faculty's Public Relations Committee)
- ↑ Publications of the university in the German National Library see DNB 005068649
- ↑ revised and supplemented by P. Christodulow and U. Kummerow, April 2001.
- ↑ Volker Klemm: From the Royal Academy of Agriculture in Möglin to the Agricultural and Horticultural Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Humboldt University, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-00-002300-3 .
- ↑ Start of the faculty reform. Press release from March 27, 2014.
- ↑ agrar.hu-berlin.de