Leo Dempfle

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Leo Dempfle (born August 30, 1942 in Schönau ) is a German agricultural scientist; he is an associate professor R. for biometric methods in animal breeding at the chair for animal breeding in the Weihenstephan Science Center for Nutrition, Land Use and Environment at the Technical University of Munich .

Live and act

He was born the son of a farrier, attended elementary school and worked in agriculture. He then graduated from the agricultural school in Landsberg am Lech as a “state-certified farmer”. He then studied at the Institute for Tropical Agriculture in Witzenhausen and in 1964 became an "Engineer for tropical and subtropical agriculture". An activity abroad followed. In 1965 he began studying agriculture at the Faculty of Agriculture at the Technical University of Berlin . It was interrupted in 1968/69 by a further education made possible by a highly gifted scholarship at the University of Edinburgh (with Douglas Falconer, Alan Robertson, Bill Hill) and brought Dempfle new knowledge in the areas of quantitative genetics , mathematical statistics and animal breeding. In 1969 he moved to the University of Hohenheim (Agricultural University) and graduated here in 1970 as a graduate agricultural engineer. This was followed in 1972 by a doctorate in Hohenheim with Dietrich Fewson and further training as a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University with Charles Roy Henderson in the fields of mathematical statistics and modern methods of animal breeding. Dempfle then worked for Franz Pirchner as a research assistant at the chair for animal breeding at the Agricultural Faculty Weihenstephan at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). In 1978 he completed his habilitation with the Facultas legendi for the subject of biometrics in animal breeding. Dempfle turned down a call for biometrics in Bonn and another for animal breeding in California. In 1983 he became an associate professor for biometric methods in animal breeding at TUM. He then took a break and spent five years abroad as General Director of the International Center for Trypanosome Tolerance in Banjul , Gambia, where he developed breeding programs for cattle, goats and sheep. In 2007 he was retired.

Research engagements

At the center of the scientific work of Leo Dempfle were the methods of genetic statistics , for which he set the standard in Germany and earned a high international reputation. The scientific output of Leo Dempfle's work was reflected in numerous publications in respected specialist journals, countless lectures and contributions at conferences and in a large number of dissertations and diploma theses.

In particular, the following should be mentioned:

  • Lectures on new statistical methods
  • Development of the methodology for the BLUP breeding value estimation procedure in Germany
  • Introduction of the guided field test for yellow cattle
  • Use of crossbreeding in brown cattle
  • Help for PhD students on quantitative genetics and statistics
  • Working abroad: Optimizing milk production in New Zealand; Cooperation in the field of dairy farming with Cuba; Breeding river buffalo in the Philippines
  • Supervision of breeding projects: goat breeding in North Korea, cattle breeding in Mongolia and on Zanzibar
  • scientific publications

Volunteering

Publications (selection)

  • Contribution to the question of the optimal selection intensity in animal breeding, taking into account genetic and economic factors, Hohenheimer Diss. 1971
  • For breeding value estimation in cattle, habilitation thesis at the Techn. Univ. Munich, Department of Agriculture a. Horticulture, Weihenstephan 1978.
  • Breeding value estimation in cattle with a detailed description of the BLUP method, Parey Hamburg, Berlin 1982 ISBN 978-3-490-05215-5

honors and awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leo Dempfle on the website of the Technical University of Munich pdf accessed on November 10, 2017
  2. ^ German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture Witzenhausen
  3. ↑ Leo Dempfle on the website of DGfZ
personal data
SURNAME Dempfle, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönau