Ludwig Reiner (agricultural scientist)
Ludwig Reiner (born January 29, 1937 in Riedlhütte , Freyung-Grafenau district , Bavarian Forest) is a German professor emeritus and agricultural scientist . From 1977 to 2002 he taught at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Weihenstephan and is considered a pioneer of agricultural informatics in Germany.
Live and act
After completing his agricultural training including attending agricultural technical schools, Ludwig Reiner studied agricultural sciences at the universities of Hohenheim and Weihenstephan with a diploma. In Hohenheim he became a member of the Corps Germania . At the Institute for Plant Production in Weihenstephan, he received his doctorate in 1965 with the development of a new laboratory method for determining the brewing quality of barley . As part of this doctorate, he developed a micro malting system, which he successfully applied for a patent.
Ludwig Reiner worked as an assistant at the Institute for Crop Production at the University of Bonn from 1965 to 1969 . As an enthusiastic user of the data center, he acquired the basics for his knowledge and skills in electronic data processing; the subject of computer science did not exist back then. At that time he recognized the potential of this new technology for agricultural research and especially crop production . Among other things, he developed extensive FORTRAN programs in Bonn to evaluate the plant cultivation state variety trials that were used in German trial reporting for more than two decades.
In 1969 Ludwig Reiner returned to Weihenstephan, completed his habilitation in the field of crop production and was appointed professor in 1977. With the establishment of the teaching unit for agriculture and research, later renamed the teaching unit for agriculture and computer science in crop production, he laid the foundation for the successful school of the Weihenstephan agricultural computer scientists .
A considerable number of his numerous students are now active in responsible positions at national and international level. Special mention should be made of Anton Mangstl and the former Central Office for Agricultural Documentation and Information (ZADI) in Bonn-Bad Godesberg and as Vice Rector of the German-Jordanian University in Amman, Jordan. From the mid-1970s, Ludwig Reiner and his team developed the plant cultivation information system (ISPLANZ) with field test data from all over Germany for different types of agricultural crops.
The field tests were supplemented by surveys on the fields of farms with the help of the newly developed field card index. This data was used for scientific research in numerous diploma and doctoral theses. ISPFLANZ's knowledge transfer in advice and practice was made possible by a series of books published by DLG Verlag . Another focus was the development of planning and forecasting methods for environmentally friendly agriculture, which he was promoting together with his working group.
The EDP fertilization plan was introduced in advice and practice as early as the early 1980s. This was followed by the development of forecast models in crop protection. The working group also dealt intensively with plant cultivation models and knowledge-based systems. The idea of connecting the EDP fertilization plan to a laboratory led to the founding of the very successful company AGROLAB in Weihenstephan in 1986. Today the AGROLAB-Group is a Europe-wide laboratory group with 1,400 employees in 21 branches (as of 2017). It offers analytics for the areas of agriculture, the environment, water and food as the European price-performance market leader. Around 10,000 samples with up to 800 individual parameters are examined every day. Awards and prizes (as of 2017): “Großer Preis des Mittelstands” , (2016); “ Bavaria's Best 500” , (2015) for the fourth time; " European Best 500" (2010, 2012, 2013); " Entrepreneur of the Year" (2013, 2016) .
Teaching and publications (selection)
As an author, co-author and editor, Ludwig Reiner has written numerous publications or played a key role in their creation. For example: Problems of brewing barley breeding in Europe (1975), Winter barley current (1977), Winter rye current (1979), Weizen current (1981), Hafer current (1983), Barley Varieties (1985), Informationsverarbeitung Agrarwissenschaft (book series 1980-1993, 14 Volumes). At his research and teaching unit in Weihenstephan, more than 100 diploma theses, 34 doctorates and two habilitation theses have been supervised.
A high point in Ludwig Reiner's professional life is the establishment of the Society for Computer Science in Agriculture, Forestry and Food Industry (GIL), which he founded in 1980 together with a small group of colleagues. The GIL was the first scientific society of its kind in Europe and set an example for numerous start-ups in other countries.
The project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research use of databases in agriculture could, together with the publishing house Eugen Ulmer the series of information processing agricultural science , later agrarian computer science set.
His work on the rediscovery of the Bavarian beet attracted particular attention .
Ludwig Reiner is married to Edeltraud Reiner. Both live in Freising and have two sons.
Individual evidence
- ^ Manfred G. Raupp: Requirements for an agricultural database. Manuscript for the “Ispflanz” working group, Munich Weihenstephan / Staffort, 1976
- ↑ Website Agrolab
- ↑ Agrolab, Company of the Year 2013
- ↑ GIL expert network for agricultural informatics
- ↑ Rediscovery of the Bavarian beet
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reiner, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German agricultural scientist and agricultural computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riedlhütte , Freyung district |