Norbert Makowski

Norbert Makowski (2009)

Norbert Makowski (born November 18, 1932 in Berlin ; † August 18, 2016 in Rostock ) was a German crop scientist and author and, thanks to his extensive public relations work, is one of the best-known East German agricultural scientists. Even after reunification, he was able to successfully continue his research and transition activities throughout Germany and in Eastern Europe.

Life

Makowski completed an agricultural apprenticeship and, after graduating from high school, studied agriculture with a specialization in agricultural chemistry at the Rostock University . After completing his studies (1957), he worked for 10 years at the Institute for Arable and Crop Production at the University of Rostock. He received his doctorate in 1964 and completed his habilitation six years later. In 1970 he took on a managerial position within the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR and in 1979 was appointed professor for crop science. 1990 Award of the Facultas Docendi by the University of Rostock. After reunification he worked until his retirement in 1997 as head of the research center for renewable raw materials and horticulture and deputy director of the institute for arable and crop production in the newly founded state research institute for agriculture and fisheries Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. After his retirement he worked at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Technology in Munich, as an external scientist at the State Research Center for Agriculture and Fisheries Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, as a consultant in Eastern Europe and as a columnist for the farmers' newspaper.

Teaching and Research

Makowski was a lecturer for field testing and biostatistics at the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Rostock for 22 years. He has also given guest lectures in Berlin, Halle, Stettin, Prague, Minsk, Poltava and Florence. Makowski accompanied numerous diploma theses, 42 dissertations and 6 habilitations.

Research achievements to be highlighted:

• Production of brewing barley in the Baltic Sea coast area
• Creation of a mathematical model for the yield structure of the grain
• Production of baking wheat on diluvial soils
• Development of the production processes for winter rape and winter rye
• Introduction of winter rapeseed cultivation in regions east of the Bug (Belarus, Ukraine)
• Optimization of the cultivation of alternative oil fruits (crambe, camelina)
• Decontamination of polluted soils in the Chernobyl zone
• Revitalization of mixed crop cultivation in organic farming in Bavaria and Austria
• Creation of conditions for organic farming in Romania
• Cultivation of "lost crops" on dry sandy soils
• Measures to preserve the endangered rough-wooled Pomeranian sheep

Makowski reports on the results of his research work and their application in over 1,600 scientific, popular science and agricultural journalistic publications. He is the author and co-author of 13 manuals and textbooks in Germany and Eastern Europe. His public relations work includes around 700 lectures that he gave between Toronto and Moscow, both at international congresses and in the hall of a village pitcher.

honors and awards

• 1987: National Prize of the GDR for science and technology class III
• 2006: Honorary doctorate from the oldest Russian agricultural university in Gorky, now the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy in Gorky
• 2008: Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Rostock

Fonts (selection)

• Writings on arable and plant cultivation topics of grain, oil and protein crops. Volumes I – V, Rostock University Library and German National Library Leipzig (contains the complete list of publications and copies of selected articles)
• About the natural suitability of the northern part of Mecklenburg for malting barley production and the influence on yield and quality through weather and cultivation measures. Dissertation (A) University of Rostock 1964
• Investigations on increasing the yield of winter and spring barley by means of agrotechnical measures while recording functional relationships in the increase in yield. Dissertation (B) University of Rostock 1970
• Co-author of: Manfred Seiffert : Threshing and root crop production. VEB Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag Berlin 1981
• First experiences with growing winter rape (Russian). Minsk 1988
• Production process winter rape. Publishing house Th. Mann, Gelsenkirchen 1990
• Oil fruits and grain legumes. In: Textbook of plant cultivation. Editors: N. Lütke Entrup and J. Oehmichen. Publishing house Th. Mann, Gelsenkirchen 2000
• (with D. Spaar et al.) Grains. Volumes I-II (Russian) Moscow 2008 (recognized as university textbooks in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine)

literature

• Hans-Joachim Michel: Appointed professor. SVZ Schwerin, February 1979
• Eugen Roth: A union for rapeseed. New German farmers newspaper 21/1979
• Angela Golz: Oilseeds versus Radiation. Ostsee-Zeitung April 27, 1996
• Fritz Tack: To say goodbye to Norbert Makowski from professional life. Agricultural Faculty of the University of Rostock, November 28, 1997
• Christian Gienapp: Laudation for Prof. Dr. Norbert Makowski on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Lecture conference on harvest crop production at the University of Rostock and the State Research Institute Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania November 1997
• Elke Ehlers: A life for rapeseed . Ostsee-Zeitung November 1997
• Jutta Heise: Rapeseed or: I want to finish the matter. Farmers newspaper. 45/97
• Till Backhaus: laudation on the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Norbert Makowski. in Rostock-Biestow, November 2002
• AR Zyganow, Rector of the Agrarian University Gorki: Ceremonial lecture on the award of an honorary doctorate to Prof. Dr. Norbert Makowski (Russian) Gorki 10/2006
• Till Backhaus: Lecture for Prof. Dr. Dr. hc N. Makowski. October 2, 2008 University of Rostock
• Christian Gienapp: Laudation for the award of the honorary doctorate by the University of Rostock on October 2, 2008.
• Theophil Gerber: Norbert Makowski in: Personalities in agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine: Bibliographic lexicon. Verlag Nora, 3rd edition 2008
• Gerd Rinas: A life dedicated to research. Bauern-Zeitung 41/2008
• Kristin Nölting: Awarding of an honorary doctorate to Prof. Dr. N. Makowski through the University of Rostock. Profile 4/08
• Christian Gienapp: Great achievements in research. Bauernblatt Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, October 10, 2008

Web links

• Literature by and about Norbert Makowski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Norbert Makowski in the state bibliography MV
• Website by Norbert Makowski

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Rape professor Norbert Makowski died" , Ostsee-Zeitung , August 24, 2016