Peter Schuhmann

This article is about the agricultural scientist Peter Schuhmann. For the theater director and sculptor see Peter Schumann , for the publicist see Peter B. Schumann .

Peter Schuhmann

Peter Schuhmann (born August 8, 1937 in Dresden ) is a German crop scientist. He is one of the leading crop scientists in the specialty of the potato.

Life path

After graduating from high school, Schuhmann studied agriculture at the University of Leipzig from 1955 to 1961 . This was followed by ten years as head of large agricultural companies. Many innovations and the proximity to agricultural research also laid the foundation for the subsequent practice-oriented scientific activity. The change to science took place after an apprenticeship at the Timirjasew Academy in Moscow (from 1971 to 1973) by taking up work (from 1974) at the Institute for Potato Research Groß Lüsewitz of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences (AdL). Here were also made Habilitation (1981) and appointed professor of AdL (1982). Until the dissolution of the institute after reunification, he worked as director of the production research department in Groß Lüsewitz. Until he retired, he worked at the newly founded State Research Center for Agriculture and Fisheries of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Gülzow as head of the arable farming department and deputy head of the Institute for Crop Production. After his retirement , Schuhmann was involved in association work for the German potato industry and as a consultant for crop production in Russian-speaking countries.

Research and Teaching

The content of his research work, publications and his lectures include arable and plant cultivation as well as technological issues relating to the cultivation, storage and marketing of potatoes. He held guest lectures at the Humboldt University in Berlin , the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and other universities with an agricultural profile. He has supervised numerous doctoral students, prepared reports on 18 dissertations and 9 post-doctoral theses as well as 16 reports on research reports from other scientific institutions and 5 reports for insurance companies and courts. The results of his own research are written down in 35 research reports. At home and abroad, Schuhmann has well over 300 publications in the specialist press. There are also over 200 lectures at home and abroad. In the course of his professional life and in the period that followed, he has organized and directed a large number of specialist conferences with national and international participation. His work abroad focused on Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland and Hungary.

voluntary work

• Member of the "Technology / Mechanization" section of the GDR Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1980 to 1990)
• Member of the "Crop Production" section of the GDR Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1984 to 1990)
• Head of the "Potato Production" working group of the Agricultural Society of the GDR (1980 to 1990)
• Chairman of the Association of Potato Storage, Packing and Peeling Companies (KLAS eV) from 1992 to 2010.

Major works

• Industrial cultivation and storage of potatoes , in: Potatoes - Breeding, Propagation , Cultivation Technology, Uradshaj, Minsk 1988 (Russian)
• with H. Gall: Production of potatoes , VEB Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1990
• Agricultural professional MV - guide for agriculture in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , book edition Agrimedia, Spithal 1997
• The production of seed potatoes , Agrimedia book edition, Spithal 1997
• with D. Spaar: Potato cultivation , Moscow 1997 (Russian)
• Cultivation of potatoes according to QS , Agrimedia, Spithal 2004
• Processing, storage and marketing of potatoes according to QS , Agrimedia, Spithal 2004

As a co-author, Schuhmann was involved in the series of university textbooks in Russian for the following volumes, which was edited by D. Spaar:

• Potato (Moscow, 1997; Minsk, 1999; Torzhok, 2004; Kiev, 2006; Moscow, 2007),
• Grain (Minsk, 2000; Moscow, 2008)
• Oilseed rape and turnip rape (Moscow, 2007),
• Sugar beet (Minsk, 2000, 2004; Moscow 2006),
• Grain legumes (Minsk, 2000),
• Seeds and plants (Berlin, 2001),
• Plant protection (Torzhok, 2003),
• Forage plants (Torzhok, 2002; Moscow, 2009),
• Corn (Moscow, 2006),
• Renewable raw materials (St. Petersburg, 2006)

editor

• with E. Pötke: Edible fresh potatoes - producing, recording, storing, marketing quality , Agrimedia book edition, Spithal 1997.
• The production of potatoes for industrial processing , book edition Agrimedia, Spithal 1999
• with D. Spaar: Natural bases of plant production in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic States , Agrimedia, Spithal 2000.
• Technical questions for the potato merchant, Agrimedia, Clenze 2008
• with K. Gottschalk Storage and Air Conditioning of Potatoes , Agrimedia, Clenze 2012
• Potatoes in the crop rotation part 1 and part 2, DLG-Verlag 2014
• Commodity knowledge potatoes , Agrimedia, Clenze 2019
• Potato trends (trade magazine published once a year), Agrimedia, Clenze, since 2001

Honors

• Honorary title "Master builder of cooperative production" (1968)
• Silver Badge of Honor of the Agricultural Society of the GDR (1983)
• Gold Badge of Honor of the Agricultural Society of the GDR (1985)
• Vice President of the Agricultural Society (1990)
• Honorary doctorate from the Agricultural University of Keczthely (1992)
• Plant Breeding Prize of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (2010)

literature

• C. Gienapp: Laudation for Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Peter Schuhmann . Announcements from the State Research Center for Agriculture and Fisheries Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, issue 30, 2003
• G. Erbe: Prof. Dr. Dr. sc. Peter Schuhmann has reached the age of 65 . Potato growing 8/2002.
• Prof. Peter Schuhmann 70 years old . Potato growing, 8/2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Schuhmann in the catalog of the German National Library