Walter Liese

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Walter Liese

Walter Liese (born January 31, 1926 in Berlin ) is a German wood researcher and wood biologist .

Life

Walter Liese grew up in Eberswalde . After work and military service in World War II , he studied forestry at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Georg August University of Göttingen in Hann.Münden . He received his doctorate in 1951 at the age of 25 under Herbert Zycha . Between 1951 and 1963 he was initially a scientific assistant at the Forest Research Institute in North Rhine-Westphalia , worked for a year in the wood protection industry and in 1953 went as a scientific assistant to the Forest Botanical Institute of the University of Freiburg, where he worked in 1957habilitated and appointed lecturer and in 1959 became an adjunct professor at the Forest Botanical Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

In 1963, Walter Liese became full professor of wood biology at the University of Hamburg and head of the Institute for Wood Biology and Wood Protection of the Federal Research Center for Forestry and Wood Management , as well as its director for five years. In 1991 he retired .

During his time in Hamburg, Walter Liese supervised more than 40 doctoral theses and 75 diploma theses . He has also worked as a visiting scientist and technical consultant with over 100 assignments in 30 countries worldwide. "Travel to developing countries to promote technical cooperation took Liese to so many countries that it would be easier to list the few that he has not yet visited," says Horst Schulz.

Scientific topics

Walter Liese researched a number of topics, especially the anatomy of wood and bark, wood quality, wound reactions of trees and tree care methods, micromorphology of wood destruction, physiology of wood-destroying fungi, wood protection and storage damage to round wood , bamboo and rattan with around 500 scientific publications 10 books as author and editor.

Since retiring in 1991, Liese has devoted himself primarily to research on bamboo, the “poor man's wood” and has traveled over 20 times to China , Costa Rica , Ghana , Colombia , Thailand , Vietnam , Malaysia , Indonesia and India, among others . During this time he published around 150 scientific papers on bamboo and rattan as well as tree care. He also published u. a. with colleagues books on the anatomy of bamboo, bamboo conservation and tree care, including Bamboo: The Plant and its Uses (2015).

Scientific offices and participation in journals (selection)

(partly former) co-editor of:

  • Wood as a raw material
  • Wood Science and Technology
  • Forstwissenschaftliches Centralblatt
  • Cellulose: Chemistry, Technology
  • Journal of Tropical Forest Science
  • Journal of Bamboo and Rattan
  • World Bamboo and Rattan

Honors

Walter Liese received honorary doctorates from the University of Sopron (1986), the Technical University of Zvolen in what was then Czechoslovakia (1987), the University of Istanbul / Turkey (1987), Poznań / Poland (1991) and Ljubljana / Slovenia (1994). He is a professor at Nanjing University and an honorary member of scientific academies in India, Italy, France, Poland and has received scientific honors in China, GDR, Germany, Finland, Ghana, Great Britain, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Taiwan and the USA . He is also an honorary member of the Association of German Wood Wires .

literature

  • Horst Schulz: Professor Dr. Dr. hc mult. Walter Liese - 65 years old , in: Wood as Raw and Material 49 (1991), pp. 75–84 (today: European Journal of Wood and Wood Products )
  • Olaf Schmidt: Walter Liese 75 years young , in: Holzforschung 55 (2001), pp. 104-105
  • Dieter Eckstein, Uwe Schmitt: Trees and wood for life: Walter Liese 80 years old , in: Wood Science and Technology Volume 40, Number 1, 2-3
  • Dirk Dujesiefken, Dietger Grosser, Thomas Kowol, Gerd Wegener: Professor Dr. Walter Liese - The trailblazer for tree-biologically oriented tree care in Germany, in: Yearbook of Tree Care 2006, 9-10.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Schulz: Professor Dr. Dr. hc mult. Walter Liese - 65 years old , in: Wood as Raw and Material 49 (1991), pp. 75–84 (today: European Journal of Wood and Wood Products)
  2. ↑ Dieter Eckstein, Uwe Schmitt: Trees and wood for life: Walter Liese 80 years old , in: Wood Science and Technology Volume 40, Number 1, 2-3.
personal data
SURNAME Liese, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist and wood biologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin