Wolfgang Rudolph (agronomist)

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Wolfgang Rudolph (born August 1, 1930 in Halle (Saale) ; † January 4, 2020 in Rostock ) was a German agricultural scientist and professor for small animal breeding and genetics at the University of Rostock .

Live and act

Rudolph was born in Halle (Saale). In February 1945 he witnessed the heavy bombing raids on Dresden . After graduating from high school in Halle (1949) and agricultural apprenticeship, he studied agriculture at the University of Halle and graduated in 1954 with the diploma examination. This was followed by work as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Poultry Farming in Merbitz (today Wettin-Löbejün, Saalekreis). In 1960 he received his doctorate from the Agricultural and Horticultural Faculty of the Humboldt University Berlin (HUB) with Prof. Fritz Lützenberg as Dr. agr. and in the following year became department head at the Merbitz Institute, which was subordinated to the newly founded Association of Nationally Owned Enterprises (VVB) animal breeding in Paretz in 1962/1963 .

In 1965, Rudolph moved to the Volkseigen Gut (VEG) Greifswald and worked here as the poultry breeding department manager . A year later he completed his habilitation at the HUB and became a lecturer for poultry and small animal breeding at the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Rostock, from 1969 in the animal production section there. From 1976 he taught here as a full professor for small animal breeding and domestic animal genetics, and from 1990 again at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. He retired in 1992 and died on January 4, 2020 in Rostock.

Research focus

  • Poultry breeding, keeping and feeding; Duck production
  • In the 1980s, cytogenetic studies on rabbits and other small animals
  • Inheritance of special characteristics in connection with domestication as well as influences on product quality
  • 2003 Clarification of the inheritance of the curvature of the beak in crooked ducks using computer-aided chromosome analysis
  • Organization of three international symposia

Honorary office / memberships (selection)

  • 1984–1990 Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Agricultural Sciences at the Univ. Rostock
  • 1960 Participation in the establishment of the GDR branch of the World`s Poultry Science Association
  • 1961–2004 member of the World's Poultry Science Association
  • 1990–2002 member of the World Rabbit Science Association
  • 1979, 1983, 1986 Organization of international symposia "The rabbit as a model animal and breeding object"
  • 1984 Colloquium in honor of the 100th anniversary of Gregor Mendel's death

Honor

  • 1984 Gregor Mendel Memorial Medal

Publications (selection)

  • Contributions to the question of the protein requirement of fattening ducks Diss. Humboldt University Berlin, 1960.
  • Comparative studies on the slaughter value of Peking ducks and hybrids of dwarf pelvis x Peking duck with regard to the breeding of a so-called broiler duck. Hab.-Schr. Humboldt University Berlin, 1966.
  • The duck fattening. Berlin, 1st edition 1958; 2nd edition 1961.
  • The domestic ducks. Three editions (1975, 1978, 2004).
  • The house rabbit. With Kalinowski and Agnes Knopp, two editions (1982, 1984), wild and domestic rabbits as 3rd exp. Edition, 1997.
  • Knopp, Agnes, Brunner, RM, Ahne, R., Huhn, P., Rudolph, W. (1989). The analysis of animal chromosomes with the image processing system A 6471. Arch. Tierzucht, Berlin 32, pp. 411-419.
  • Brunner, R, M, Knopp, Agnes, Rudolph, W. (1992): Rabbit chromosome analysis by image processing. J. Appl. Rabbit Res., Corvaliis OR (USA), 15, pp. 352-362 (Proc. 5th World Congr. WRSA, Corvaliis OR, USA).
  • Firestorm of irrepressible power. Münster (2014, 2015).

Web links

literature

  • Rudolph, Wolfgang. In: Rostock professor catalog.
  • Pingel, Heinz: Obituary for Prof. Dr. agr. habil. Wolfgang Rudolph, Rostock. In: Züchtungskunde, 92, 2020, H. 2, 134-135.
  • Gerber, Theophil: Personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine. 4th ext. Edition, 2014, NORA Berlin, Vol. 2, pp. 646–647.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, Berlin 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death announcements for Wolfgang Rudolph in the Baltic Sea Zeitung on 01.11.2020
  2. ↑ Acknowledgments in the Ostseezeitung from January 25th, 2020
  3. ^ Wolfgang Rudolph in the Rostock professor catalog
  4. ↑ Obituary in breeding customers
personal data
SURNAME Rudolph, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geneticist, poultry farmer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2020
Place of death Rostock