Personal and professional background

1958

born in Alfeld/Leine

1976

Abitur at the Alfeld/Leine Gymnasium

1976 - 1978

Military service

1978 - 1979

Agricultural internship

1979 1982

Agriclutural studies at the UAS Kiel, department of organic farming in Osterrönfeld, graduation as Dipl.-Ing

1982 - 1983

Agricultural manager at the agricultural operation Rolf Lass in Kronsburg

1983 - 1984

Chamber of Agriculture Schleswig-Holstein, department of arable farming and crop cultivation, employee in the field of research

1984 - 1987

Agricultural studies at Kiel University, field of crop production, graduation as Dipl.-Ing. agr.

1987 - 1988

Volunteer manager on farm Rolf Lass, Kronsburg

1988 - 1993

scientific employee and doctoral candidate at the Institute of Crop Science and Plant Breeding, professorship for grassland and forage cropping at Kiel University

1993

doctorate as Dr. sc. Agr. with the dissertation “Wachstumsanalytische Untersuchungen zur Dynamik der Qualitätsentwicklung von Deutschem Weidelgras und Knaulgras im Vegetationsablauf in Abhängigkeit von der Stickstoffdüngung und vom Standort”

1993 - 1997

Scientific assistant at the Institute of Crop Science and Plant Breeding, professorship for grassland and forage cropping at Kiel University (Prof. Kornher and Prof. Taube), working area “Entwicklung von Simulationsmodellen zur Ertrags- und Qualitätsentwicklung von Grünland- und Futterpflanzenbeständen“

1996 - 1997

lectureship “Grassland Farming” at the Faculty of Agriculture at the UAS Kiel

1997

appointed as professor at the Faculty of Agriculture at the UAS Kiel in the discipline grassland farming, forage cropping, ecology and ecological farming

seit 2004

Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Agriculture at the UAS Kiel