Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rimpau , Chairman of the German Agricultural Society e.V.
„Nachhaltige Entwicklung beginnt im Kopf und setzt Impulse für den Fortschritt frei. Bildung, Forscherdrang und Erfindergeist sind ihre Treibstoffe. Unternehmertum und Zivilgesellschaft sind ihre Motoren.”
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Born on 15 May 1944
Vocational career
| 1963 | Abitur (high school leaving certificate) |
| 1963-1964 | Practical training in agriculture |
| 1964-1968 | Studies in agriculture in Göttingen |
| 1968-1972 | Research and vocational training in the breeding of plants and genetics |
| 1972 | PhD in plant breeding |
| 1972-1975 | Fundamental research in genome structure and the gene function of cereal types in Cambridge/England. Amongst other things, in the working group of F. Crick (Doppelhelix ) for the chromosome substructure of humans, animals, plants, bacteria. Study of molecular genetics |
| 1975-1981 | Heisenberg scholarship in Göttingen |
| 1975-1981 | Applied research in the baking qualities of wheat and basic research in the gene regulation of plants |
| Apprenticeship in plant breeding and genetics | |
| 1976 | State doctorate in the subject Applied Genetics and Plant Breeding in Göttingen |
| 1978 | Appointment as a C3 professor (applied genetics) in Hanover. This appointment was refused. |
| 1981 | Professor for Applied Genetics and Plant Breeding, Göttingen |
| 1978 | Takes over parents’ tenanted farm, Domäne Voldagsen Einbeck, Lower Saxony, a 300 ha market fruit cultivation business |
| 1991 | Establishment of a market fruit cultivation business in Langenstein near Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt |
| (at present, 1,600 ha. with a staff of 8) | |
| 1996 | Establishment of an aquaculture plant in Voldagsen for the production of eels with direct marketing (farm shop, Internet) for diversification and independence of EU support. (1st seal of quality possessor of an integrated fish production business of the Agricultural Chamber, Hanover) |
| Successful research project with the support of the DBU for biological purification of sewage | |
| 2002 | Transfer of tenanted farm, Domäne Voldagsen, and securing of tenanted farm in Saxony Anhalt by purchasing property |
Marital status
Married, two children
Honorary activities
- DLG Committee (German Agricultural Society) (1995 - January 2010)
- Chairman of the DLG Strategy Council for Questions on the
Future of Agriculture - Honorary Director of Innovation Commission and the Wilhelm Rimpau Prize
- Honorary Director of the DLG Colloquium on Environmental Questions in Agriculture
- Founding Member of the Working Group Agriculture – Nature Protection of DLG and WWF
- Foundation Initiative for the Subject Sustainability of the DLG
- Member in the National Committee of Biosphere Reservations in the Federal Ministry of Environment (BMU)
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