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News Archive (dating back to 2013)

HGU Quiz – the Duel

Interactive quiz supports eLearning launch at Hochschule Geisenheim University and gives students the opportunity to practice exam questions.

Every launch is as good as the communication accompanying it! To accompany the publication of the first digital learning modules for the “Information Technology” course, Hochschule Geisenheim University’s Didactics and eLearning department have ...

Professor Müller-Thurgau Prize 2018 award for Dr. Franz Josef Jung and Ingmar Jung
Das Verwaltungsgebäude auf dem Campus der Hochschule Geisenheim © Winfried Schönbach

The prize, which is awarded jointly by the “VEG” – the Geisenheim Alumni Association e.V. – and Hochschule Geisenheim University, honours outstanding contributions to research and teaching at the Geisenheim institution. On November 10 2018 the Rheingau will welcome the Federal Minister for Agriculture Julia Klöckner, who will be presenting the award.

The winners of the Professer Müller-Thurgau Prize 2018 have been announced: this year the panel, consisting of the executive committee of the “VEG” – Geisenheim Alumni Association e.V. and the President’s Council of Hochschule Geisenheim University, ...

New interactive tours

Get to know the campus and Geisenheim in an innovative way!

In addition to the tour "G-FÜHRT!" the University Didactics and eLearning team now offers two further interactive tours to students at Hochschule Geisenheim University:


"HGU Ersti-Tour" gives new students the opportunity to independently explore the ...

“Zierpflanzentag Südwest” (ornamental plant symposium) focuses on plant protection and „Blütenbesucher“ ( flower-visiting insects)
Source: Winfried Schönbach

The symposium took place on September 12 at Hochschule Geisenheim University

Plant protection is one of the central topics in ornamental plant cultivation. Our products have to be perfect, unblemished and healthy and we cannot tolerate leaf damage and other damages. At the same time, we sell the products intact and in full ...

Large crowds at the Geisenheim “Grape Variety Days” 2018
Source: Tina Kissinger

Spotlight on PIWIs, Riesling types, Burgundy variations and climate change

Once again the Geisenheim Grape Variety Days 2018 held at Hochschule Geisenheim University offered the interested public an exciting program, this time devoted to the grape varieties of the future – and, as usual during the two-day event, there was ...

Change of leadership at the Department of Beverage Research
Source: Flüssiges Obst

Privatdozent Dr. Ralf Schweiggert succeeds Prof. Dr. Helmut Dietrich.

After 28 years as Head of the Department of Wine Analysis and Beverage Research, Prof. Dr. Helmut Dietrich hands over the reins to PD Dr. Ralf Schweiggert, who took up his duties at our university on 1. September 2018.


35-year old Dr. Schweiggert ...

Yeasts and Jests
Prof. Dr. Manfred Grossmann during this year´s graduation ceremony on July 13

Prof. Dr. Manfred Grossmann, Head of the Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry and former Vice-President for Research at Hochschule Geisenheim University retires.

On July 13, during this year’s graduation ceremony, the President of Hochschule Geisenheim University, Prof. Dr. Hans Reiner Schultz paid tribute to Prof. Dr. Manfred Grossmannon the occasion of his retirement.


“The optimist saddles the future and ...

Geisenheim logistics experts cooperate with top American universities

Prof. Dr. Andreas Holzapfel, Professor for Logistics Management at Hochschule Geisenheim University, and Dr. Michael Sternbeck, adjunct instructor in retail management at Geisenheim, visit the University of North Carolina.

For more than half of the products they sell, retailers often have no correct data on the quantities available in the stores. Cashier errors and theft are only two of the many reasons why discrepancies occur between the actual quantities in the store ...

Hochschule Geisenheim University and the Foreign Affairs Office of Ningxia Autonomous Region, China sign Letter of Intent
The General Director of the Ningxia’s Foreign Affairs Office, Kang Zhanping, and the President of Hochschule Geisenheim University, Prof. Dr. Hans Reiner Schultz © Hochschule Geisenheim University

The goal of this agreement is to promote cooperation between Hochschule Geisenheim University and the higher education institutions of the Ningxia Region. This applies to research projects as well as student exchanges.

At the beginning of August 2018 Hochschule Geisenheim University played host to a high-ranking delegation from the Autonomous Region of Ningxia Hui, China. During the visit the General Director of the region’s Foreign Affairs Office, Kang Zhanping, ...

Hochschule Geisenheim University bids farewell to 149 graduates
The Graduates © Hochschule GeisenheimUniversity / Winfried Schönbach

On the occasion of the academic graduation ceremony the University and other donors also awarded four prizes: the Landscape Architecture Study Prize, the Dr. Werner Hoffmann Prize, the Rudolf Hermanns Foundation Prize and the Karl Bayer Prize.

Radiant faces and flying caps in the historical park of Hochschule Geisenheim University on Friday July 13, 2018. At the end of the 2018 summer semester the University honored 149 successful students at the graduation ceremony. They are now setting ...