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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 ...

Prize Award for Concept Ideas on the Historical Show Vineyard of Eberbach Monastery
Source: Tina Kissinger

Students of Landscape Architecture Provide Concepts for Future Use of the Spitalberg

The Foundation Kloster Eberbach as well as the Hessische Staatsweingüter (Hessian State Wineries) GmbH Kloster Eberbach in cooperation with SlowFood Rheingau and the Verein zur Förderung des Historischen Weinbaues im Rheingau e.V. (Association for ...

Viticulture in (climate) change: challenges for production and the product
Prof. Dr. Hans Reiner Schultz and Prof. Dr. Alain Blanchard.

Experts from Hochschule Geisenheim University, the Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin of the University of Bordeaux and the OIV - Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin discussed the problems and opportunities for the wine sector in Brussels.

Wine has long outgrown its classic growing regions, with wineries operating as successful businesses in countries where they were regarded as a curiosity just a few decades ago. In addition to globalization, climate change is the main driver of this ...

22nd International Geisenheim Conference on Grapevine Propagation
Source: Winfried Schönbach

An event offering a unique international platform for experience exchange

 

Over 160 participants from 20 countries showed considerable interest in the International Geisenheim Conference on Grapevine Propagation which was held at Hochschule Geisenheim University from 28 – 30 June 2018.


The introduction of the phylloxera ...