Wolfgang Adolf Helmut Horn

Background

Horn, Wolfgang Adolf Helmut was born on October 5, 1925 in Braunschweig, Germany. Son of Eduard Field Artillery and Margarethe Artificial Intelligence (Linde) Horn.

Education

Dipl.Ing.Agr., University Hannover, Germany, 1952. Dr.rer.hort.habil., University Hannover, Germany, 1964. Dr.agr., University Berlin, 1955.

Career

Research assistant, U. Berlin, 1952-1956; researcher, Fruit & Food Technology Research Institute, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1956-1962; senior scientist, U. Hannover, 1962-1965; assistant professor, U. Hannover, 1965-1969; associate professor, U. Hannover, 1969-1977; professor, Technology U. Munich, since 1977. Consultant United Nations Development Program, Lesotho, 1980, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Ivory Coast, 1980-1981, Thai Research Organisation, 1990. Director Institute of Floriculture, Weihenstephan, Germany, 1977-1993.

Achievements

• Wolfgang Adolf Helmut Horn has been listed as a noteworthy agriculturist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Sergeant German Army, 1943-1945. Member European Association Plant Breeding Research (section chairman 1981-1988), International Society Horticultural Science, German Genetics Society.

Interests

• Avocations: genealogy, hiking, classic music.

Connections

Married Sigrid I.K. Assmann, April 15, 1954. Children: Dirk H., Eckart Heriot-Watt University.

Father:

Eduard Field Artillery Horn

Mother:

Margarethe Artificial Intelligence (Linde) Horn

Spouse:

Sigrid I.K. Assmann

child:

Dirk H. Horn

child:

Eckart Heriot-Watt University Horn