History of the Department of Organic Farming and Cropping

May 2021	Prof. Dr. Miriam Athmann becomes scientific director of the Hessian State Estate Frankenhausen (teaching and experimental farm of the University Kassel)
Feb. 2021	Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heß becomes new Chairman of the Board of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) Germany
Jan. 2021	Prof. Dr Miriam Athmann (University of Bonn) follows Prof. Dr Jürgen Heß as the new head of section
June 2019	Organisation of the second nationwide Eco-Field Days together with Fibl and SÖL on the Hessian State Estate Frankenhausen
June 2017	Organisation of the first nationwide Eco-Field Days together with Fibl and SÖL on the Hessian State Estate Frankenhausen
2016	Apl. Prof. Dr. Peter von Fragstein retires
19./20.4.2006	Celebration: 25 years Department Organic Farming and Cropping Systems and Academic day Organic agriculture Witzenhausen: from Department to Faculty
2005	Organizer of the 8th (German) Scientific conference Organic Agriculture "End of the niche" as lead-managing department for the Faculty Organic Agricultural Sciences in collaboration with the Institute Organic Agriculture of the Federal Agency for Agriculture, Trenthorst, and the Foundation "Ökologie und Landbau", Bad Dürkheim
2002	Renaming of the department into Department of Organic Farming and Cropping
2000	Dr. habil. Peter von Fragstein was appointed Apl. Prof. of Organic Vegetable Production
1999	End of 18 years Research farm, Neu-Eichenberg
1998	Hessian State Estate Frankenhausen as new Research farm for organic agriculture and sustainable rural development of the faculty lead-managed by the Department of Ecological Agriculture
1997	Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heß (University of Natural Resources & Applied Life Sciences, Vienna) successor of Prof. Dr. Hartmut Vogtmann
1996	Start of a complete study Ecological Agriculture including BSc and MSc level
1995	Start of the Pilot project Ecological Agriculture
1994	Prof. Dr. Hartmut Vogtmann leaves the department in order to become President of the Hessian Office for Rural Development and Agriculture
1993	Start of the 3rd year specialisation Ecological Agriculture as new choice for the final study year
1992	Organizer of the 2nd (German) Scientific conference Organic Agriculture - Research in organic agriculture - in collaboration with the Foundation Ökologie & Landbau, Bad Dürkheim
1992	Renaming of the department into Department of Ecological Agriculture
1991	Organizer of the 1st (German) Scientific conference Organic Agriculture - exchange of experiences between scientists - in collaboration with the Foundation Ökologie & Landbau, Bad Dürkheim
1984	Organizer of the 5th IFOAM conference at Castle Ludwigstein in collaboration of the Department of Organic Animal Husbandry (Prof. Dr. Boehncke)
1981	Foundation of the Department of Methods of Alternative Agriculture and appointment of Prof. Dr. Hartmut Vogtmann, director of the Research Institute of Biological Agriculture (FIBL) in Oberwil/CH