Highest DLG honors for Prof. Dr. Achim Stiebing

Submitted by Fleischportal.de am 27. February 2017, Published in Heads - people in the industry

(DLG). The DLG (German Agricultural Society) has its previous Vice President Prof. Dr. Achim Stiebing (Lemgo) was awarded the Max Eyth Medal in Gold and made him an honorary member. With this, the DLG honors his extraordinary services to the DLG as well as to practical and application-oriented meat research and development. DLG President Carl-Albrecht Bartmer presented the certificate and medal in the presence of Federal Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt at the general meeting at the DLG winter conference on February 21, 2017 in Hanover. Bartmer praised Prof. Stiebing as a pioneer and trailblazer of the modern meat industry and meat technology. “He is a pioneer, initiator and guide, but above all an outstanding scientist with an international reputation”.

The trained butcher and studied food technologist Prof. Stiebing started in 1977 at the DLG as a research assistant and expert in today's DLG test center for food. He shaped the DLG technical and test work significantly as the scientific head of quality testing for raw meat products and canned sausages and as a member of the DLG commission for the meat industry. Since 2004 he has also been a member of the Board of Management; In 2006 Prof. Stiebing was elected one of the two vice presidents of the DLG. Prof. Stiebing has been chairman of the food test center since 2004.

Prof. Stiebing has turned his passion into a job. Thinking outside the box was always important to him, which made him a valued discussion partner in the DLG committees. His professional career led him via the Federal Institute for Meat Research in Kulmbach in 1991 to the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences, where he worked as a visionary and pioneer until his retirement last year. He was particularly interested in raw sausages and ham and especially salami. Numerous publications on the degree of ripeness or drying errors, for example, testify to his insatiable urge to research, according to Bartmer. In 2016, Prof. Stiebing received the Martin Lerche Medal for his professional life's work, which is only awarded to ten living personalities in the meat industry.
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In addition to research, Prof. Stiebing's voluntary commitment to the industry was extraordinarily diverse: Among other things, he was on the advisory board of the 'meat industry' of the German publishing house and in the specialist committee "Meat and Meat Products" of the German Food Book Commission and he has been a member of the board of trustees since 2006 the Stiftung Warentest.

Promoting the next generation of management staff for the meat industry at home and abroad has always been particularly important to him. In the words of the DLG President, a large number of outstanding managers in the meat industry have emerged from Prof. Stiebing's school, who now hold high-ranking positions. “The Stiebing School can be found in practice and in companies,” Bartmer emphasized in conclusion.

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DLG President Carl-Albrecht Bartmer (r.) Presented the DLG's highest awards to Prof. Dr. Achim Stiebing.

Dr. Diedrich Harms (Bremen) new chairman of the DLG test center for food
At the same time member of the board and vice president - election at the DLG winter conference in Hanover

(DLG). The entire committee of the DLG (German Agricultural Society) has Dr. Diedrich Harms (Bremen) elected the new chairman of the DLG Food Test Center at the winter conference in Hanover. This means that he is also a member of the DLG board and vice president. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Achim Stiebing (Lemgo), who decided not to be re-elected for reasons of age. The food chemist Dr. Harms has been contributing his expertise to the specialist and quality work of the DLG since 2006.

After studying chemistry and food chemistry at the Universities of Marburg and Münster, Dr. Harms a doctorate in natural sciences. From 1999 to 2006 he was responsible for quality control in the König Brewery (Duisburg). Then he moved to the Experimental and Training Institute for Brewery (VLB) in Berlin, where Dr. Harms headed the central laboratory until 2015 and then became head of the research institute for spirits, analysis technology and sensor technology. Since 2016 he has been Head of Analytics and Expert Services at Intertek Food Service GmbH. Dr. Harms is co-editor of numerous specialist articles and speaker at national and international conferences. He is the scientific director of the international DLG quality test for beer and mixed beer beverages as well as for soft drinks. Since 2012, Dr. Harms joined the DLG Test Center for Food, of which he was previously deputy chairman.
The managing director of the DLG test center for food, Rudolf Hepp, expressed himself about the choice of Dr. Harms is very satisfied with the new chairman. "Due to the close connection to practice, his extensive experience as a scientist and his instinct for setting the strategic course, Dr. Harms help to further develop and strengthen the technical and test work of the DLG. "