Georg Friedrich Backhaus (born 1955 in Freienhagen, Hessen, Germany) is a German agricultural scientist specializing in horticulture and phytomedicine.
[1] After taking his school-leaving exams at the Alten Landesschule, Korbach, in 1973 he took up studies in Biology and Social Sciences at the Comprehensive University of Kassel.
In 1986 Dr. Backhaus took over as director of the Department of Plant Protection in Horticulture at the Provincial Chamber of Agriculture in Weser-Ems.
In 1993 he moved to the Biologischen Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft (Federal Biology Institute of Agriculture and Forestry) in Braunschweig, taking over as Director and Professor of the Institut für Pflanzenschutz im Gartenbau (Institute of Plant Protection in Horticulture): He was appointed President of the Biologischen Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft (BBA, see above) in Braunschweig in 2002.
After re-organising and amalgamating various provincial research institutions he was appointed Professor and President of the Julius Kuehn-Institute.