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Augsburg
May 05 to 07, 2026

Office

Forum Baumpflege GmbH & Co. KG
Allee der Kosmonauten 33 E
12681 Berlin

Phone: +49 (0)30 166 396 460

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Managing Directors: Thomas Amtage and Prof. Dr. Dirk Dujesiefken

Advisory Board Lectures / Yearbook of Arboriculture

  • Dipl.-Ing. Martina Borowski, Editorial assistance „Yearbook of Arboriculture“, Braunschweig
  • Dipl.-Ing. Tanja Büttner, FLL - Forschungsgesellschaft Landschaftsentwicklung Landschaftsbau e.V., Bonn
  • Dipl.-Biol. Gerhard Doobe, GALK - Deutsche Gartenamtsleiterkonferenz
  • Prof. i. R. Dr. Rolf Kehr, HAWK - Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst, Göttingen
  • Dipl.-Ing. Gudrun Kloos, City of Munich, Building Department
  • Dipl.-Biol. Thomas Kowol, Institute of Arboriculture, Hamburg
  • Prof. Dr. Michael Risse, Technische Hochschule Rosenheim
  • Dr. Thomas Schröder, BMLEH (Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat), Bonn
  • Dr. Markus Streckenbach, Sachverständigenbüro für urbane Vegetation, Bochum
  • Dipl.-Biol. Anette Vedder, City of Augsburg, Office for Green Order and Nature Conservation

Advisory board of the Climbing Forum

  • Carsten Beinhoff, Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture (SVLFG), Kassel
  • Martina Borowski, Editor „Baumzeitung“, Braunschweig
  • Mark Bridge, Treemagineers / Ninja Baumpflege Bridge, Basel
  • Kay Busemann, Tree Care School Breisgau, BTB Freiburg
  • Andreas Detter, TreeConsult, Gauting
  • Anja Erni, Astwerk, Roggwil/Schweiz
  • Christian Kruck, Die Baumläufer, Tübingen
  • Dr. Lena Zühlke, Arbor Analyst, Hamburg

Editors of the Yearbook of Arboriculture 2026

  • Prof. Dr. Dirk Dujesiefken, Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Amtage, Organizer of the German Tree Care Conference, Augsburg
  • Dr. Markus Streckenbach, Sachverständigenbüro für urbane Vegetation, Bochum

Editorial assistance

  • Dipl.-Ing. Agrar Martina Borowski, Braunschweig

Editorial Board of the Yearbook of Arboriculture 2026

  • RA Armin Braun, FPS Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Düsseldorf
  • Dipl.-Ing. Tanja Büttner, Forschungsgesellschaft Landschaftsentwicklung Landschaftsbau (FLL), Bonn
  • Prof. Andreas Detter, Brudi & Partner TreeConsult, Gauting
  • Dipl.-Biol. Gerhard Doobe, Redaktion der Deutschen Gartenamtsleiterkonferenz, Hamburg
  • M. A. RAin Katharina Imfeld, FPS Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Düsseldorf
  • Prof. Dr. Claudia Kammann, Hochschule Geisenheim, Institut für angewandte Ökologie
  • Prof. i. R. Dr. Rolf Kehr, HAWK Göttingen, Studiengang Arboristik
  • Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kias, Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
  • Dipl.-Biol. Thomas Kowol, Institut für Baumpflege, Hamburg
  • Werner Liebeton, Kommunale Schadenausgleiche (KSA/HADG), Bochum
  • M. Sc. Torsten Melzer, Behörde für Umwelt, Klima, Energie und Agrarwirtschaft (BUKEA), Hamburg
  • Prof. Dr. Michael Risse, TH Rosenheim
  • Prof. Dr. Steffen Rust, HAWK Göttingen, Studiengang Arboristik
  • Dipl.-Ing. Heinz Schomakers, Bundesverband Garten-, Landschafts- und Sportplatzbau (BGL), Bad Honnef
  • M. Eng. Martin Schreiner, Pflanzenschutzamt Berlin
  • Dr. Thomas Schröder, Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat (BMLEH), Bonn
  • B. Sc. Tobias Seidler, amtage Landschaftsarchitektur | Sachverständigenbüro, Berlin
  • Prof. Martin Thieme-Hack, Hochschule Osnabrück, Fakultät Agrarwissenschaften und Landschaftsarchitektur
  • Dipl.-Biol. Anette Vedder, Amt für Grünordnung, Naturschutz und Friedhofswesen, Stadt Augsburg
  • Dr. Katharina Weltecke, Boden & Baum, Bad Arolsen

Media partners

  • TASPO Baumzeitung
  • AFZ/Der Wald

History

The Augsburger Tree Care Conference (Baumpflegetage) was founded in 1993 by Dr Steffen Wiebe and began life as a two-day event featuring lectures at the City's Congress Hall. In 1995, Dirk Dujesiefken became the Managing Director. The Yearbook of Arboriculture (Jahrbuch der Baumpflege) has been published since 1997 forming a compendium of the papers delivered at the conference. In 1998, the Climbing Forum (Kletterforum) joined the event and provides a unique opportunity for the demonstration and dissemination of practical arboriculture.

Over the years, the conference grew to become the largest tree care event in Germany and in 2009, the conference moved to the Augsburg Trade Fair Centre. Today it is the largest tree care event in Europe with all lectures simultaneously translated from German into English and vice versa.

In 2020, Thomas Amtage took over as Managing Director and is developing new, dynamic ideas for the event.

Participants from over 30 nations now come to Augsburg to learn about the latest developments in tree care.

Read about the early days of the conference in this article.