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The death of Volker Römheld on the 27th November 2013 brought deep sadness to all of us who knew him. Born in Schwaig near Nürnberg, Volker was a German agricultural scientist and plant physiologist with a high international reputation. He was a Professor of Plant Nutrition at Hohenheim University, where he worked for many years in close co-operation with his mentor, and later colleague, Horst Marschner during a time of outstanding research activity and achievement, which provided a source of present internationally recognized leaders in Plant Nutrition. For the last twenty years or so, Volker was a visiting professor at China Agricultural University (Beijing) and Zheijiang Agricultural University (Hangzhou). He very much enjoyed this contact with China, where he felt at home, in co-operating in the university research programs as well as supporting many young Chinese researchers in their first steps in science.