Alexander Grundner-Culemann

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Alexander Grundner-Culemann (also Alexander Culemann ; born September 28, 1885 in Braunschweig ; † July 16, 1981 ) was a German forester and politician . He worked mainly in Goslar , initially as the city ​​forest manager and from 1952 to 1958 as the city's mayor .

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Alexander Culemann came from an old forest family in Brunswick. After the early death of his father, Chief Forester A. Culemann, he was adopted by his uncle August Friedrich Julius Grundner , who at the time was a forest master and councilor in Braunschweig. Since then he has called himself Alexander Grundner-Culemann. From 1895 to 1904 he attended high school in Wolfenbüttel , where he also passed the Abitur. This was immediately followed by a forestry apprenticeship at the Stiege State Forestry Office in the Harz Mountains and then studying forest sciences at the Universities of Munich and Giessen and at the Royal Prussian Forest Academy in Hann. Münden . After the legal clerkship exam in 1910, he returned to his home country for his legal clerkship , which he completed in 1913 with the assessor exam .

The First World War then interrupted his further professional career, which he was only able to pursue after completing his military service as a reserve officer - Alexander Grundner-Culemann was awarded the Iron Cross First Class . From 1918 he began his time as assessor in the Brunswick civil service as an employee of the forest management institute . But as early as 1921 the city of Goslar transferred the management of its city forest office to him, which he then managed until 1952. Like his predecessor Carl Reuss was also Grundner-Culemann of extra-economic importance of the time 3,000 hectares large municipal forest deliberately and promoted the use of the relaxation and adventure for tourism . He developed the urban forest to the preferred tourist center of the Northern Harz by expanding the forest path network in an exemplary manner, setting up benches and building shelters and other recreational facilities. For reasons of forest aesthetics , he had mixed woods brought into the otherwise pure spruce stands, but as an old-school forester he otherwise represented a decidedly conservative forest management. However, it is thanks to his economic approach that all times of crisis and imposed logging during his term of office were not able to impair the structure of the urban forest reserves and thus sustainable forest management was always guaranteed.

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In addition, Grundner-Culemann headed the army technical school for forestry in Goslar for many years , worked as managing director of the community forest owners association of the province of Hanover and as nature conservation and hunting officer for the urban district of Goslar. In keeping with tradition, he also chaired the Harz Club branch in Goslar from 1921 to 1935 and from 1949 to 1952 . He also worked as a local researcher , was a member of the History and Heritage Protection Association and the Museum Association of Goslar and published, among other things, studies on field names from the Goslar area. A collection of minerals he had created became the property of the Natural Science Association of Goslar.

Grave site in the old cemetery in Goslar

After his retirement he became more politically active and was elected councilor in the city council of Goslar. From 1952 to 1958, Alexander Grundner-Culemann held the office of Lord Mayor of Goslar. In 1964 he retired from local politics.

On March 13, 1959, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his services to the city of Goslar. In the Goslar district of Ohlhof, the Grundner-Culemann-Straße reminds of him. The Alex-Quelle, which is located directly on Granetalstrasse and lined by the Harz Club, was named after him on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

Grundner-Culemann died on July 16, 1981.

Fonts

  • The field names of the Goslar district , contributions to the history of the city of Goslar
    • Part 2: Names from the area of ​​urban forest , contributions to the history of the city of Goslar (Volume 19), Goslar 1960
    • Part 3: Names from the area of ​​the Feldmark and the monastery forest , contributions to the history of the city of Goslar (Volume 22), Goslar 1966
  • The Goslarer Hut und Weide from its beginnings to the common divisions in the 19th century. Articles and sources , contributions to the history of the city of Goslar (Volume 31), Goslar 1977

literature

  • Zoltán Rozsnyay, Frank Kropp: Alexander Grundner-Culemann , in this .: Lower Saxony Forest Biography. A source volume. From the forest (1998): Messages from the Lower Saxony State Forest Administration (Issue 51). Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests (MELF), Wolfenbüttel 1998. pp. 198–199
  • Horst Matthaei: Alexander Grundner-Culemann, City Forester and Lord Mayor of the Imperial City of Goslar on his 75th birthday . In: Der Forst- und Holzwirt , 15th year, issue 19/1960, ISSN  0932-9315 , pp. 407-408

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H. Matthaei: Alexander Grundner-Culemann, City Forester and Lord Mayor of the Imperial City of Goslar on his 75th birthday . In: Der Forst- und Holzwirt , 15th year, issue 19/1960, p. 407
  2. ↑ Chronicle of the Harz Club Branch Association Goslar eV Accessed on March 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Grundner-Culemann-Straße (PDF). Website of the city of Goslar, accessed on June 30, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Grundner-Culemann, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Culemann, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester and politician; Lord Mayor of the City of Goslar (1952–1958)
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1981