Alexander Schmook

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Alexander Schmook (* 1888 ; † 1969 ) was Mecklenburg's chief forester from the 1920s to 1940s , and from 1929 to 1933 the city's chief forester of Berlin's Grunewald . He processed his knowledge of forest animals and their hunting in numerous non-fiction books , but also in animal novels , children's and young people's books and lyrical texts . He also wrote under the pseudonym Sandor . After 1945 he lived in Wächtersbach in Hesse.

Works

  • 1950: It was in the Grunewald ... Jagdl. Reminder u. Chats d. last Grunewald forest master. Hanover, Berlin: Verl. Naturkunde
  • 1949: Fate in Animal Life. Mainz: noise
  • 1948: All about the buck. Braunschweig, Berlin, Hamburg: Westermann
  • 1939: When freedom calls ... Animal friendships of an old hunter, vanguard = Verlag Otto Schlegel * Berlin
  • 1938: All about the deer. Berlin: Schlegel
  • 1937: German game in words and pictures. Berlin: Scherl
  • 1937: black coats and red coats. Berlin: Vanguard Verl.
  • 1936: The fox. Berlin: Schlegel
  • 1935: In the green area. Berlin: Vanguard Verl.
  • 1929: Animal tragedies. Neudamm: Neumann

Poems

As a forest assessor , Schmook published poems such as Blümlein's "Hab 'mich lieb" creation (Im Felsgeschrof at May time / A lovely little flower blooms) on postcards .

Non-fiction

His extremely successful non-fiction book Der Fuchs , the first edition of which was published as early as 1936, was reprinted many times and, for the time, shows a sense of ecological relationships that was not self-evident even in specialist books. It described the biology of foxes and their importance in the ecosystem , but also fox hunting . Regarding the latter, the book spoke out against the trap and instead advocated a series of e.g. Partly pioneering alternatives that are largely free of pain for the animal. As early as 1929, Schmook had drawn the hunter's gaze to the situation of the hunted in his animal tragedies .

Often the line between non-fiction and fiction is blurred in his captivatingly written specialist books with titles such as Jäger und Gejelte .

Animal novels and youth literature

Schmook's books for children and young people appeared a. a. in the series Göttinger Jugend-Bücher , which impressed with its particularly loving design. Titles such as Fritz and the Animals , Der Herr des Urwaldes or the dog novel My name is Ratz were Schmook's works popular with young people in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

Records

In 1932 the "last forest master of the Grunewald" also discussed two shellac records from the Telefunken company . Animal sounds in the winter night , animal voices in the forest and the art of fox stimulation (order numbers A 1124 to A 1125) were the topics of the publication.

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personal data
SURNAME Schmook, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1888
DATE OF DEATH 1969