Alfred Kaden

Alfred Kaden (born April 11, 1925 in Kühnhaide ; † July 22, 2015 in Marienberg ) was a German forester and author as well as nature and homeland protector in the Saxon Ore Mountains .

Life

After attending school in Kühnhaide, the son of a haulier completed a forestry apprenticeship at the Pöhla Forestry Office and was drafted into military service in 1944. As a member of the Air Force, he was captured in Norway. After his return he continued his forest training in Schwarzburg . He completed his studies in the forest science section of the TU Dresden in 1962 as a qualified forest engineer and then worked for a few years as a district forester in Plauen and Flöha .

In 1965 he became head of the Marienberg State Forestry Company, which brought him back to his native home, with which he remained very closely connected throughout his life. Most recently he headed the Marienberg forestry department and retired as a forester.

In addition to his professional activity in the forest enterprise in the GDR, which was most damaged by industrial emissions, he was active as a nature and homeland conservationist. In 1979 he was appointed to the editorial board of the newly founded Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter , after having written articles for the Marienberg magazine of the GDR's cultural association , “ Our Homeland ”, and was a member of the editorial team since the 1960s . He has enriched regional magazines for over five decades with specialist articles on forest and natural history topics as well as on hunting and its environment. He also worked on volumes 41 and 43 of the series values of the German homeland and wrote for the Saxon homeland sheets .

He last lived in a former forest caretaker's house in the Marienberg district of Kühnhaide, where he died in 2015 at the age of 90.

Works (selection)

History of charcoal burning , in: Our home. Marienberg 1966, no. 8, pp. 6-9
Mining and forest , in: Erzgebirge 1983 - A yearbook for socialist local history and local history, 1982.
Leaflet on the production of Marienberg plant packages , Marienberg 1988.
Smoke damage in the Erzgebirge , in: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 2001, pp. 2–15 and 77–92.

literature

Wolfgang Panzert: A life for the forest. Forester retired Alfred Kaden 80 years , in: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter , 27 (2005), Heft 2, pp. 25–26. ISSN 0232-6078

Web links

Literature by and about Alfred Kaden in the Saxon Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ Obituaries in the Free Press .
^ Obituary, in: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter, 37 (2015), Heft 5, p. 31.

personal data
SURNAME	Kaden, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German forest master and author as well as nature and homeland protector in the Saxon Ore Mountains
DATE OF BIRTH	April 11, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kühnhaide
DATE OF DEATH	July 22, 2015
Place of death	Marienberg

[1] Obituaries in the Free Press .

[2] Obituary, in: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter, 37 (2015), Heft 5, p. 31.