August Adolph von Berlepsch

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Gottlob Franz August Adolph Freiherr von Berlepsch (born November 27, 1790 in Seebach , † October 4, 1867 in Dresden ) was a German forester . As head forest master , he led the Saxon state forests to economic prosperity.

origin

His parents were Baron August Gottlieb von Berlepsch (1763-1831) and his wife Eleonore Charlotte Juliane von Winzigerode (1768-1810). His parents divorced in 1806.

Life

He was born on November 27, 1790 on the monastery estate in Seebach, where he also spent the first five years of his life. After three years with his grandmother in Mihla , he and his brother Ludwig received private training from the Seebach pastor until he was 13. From 1805 to 1808 he attended school in Mühlhausen, primarily to expand his knowledge of mathematics. During the battle of Jena and Auerstedt in 1806, his two older brothers Gottlieb and Ludwig were taken prisoner by the French, but were soon released when they gave their word of honor that they would never fight France again. Ludwig von Berlepsch took over his father's estate in Seebach, which was actually intended for his brother August. Instead, he came from 1808 to 1809 as a student at the private Heinrich Cottas forestry school in Zillbach .

When Cotta was appointed to Tharandt's forestry council in 1811 to take over the management of the measurement and establishment of the state forests there in Saxony, von Berlepsch followed him and was appointed to the Pretzsch forestry department in 1812 at Cotta's suggestion , in order to set it up according to Cotta's system. In the region he witnessed several battles first hand, including the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig . After standing on the battlefield on October 19, 1813, he reported to a Saxon Freikorps in Dresden that same year and advanced as a lieutenant to Mainz , which surrendered when the peace agreement in Paris was reached.

Back at home, he was transferred to the position of vice director of the forest surveying institute, which was relocated to Tharandt in 1811, became forester in 1819 and in 1820 adviser for forest and raft matters in the secret finance committee. When the king appointed him Finance Council in 1821, he informed him that he should “ pay special attention to the proper operation and progress of the surveying and appraisal business and to be aware of it and generally of the condition and management of our forests to convince on the spot to revise some forests every year ". It was Cotta who suggested these revisions as a form of operational control.

On May 13, 1821, August Adolph Freiherr von Berlepsch married the only 17-year-old Countess Adolfine Auguste von der Schulenburg-Lieberose (born May 1, 1803 in Tucheim ; † January 9, 1878 in Dresden), whom he had met on a game drive . The two had a happy marriage that was blessed with 13 children. His eldest son was the Saxon lawyer and church politician Dietrich Otto von Berlepsch , the youngest son Hans Hermann Freiherr von Berlepsch became Prussian Minister of State for Trade and Industry.

Von Berlepsch also had a lot of success professionally. In 1854 he became a royal Saxon forest master with the rank of a secret councilor until he retired in 1860. Under his leadership, the Saxon forestry flourished and the profitability of the state forests rose to a significant level - a lasting merit of the Berlepschs, who made a name for himself in the forest world. He also remained loyal to his former teacher Cotta. It was mainly due to Berlepsch's commitment that the Tharandt Forest Academy was expanded in 1830 to become the “Academy for Foresters and Farmers”. When its director Cotta died in 1844, von Berlepsch gave the funeral oration as his oldest student. In the spring of 1845 he also took over the management of the academy on a temporary basis, until Oberforstrat Carl Heinrich Edmund von Berg took this office in October 1845 . At the celebration of Cotta's 100th birthday in 1863, von Berlepsch also gave the keynote address.

In addition, over the years he came into quite considerable private possessions. When his brother Ludwig died in 1837, his inheritance was divided among the surviving brothers. Gottlieb von Berlepsch ceded his share in return for a pension to August Adolph, whereby the latter came into the ownership of the Seebach monastery. In 1857 he bought the Hambach manor, so that the family belonged to the Hessian knighthood again, and acquired further possessions. In 1863 he leased the Seebach monastery to his son Richard.

August Adolph von Berlepsch died on October 4, 1867 at the age of 77 in Dresden, where he is also buried. He was a member of the Isis Natural Research Society in Dresden .

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SURNAME Berlepsch, August Adolph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berlepsch, Gottlob Franz August Adolph Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Seebach
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1867
Place of death Dresden