August Ganghofer

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August Ritter von Ganghofer. Etching by Carl Sterry , cover picture of an 1885 issue of the Journal of Forestry and Hunting.

August Ganghofer , since 1887 Knight von Ganghofer , (born April 23, 1827 in Dießen am Ammersee , † March 29, 1900 in Munich ) was an important German forest official and father of the writer Ludwig Ganghofer . He was married to the professor's daughter Charlotte Louis.

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August Ganghofer studied after high school in Ottobeuren the subject forestry in Aschaffenburg and Munich . In Munich he had been a member of the Isaria Corps since 1849 . He received his training as a forestry official in Saxony Rieder Forst . After the engagement in 1847 he married Charlotte Louis in Ottobeuren in 1854, the daughter of Professor Carl Louis , who was born in 1828, and who taught at the Aschaffenburg Forestry School . His first job was at the Kaufbeuren Forestry Office under the forestry master Franz Thoma, a grandfather of Ludwig Thoma . From 1859 to 1873 he was responsible for the forest district in Welden , where he had an avenue of lime trees (now called August-Ganghofer-Allee ) planted. In 1872 he published the standard work The practical wood calculator , whereby "wood" meant the forest. From 1873 to 1875 Ganghofer was district forest master in Würzburg , then he was promoted to forestry council and transferred to Munich.

In 1879 he was given the rank of ministerial councilor and was appointed head of Bavarian forestry. In this function he carried out the fundamental reorganization of Bavarian forestry by introducing the chief forester system. Furthermore, August Ganghofer has been promoting the transfer of knowledge between practice and teaching since the 1870s. At his instigation, the Royal Bavarian Research Institute , now the Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry (LWF) , was founded in Freising in 1881 . In 1887 Ganghofer was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown for his services and was thus elevated to a personal knighthood . When he retired in 1897, he was also given the title of Privy Councilor .

family

August Ganghofer's ancestors in the male line mostly worked in forestry professions. His younger brother Franz Ganghofer (1831–1908) was the municipal chief forestry officer in Augsburg. One son was the writer Ludwig Ganghofer , and one son-in-law was the geologist Albrecht Penck . The geomorphologist Walther Penck was his grandson. Coat of arms: In red, diagonally right, three golden six-pointed stars On the crowned helmet with red and gold covers between red buffalo horns 2 gold six-pointed stars standing on top of each other.

Publications

  • The practical wood calculator (1872 ff., 7 editions)
  • Forestry Experiments (1877/1884)
  • Explanations of the Forest Act for the Kingdom of Bavaria (1880 ff., 3 editions until 1898)

literature

  • Heinrich Rubner : August von Ganghofer. In: Heinrich Rubner: Hundred significant Bavarian foresters (1875 to 1970) (= communications from the Bavarian State Forestry Administration. Issue 47, ISSN  0405-0576 ). Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests, Munich 1994, pp. 28–31.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 109 , 335.
  2. ↑ Kaufbeurer delegation at the regional association conference of the German Evangelical Women's Association City tour in Aschaffenburg
  3. ↑ Communications from the Aschaffenburg city archive
  4. ↑ Ganghofer locations: 1 Kaufbeuren 1855-1859
personal data
SURNAME Ganghofer, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ganghofer, August Ritter von (full name); Ganghofer, August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest officer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Dießen am Ammersee
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1900
Place of death Munich