August Georg von Wickede

August Georg von Wickede (born October 17, 1807 in Schlagbrügge , † October 19, 1879 in Doberan ) was a Mecklenburg head forester .

Life

Historic avenues at the Ostseerennbahn

August Georg von Wickede was the son of the later chief forestry master Johann Friedrich von Wickede (1755–1839), who was the chief forest clerk in the Principality of Ratzeburg . August Georg received his forestry training first in Remplin and then attended the Forest Academy in Berlin , founded by Georg Ludwig Hartig under the direction of Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil , from which the Eberswalde Forest Academy emerged in 1830 . In 1827 he became a Mecklenburg-Schwerin Chamberlain and Hunting Squire and from 1833 worked in the Gelbensande forest district , where the (formerly) ducal hunting lodge Gelbensande is still surrounded by a 12,000 hectare forest area. In 1845 he became a forester in Toddin , in 1848 in Doberan, where he was promoted to chief forester . In Doberan he planted the avenue of lime trees to the Ostseerennbahn and Ostseebad Heiligendamm .

Since 1827 he was a member of the Corps Vandalia Rostock and the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology .

Honors

In Hütter Wohld at the eastern end of the cooling , which is traversed by the Hütter Klosterteiche nature reserve , a hill in the municipality of Bartenshagen-Parkentin was named after him with "von Wickedes Höhe" and marked with a boulder with an inscription. Today it is hidden in a forest area .

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literature

• Hans Ulrich von Wickede: The family von Wickede and their relations to the principality of Ratzeburg. In: Communications from the Heimatbund for the Principality of Ratzeburg. 17 (1935), No. 3, pp. 33-43 (p. 40)
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10796 .

Web links

Commons : August Georg von Wickede  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch : Laws, ordinances and orders, which are issued for the Principality of Ratzeburg. Schönberg: L. Bicker 1851 ( digitized version ), p. 201.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 119 , 82. In the Rostock matriculation portal he can not be proven as a matriculated student at the University of Rostock .