Bavarian State Forests

Bavarian State Forests (BaySF)
legal form	Institute of public right
founding	2005
Seat	Regensburg , Germany
management	Martin Neumeyer , CEO; Reinhardt Neft, member of the board of directors;
Number of employees	2,753
sales	371.9 million euros (2018 financial year)
Branch	forestry
Website	baysf.de
	As of December 15, 2018

The company Bayerische Staatsforsten (BaySF) with the legal form of an institution under public law (AöR) was founded on July 1, 2005. The Bavarian State Forests cultivate around 808,000 hectares for the Free State of Bavaria , 755,000 hectares of which are forest. The Bayerische Staatsforsten AöR is the largest forest enterprise in Germany .

history

The company is the result of the forest management reform decided by the Bavarian Council of Ministers in autumn 2003 . The core of the reform was the separation of the previous standardized forest administration into a forest administration responsible for sovereignty, advice and funding and a company based on private-sector principles with the task of managing the Bavarian state forest.

organization

The public institution of the Free State of Bavaria with legal capacity is subject to legal supervision by the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests . The company's organs are the two-person management board, the supervisory board with nine members and the advisory board with 22 members. The tasks and organization of the Bavarian State Forests are regulated in the State Forests Act (StFoG).

The headquarters of the company is in Regensburg . The state forest is managed by 40 forest companies in Bavaria and one forest company in Austria for the management of the Bavarian Saalforste based in Sankt Martin bei Lofer . In addition to the 41 forest operations, the Bavarian State Forests also include the base for forest technology in Bodenwöhr , the forest training centers in Nuremberg - Buchenbühl and the Laubau near Ruhpolding , the center for energy wood in Oberammergau and the plant garden operations with seed cycles in Bindlach and Laufen (Salzach) .

CEO

Rudolf Freidhager (2005-2015)
Martin Neumeyer (since April 1, 2015)

Business areas

Wood and hunting

Holzpolter of the Bavarian State Forests

The company's core task is the management of the Bavarian state forest . 5.42 million cubic meters of wood were felled in the 2015 financial year . The Bavarian State Forests thus make almost ten percent of the total felling in German forests . With 368.7 million euros (2015 financial year), timber sales make the lion's share of the total turnover of the Bavarian State Forests. Furthermore, the Bavarian State Forests manage state hunts in Bavaria according to the principle of forest before game . In the hunting year 2014/15 58,594 shares were directed hunting ungulates killed. Sales in the area of hunting and fishing amounted to 6.8 million euros in the 2015 financial year.

Renewable energy

As part of the energy transition and the second nuclear phase-out decided in 2011, certain forest locations of the Bavarian State Forests are made available to third-party operators for wind energy use by means of wind turbines . In 2015, 46 wind turbines with a total nominal output of 113 megawatts and five photovoltaic systems with a nominal output of 5.14 megawatts were operated in the Bavarian state forest. In addition, the Bavarian State Forests own 18 smaller photovoltaic systems and are involved in two biomass power plants. Sales in the Renewable Energy business area amounted to 2.5 million euros in the 2015 financial year.

Further business areas

Further business areas of the Bavarian State Forests are mining & landfill (e.g. sand and gravel mining), leisure and recreation, buildings, services and products, natural areas, traffic / trade / agriculture, operation of toll roads as well as supply and disposal. Sales in real estate and other businesses (including renewable energy) amounted to 21.9 million euros in the 2015 financial year.

literature

Carl Schmöller, Jacques Andreas Volland: Bavaria's forests. 250 years of the Bavarian State Forest Administration (= booklets on Bavarian history and culture. 27). House of Bavarian History, Augsburg 2002, ISBN 3-927233-80-3 .