Bruno Hespeler

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Bruno Hespeler (* 1943 in Baden ) is a German professional hunter , freelance journalist and internationally known non-fiction author on hunting topics.

Life

Bruno Hespeler was for many years a professional hunter in the Bavarian State Forestry Administration and Forestry district manager in the private forest, before he retired from the civil service. Since the 1980s he has worked as an author of specialist books on hunting, a freelance journalist as well as a consultant and expert. Originally from Baden, Hespeler first lived in the Allgäu before he later settled in Carinthia .

Works

He became known to a wide audience through his numerous publications in the specialist, daily and general press in eight European countries as well as through his non-fiction books, which he has written since the early 1980s. Hespeler attaches great importance to imparting hunting knowledge in a practical way. He has therefore dealt intensively with all aspects of Hege . Well-known books by him that deal with general questions of hunting practice are, among others, the handbook of hunting grounds. Creating and maintaining habitats (1992), wildlife damage today. Prevention, detection, defense (1999), Hege and Jagd in the course of the year (2000) and hunting successfully. Game behavior, weather, hunting operations, equipment (2008).

One of Hespeler's most important tasks as a professional hunter is to look for game that has been shot at. Useful hunting dogs are essential. Hespeler was never restricted to a single breed, he led bloodhounds , bracken , quail dogs and hunting terriers . His knowledge and experience from four decades flowed into his book Before and After the Shot. Caliber, agreement, firing marks, hunting for hoofed game (2002).

In addition, he has implemented the findings of modern game biology in several books on individual game species for hunting practice. Roe deer are particularly successful today. Lebensraum, Jagd und Hege , which appeared for the first time in 1988 and has since been reprinted several times. Related books he published on the wild (2004), wild rabbits and wild pigeons (1998), Wild Water (2003) and the predators (1995 and 2004). He published most of his books in the BLV Verlag . Some have also been translated into Czech and Hungarian .

Against this background, up-to-date training for the hunters is important to him. In preparation for the hunter examination , he therefore wrote the book Hunting Knowledge at a Glance. Facts and figures for practice and examination (2000) and since the 56th edition (2007) has been the overall editor of the classic textbook Before and after the hunter examination founded by Herbert Krebs .

Hespeler took the excitement about the brown bear "Bruno" as an opportunity to visit Bruno 's homecoming. Bear, wolf and lynx are coming back. Fears, Risks and Hopes (2006) deal with the return of the three large predators, the brown bear , the wolf and the European lynx .

Due to his specialist knowledge and his rhetorical talent, he is a sought-after speaker for lectures, seminars and excursions in Germany, Austria , Italy , Liechtenstein , Luxembourg , Switzerland and the Netherlands .

Controversy about hunting customs

In numerous articles and in his books Jäger woin? A critical look at the German Waidwerk (1990) and hunting sustainably. Contemporary game management (2003), Hespeler dealt with hunting customs and the general situation of hunting in an increasingly critical social environment. He particularly criticizes the hunting customs unified by Walter Frevert and Ulrich Scherping in the 1930s, which he rates as artificial and imposed.

Andreas Gautschi , however, comes in his biography Frevert different conclusions by pointing out the shattered by the German petty customs and partially vital for communication Jagdsignale had by the emerging since the 1920s, mobility of a Standardization been necessary.

Gautschi shows that Frevert made use of existing (local) customs wherever possible. In the hunting signals criticized by Hespeler, in contrast to Hespeler's presentation that Frevert had often only composed uniform hunting signals on the orders of Hermann Göring to bring the hunters into line , he actually only continued long-standing attempts to write down the hunting signals in correspondence with his predecessors.

Quote

“We [hunters] are not masters of creation and we don't have the big say. We are - like the rest of the population - users of nature, and as long as this use makes sense for nature itself, it cannot be denied by serious spirits. "

- Bruno Hespeler

Fonts

  • Die Baujagd , Mainz 1985 ( ISBN 3-87341-052-4 )
  • Die Bergjagd , Mainz 1987 ( ISBN 3-87341-059-1 )
  • Roe deer today. Habitat, Hunting and Hunting , Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1988 (7th, revised edition as a new edition under the title Roe Deer Today. New Paths for Hunting and Hunting , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-405-16510-5 )
  • Hunter where? A critical examination of the German Waidwerk , Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1990 ( ISBN 3-405-13876-0 )
  • Territory design manual. Creating and maintaining habitats , Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1992 (2nd, revised and expanded edition Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-405-15194-5 )
  • Predatory game today. Biology, way of life, hunting , Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1995 (2nd edition Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-405-14607-0 )
  • Hunting facilities for the practitioner , Jagdpraxis aktuell (Volume 1), Vaduz 1995 ( ISBN 3-906565-10-6 )
  • Whipping boy Wald , Vaduz 1996 ( ISBN 3-925456-44-9 )
  • Wild rabbits and wild pigeons. Die kleine Niederjagd , Jagdpraxis aktuell (Volume 4), Vaduz 1998 ( ISBN 3-906565-38-6 )
  • Game damage today. Prevention, detection, defense , Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1999 ( ISBN 3-405-15423-5 )
  • Hunting knowledge at a glance. Data and facts for practice and examination , Munich, Vienna and Zurich 2000 (2nd edition, Munich, Vienna and Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-405-15774-9 )
  • Hege and hunt throughout the year , Munich, Vienna and Zurich 2000 (3rd edition, new edition, blv, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8354-0665-0 )
  • together with Bernd Krewer : Young or old? Correctly addressing hoofed game , Munich, Vienna and Zurich 2001 (4th edition, new edition, blv, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8354-0582-0 )
  • Before and after the shot. Caliber, agreement, shot marks, hunting for hoofed game , Munich, Vienna and Zurich 2002 (3rd edition, new edition, blv, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8354-0596-7 )
  • Water game. Way of life, hedge, addressing, hunting , Munich, Vienna and Zurich 2003 ( ISBN 3-405-16329-3 )
  • Hunt sustainably. Contemporary game management , Munich, Vienna and Zurich 2003 ( ISBN 3-405-16330-7 )
  • Wild boar today. Lifestyle, damage limitation, addressing, types of hunting, game utilization , Munich, Vienna and Zurich 2004 ( ISBN 3-405-16649-7 )
  • Hunt cloven-hoofed game. Efficient, species-appropriate, low-interference , Aid-Heft No. 1498, Bonn 2004 ( ISBN 3-8308-0461-X )
  • Successful hunting of foxes and martens , Munich, Vienna and Zurich 2004 ( ISBN 3-405-16650-0 )
  • Bruno's homecoming. Bear, wolf and lynx are coming back. Fears, Risks and Hopes , Bozen 2006 ( ISBN 978-88-7283-281-3 or ISBN 88-7283-281-0 )
  • Hunt successfully. Game behavior, weather, hunting, equipment , Munich 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-8354-0340-6 )

In addition, since the 56th edition (2007), Hespeler has also been the editor of the textbook Before and After the Hunters' Examination , founded by Herbert Krebs , and has worked on the book Die Gemse - Biologie und Jagd (Bern 2009).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bruno Hespeler: About me. In: bhespeler.at. Archived from the original on December 4, 2018 ; accessed on December 4, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Bruno Hespeler: Wild boar today - way of life · Hunting · Exploitation · Game damage . BLV Buchverlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-8354-1802-8 , p. 134 .
  3. ↑ a b Full house at "Jagen und Land Rover" with author Bruno Hespeler. In: Osthessen | News. November 30, 2018, archived from the original on December 4, 2018 ; accessed on December 4, 2018 .
  4. ↑ the 7th edition is a new edition under the title Roe Deer Today. New ways of keeping and hunting appeared
  5. ↑ When Customs was still useful in Deutsche Jagdzeitung , issue 11/2007 ( Memento from June 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) and other articles
  6. ^ To Gautschi's presentation: Andreas Gautschi : Walter Frevert. A Weidmann's change and ways . 2nd, supplemented edition. Edition Nimrod by Jana, Melsungen 2005, 176 pp., ISBN 3-7888-0981-7
  7. ↑ Bruno Hespeler: Welcome to Bruno Hespeler's website! In: hespeler.at. Archived from the original on May 4, 2008 ; accessed on December 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hespeler, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German professional hunter and hunting author
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH to bathe