Carl Alwin Schenck

Georg Otto Carl Alwin Schenck (born March 25, 1868 in Darmstadt , † May 16, 1955 in Lindenfels , Odenwald ) was a German forest scientist.

Career

Schenck was born as the son of the Justice Council Carl Jacob Schenck (1831-1902) and Olga Schenck (1840-1912). In 1886 he passed his matriculation examination at the Darmstadt Polytechnic and from 1889 studied cameralia and forestry in Tübingen and Gießen . In 1895 he received his doctorate “summa cum laude” on the profitability of the German oak peeling forest .

In 1895 he traveled to the United States to take over management of the estates of entrepreneur George W. Vanderbilt in Biltmore . In 1898 he founded the Biltmore Forest School as the first forest school in the country , which he developed into a respected forest science institute. After disagreements with Vanderbilt, he gave up his post as forest manager in 1909. In 1913 his school was also closed and he returned to Germany. Together with his friend Ferdinand Luthmer, he built a summer house in Lindenfels. T. was built from American woods.

From 1916 to 1918 he was a guest lecturer for silviculture in Gießen . From 1923 to 1937 he was visiting professor at the Forestry Faculty of the University of Montana in Missoula.

During the Second World War he lived in seclusion in Lindenfels in the Odenwald.

Carl Alwin Schenck died in Lindenfels at the age of 87. He was married to Adele Bopp (1874–1929) for the first time since 1896. In his second marriage, he was in a relationship with Marie Louise Faber (1869–1950) from 1932.

Honors

• 1933: Honorary citizen of the Royal Prussian Forest Academy in Hannoversch Münden .
• 1952: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1954: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Carl Alwin Schenck was honored with an oak tree named after him in the Darmstadt Forest (near the deer heads).

literature

• Biographies of important Hessian foresters. Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-7939-0780-5 .
• Karl-Reinhard Volz:  Schenck, Carl Alwin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 666 f. ( Digitized version ).