Carl Duve

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Carl Duve (born March 2, 1889 in Altona ; † May 12, 1984 in Hamburg ) was a German conservationist .

Life

Carl Duve was a trained shipbuilder who was in charge of the Blohm & Voss repair department for some time . Before the First World War , he joined the Naturschutzpark association , which had been dedicated to the preservation of the landscape since 1909 and had bought land on the Wilseder Berg for this purpose . Duve wrote small contributions for the magazine Der Naturfreund of the association Naturfreunde , with which he maintained good contacts. In 1924 he called the Heidewacht into being, which saw itself as the "Protection Association of North German Friends of Nature for the Protection of Local Animal and Plant Life". Together with other Heidewacht men , he undertook voluntary patrols and drives in the Lüneburg Heath , the Sachsenwald and other forest areas around Hamburg. The men tried to protect the environment from the negative effects of day trippers and to prevent fires.

At the beginning of 1934 Duve decided to integrate the Heidewacht into the Reichsbund Volkstum und Heimat . He signed the foreword to the festschrift for the 10th anniversary of the association with the words “Heil Deutschland! Hail Hitler!". Since he did not agree with the subsequent capture by the Nazi organization, he dissolved the Heidewacht in June 1934. Instead, he worked with helpers at times as a "forest protection officer" in the Hahnheide forest near Trittau . As he himself said, he played a part in the decision not to build a dynamite factory there. During the Second World War he worked full-time in the submarine production and the torpedo research institute in Kiel .

After the end of the Second World War, Duve took over the chairmanship of the Hamburg regional group of the Nature Conservation Park Association . In 1947 he was one of the founders of the Hamburg Nature Guard , which was linked to the Heidewacht . From 1946 Duve headed the newly founded nature conservation office in Hamburg full-time. He also worked as a state representative for nature conservation. During his ten-year service, the not undisputed Duve was able to enforce the tree protection ordinance of September 17, 1948, the landscape conservation ordinances in parts of the Fischbeker Heide , the nature reserve on Neßsand , the newly created Alster hiking trail and the Elbhöhen hiking trail near Blankenese . The Duvenstedter Brook nature reserve , in which he owned an official apartment, was of particular concern to him . Thanks to his use, the protected area was significantly enlarged and, from 1951, cranes were reintroduced .

After retiring at the end of 1956, he wrote small articles on Heimat and nature conservation, which appeared in magazines such as Unser Heimat - Die Walddörfer , Naturschutz- und Naturparke or Die Heimat . Until his death in 1984 the conservationist lived with his second wife Hanna on Duvenstedter Triftweg. His grave can be found in the forest cemetery in Wohldorf-Ohlstedt .

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SURNAME Duve, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1984
Place of death Hamburg