Christiane Volger

Christiane Volger (born August 6, 1917 in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) , † September 17, 2008 in Münster ) was a German forest scientist .

Life

Christiane Volger comes from a forest ranger family : She is the daughter of the Oldenburg forest master Hans Volger. That she decided to embark on a career in forestry was very unusual for a woman at the time. She studied forest science at the forestry faculties in Hann. Münden (incorporated into the Georg-August University of Göttingen from 1939 ) and the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg .

In 1943 Volger became a scientific assistant to Julius Oelkers at the Institute for Silviculture Technology in Hann. Münden. At the suggestion of his successor, Adolf Olberg , she wrote her dissertation on the teaching forest office Oedelsheim an der Weser administered by Olberg . The result was a comprehensive forest history study that made her a Dr. forest. received his doctorate .

In the following years, however, her main research areas developed from the border area between silviculture and forest protection , often with a phytopathological background. So she dealt with defense against seedling diseases in conifers and with the red rot of the spruce , not least through studies on the root sponge . She published her findings, among other things, in the treatise Methods of soil disinfection and their importance for the cultivation of forest plants (1962).

One of her specialties was dealing with rejuvenation-inhibiting ground vegetation, a tiresome topic in forestry practice. In 1969 she also presented her habilitation thesis: The bracken and its control with aminotriazole . However, these are not instructions for use in practice, but a detailed study of the biology of the fern, which is widespread worldwide, and above all a novel investigation of the translocation of the controversial herbicide using paper-chromatic and radiochromatic methods.

In 1973 Christiane Volger became an adjunct professor and in 1978 took over the teaching and research area of ​​forest protection as a scheduled C3 professor at the Institute for Silviculture , which she represented until her retirement in 1983.

For the forest science faculty she was also involved as chairwoman of the library committee and of the association "Wissenschaft und Literatur".

Christiane Volger lived in Göttingen for many years. Most recently she lived in a nursing home in Münster, where she died on September 17, 2008 at the age of 91. She found her final resting place in the cemetery in Münster-Angelmodde .

Fonts

• The Oedelsheim Forestry Office - a forest area in Lower Hesse - under the influence of human settlement and exploitation as well as cultivation over the centuries. Dissertation, Göttingen 1954.
• Methods of soil disinfection and their importance for the cultivation of forest plants. Series of publications by the Forest Faculty of the University of Göttingen and communications from the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Volume 26), Frankfurt am Main 1962.
• The bracken (Pteridium aquilinum L. Kuhn) and its control with aminotriazole . Habilitation thesis, series of publications by the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen and communications from the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Volume 41), Frankfurt am Main 1969.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christiane Volger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ernst Röhrig : In memory of Professor Dr. Christiane Volger . Obituary in: Allgemeine Forst- und Jagd-Zeitung , Volume 179, No. 10/11 2008, p. 207 ( PDF of the booklet ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ).