Eduard Kirwald

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Eduard Kirwald (born August 10, 1899 in Wsetin as Eduard Krča ; † June 2, 1988 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German forest scientist , landscape ecologist, and engineering biologist .

Life

Kirwald was born in Moravia as the son of a private forest master . In 1917 he passed the Abitur at the grammar school in Reichenberg . He studied at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna , where he obtained the forestry diploma in 1922. In 1925 he passed the state examination for the higher technical forest service in Prague and received his doctorate in 1930 at the University of Prague . From 1923 to 1924 he was in the service of the ruling Prince of Liechtenstein and then area construction manager for forest engineering torrent control in Moravia. From 1937 he headed the German Higher Forestry School in Reichstadt (now Zákupy ) as professor and director , where he mainly taught forest management and water management technology as well as torrent control.

In 1938, after the Sudetenland was incorporated into the German Reich, Kirwald became a member of the NSDAP. In October 1939 he changed his surname from Krča to Kirwald. In 1939 he received a teaching position at the forestry faculty of the Technical University of Dresden in Tharandt . From 1941 to 1945 Kirwald was full professor for forestry and water management at the TH Dresden. From 1941 to 1945 he was also Lecturer Association Leader at the TH Dresden. In 1940 Kirwald was drafted into the army, several UK applications were rejected.

After being a prisoner of war, from which he returned with severe physical damage, from 1946 to 1949 he initially worked as a farm worker, in the arts and crafts and as a consulting engineer. In 1949 he received an assignment as an expert for forest engineering and torrent control of the Lower Saxony forest administration, where he was significantly involved in the restoration of the torrents in the Harz Mountains , which had suffered severe damage from floods caused by clearing and unregulated timber transport. In addition, from 1949 he worked as a consultant for the Ruhrtalsperrenverein for the arrangement, implementation and interpretation of discharge measurements in the Ruhr catchment area . In 1953 Kirwald was appointed head of the department for water management technology and forest engineering at the forestry experimental and research institute in Baden-Württemberg. From 1957 to 1966 he was also a lecturer at the forestry faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Work areas

Based on his experience in the field of torrent control, Kirwald coined the term biotechnology for the performance of plants from inherited assets as early as the late 1920s, their innate resilience e.g. B. against the attacks of the water. He published the results of his research, among other things, in his 1944 book on the basics of forest water management and in the specialist book Forest water management and forest protection against water damage (1950).

Memberships and honors

literature

  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 90.
  • Wolfram Pflug (1982): Laudation for the award of the honorary doctorate in engineering to Professor Dr.-Ing. Eduard Kirwald. In: 1980 yearbook of the Society for Engineering Biology e. V. 119-132. Karl Krämer Verlag Stuttgart.
  • Helmut Volk (1988): Eduard Kirwald in memory. In: Freiburg University Gazettes (27: 10-11). Rombach Verlag Freiburg.
  • Michael Parak (2004): University and Science in Two German Dictatorships: Elite Exchange at Saxon Universities 1933-1952. Böhlau Verlag Vienna, Cologne, Weimar.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 90.
  2. ↑ http://www.sudetendeutsche-akademie.eu/Kirwald.htm
personal data
SURNAME Kirwald, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krča, Eduard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist, landscape ecologist, and engineering biologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Wsetin
DATE OF DEATH June 2nd, 1988
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau