Eilert Tantzen

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Ernst Eilert Eckart Tantzen (born October 22, 1929 in Marsow ; † August 16, 2012 ) was a German forester , genealogist , local researcher , conservationist and local politician in Lower Saxony ( FDP ).

In addition to his political commitment, he made a name for himself primarily with researching and processing the forest history of the state of Oldenburg in the German Empire .

Life

Professional career

Eilert Tantzen came from an old family of Frisian chiefs and farmers from the Jever , Stedinger and Butjadinger lands. He was the third child of Ernst Albrecht Tantzen (1902–1975) and his first wife Martha Mathilde, née Giese (1901–1958). His father was a farmer on the Friesenhof in Marsow from 1927 to 1935 and then a farmer and brickworks owner in Blexen . Eilert Tantzen was a grandson of the first and last liberal Prime Minister of the Free State / State of Oldenburg, Theodor Tantzen , and the great cousin of the philosopher Karl Jaspers . He spent his childhood and school days in Blexen, Nordenham and Niesky , where he attended the Zinzendorf pedagogy at Niesky of the Moravian Brethren during the Second World War . These years in the densely wooded Upper Lusatia established his love for the forest and made him want to become a forester. In April 1947, he joined the upper-level forest service in Lower Saxony and completed a six-year training course, which he completed with the award of the university degree of graduate engineer and the forest ranger examination.

Forestry officer Eilert Tantzen headed the Hatten district forester from 1966 to 1987 . There he shows in October 1984 prepared by him Book - natural regeneration .

Until his retirement in 1994, Tantzen worked for almost 42 years in various positions within the Lower Saxony forest administration, mainly in the Oldenburger Land , including two and a half years as an unskilled worker in forest management work, one year as head of the “Walter Freist” youth forest home in Zorge / southern Harz, and seven years as an employee in forest management in Lower Saxony, three years as office manager and 25 years as district manager. From 1966 to 1987 he was in charge of the Hatten district forester . Most recently, Tantzen worked as a senior forestry councilor for three years as the department head for forest framework planning at the Lower Saxony forest planning office in Wolfenbüttel .

He was a founding member in 1948 of the Federal German foresters (now Association of German foresters BDF) and from 1966 to 1976 Chairman of the District Association Weser-Ems and deputy chairman of the district staff council of Forestry Administration Oldenburg.

Forest history and genealogical research

His interest in forest history was aroused when Eilert Tantzen was involved in the development of several forest office chronicles in the Oldenburg area. From his own research, the treatise Life Pictures of the senior forest officials in Oldenburg and the outline of the development of the Oldenburg forestry from 1600 to 1960 emerged in 1962 , which appeared as volume 5 in the series Aus dem Walde of the Lower Saxony state forest administration. The Oldenburg Försterchronik 1650–1950 , published in 2000 as volume 53 of the series “Aus dem Walde”, also includes the former Oldenburg parts of Lübeck (1773–1937) and Birkenfeld (1817–1937). With these two representations, which also received a lot of scientific recognition, Tantzen closed essential gaps in the processing of the forest history of Lower Saxony. His findings flowed, for example, into Walter Kremser's comprehensive account of Lower Saxony forest history. An Integrated Cultural History of Northwest German Forestry (1990).

As early as the 1960s, he also began an overall presentation of the afforestation of the heaths and wastelands by the Oldenburg state forest administration in the 19th century. “However, this work was brought to a standstill by the devastating hurricane of November 13, 1972 , which within a few hours in the Oldenburger Land razed almost all the still growing softwood stocks from this epoch to the ground. This hit the author in such a way that he stopped working on it, with the exception of further sources, ”he wrote in 2000. In 2004, however, Tantzen took up the thread again and, at the end of 2008, published a more extensive work under the title The reforestation of heaths and wastelands by the Oldenburg State Forestry Administration in the 19th century. A contribution to the forest and forest history of Lower Saxony . The book was published as the 57th volume in the Aus dem Walde series and is dedicated to Hans-Jürgen Otto . As Tantzen said at the official presentation, it should be his “last big work”, but he still has a few smaller issues up his sleeve.

Over the years, Tantzen has also published numerous articles on the history of the homeland, forest, forest and nature conservation in the Oldenburg area, as well as on the Tantzen family history, in various publications . The highlight of these genealogical investigations by Tantzen, who was chairman of the “Familienverband Hergen Tantzen eV” founded in 1921 and custodian of the Tantzen family archive from 1995 until his death in 2012, was the extensive presentation of 700 years of Tantzen family chronicles. 1300-2000 (1997).

Voluntary and political engagement

Eilert Tantzen also did a lot of voluntary work. From 1969 to 1993 he worked as an honorary judge at the Administrative Court of Oldenburg and from 1970 to 1979 a member of the church council of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Hatten. The Freiburg theses of the liberal pioneer and later Interior Minister Werner Maihofer prompted him to become a member of the FDP in 1972 . Since then he has also been active in local and environmental politics. For many years he was chairman of the local association Hatten, which he founded in 1972, and from 1976 to 1996 also of the Oldenburg district association of the FDP, both of which have meanwhile offered him honorary chairmanship. Tantzen has had a strong impact on the FDP local association in Hatten, not least with the issues of nature and environmental protection. In the 40th year of its existence, 2012, it was one of the largest local liberal associations in Germany with around 100 members.

Hans-Dietrich Genscher (2nd from left) and his wife Barbara (right) congratulate Eilert Tantzen - here with his wife Jutta (left) - on October 22, 1989 in front of the "Villa Hügel" in Sage on his 60th birthday.

Tantzen was a member of the district board of Oldenburg-Land until 1994 and also of the state board of the Lower Saxony Liberals until 1996, temporarily as their deputy state chairman. For more than two decades he was state and federal party congress delegate of the FDP, briefly he was also a delegate of the Congress of European Liberals (ELDR) . He had a long friendship with Hans-Dietrich Genscher . In his address for Eilert Tantzen's 60th birthday on October 22, 1989, Genscher described him as the “environmental conscience of the FDP”.

In the 1970s and 80s, Tantzen was therefore considered to be ministerial for his party at both state and federal level, but despite many offers he preferred to serve the local politics in the Oldenburger Land. He later justified this as follows:

“I have my roots in the Oldenburger Land. I didn't want to sit under a cheese dome in Bonn or Berlin. So much of the people are lost in big politics. "

Eilert Tantzen was a member of the council of the municipality of Hatten from 1972 to 1982 and was an alderman and from 1976 to 1982 mayor of this municipality. In the district council of the district of Oldenburg , to which he belonged from 1972 to 1996, he was active for more than two decades as chairman of the FDP district parliamentary group and of the district environmental committee he initiated in 1974, to which he belonged in an advisory capacity from 1996 to 2006. One of his further political successes is the organization of the political majority in the district council for the relocation of the district seat to Wildeshausen . Eilert Tantzen was also active in the state environmental committee of the Lower Saxony FDP for more than 30 years. His party friend Walter Hirche once called him a “liberal veteran”. The FDP federal chairman, Guido Westerwelle, wrote to him on his 80th birthday: "You have made a significant contribution to shaping the FDP in the Oldenburger Land for many years and are still an extremely loyal companion to our work."

From 1984 to 1996 Eilert Tantzen was a member of the Association Committee of the State Electricity Association (LEV) and from 1988 to 1996 a member of the EWE Supervisory Board . From 1977 to 1996 he was also a member of the association assembly of the Oldenburg-Ostfriesischer Wasserverband (OOWV) and was a member of its board from 1989 to 2006, at times as deputy head of the association. In this function, with his forestry knowledge of the importance of the forest for the water balance, he was able to play a decisive role in ensuring that the drinking water resources in the Geest areas of the Oldenburg area were permanently protected. This was done by securing around 2500 hectares of private, mostly intensively used agricultural arable land in the water protection areas by the OOWV by 2007 and passing this on free of charge to the Lower Saxony State Forest Administration / State Forests with the obligation to stock them with near-natural, groundwater-friendly forests.

The revitalization and renaturation of the Brookbäke in Hasbruch can be traced back to Eilert Tantzen's efforts.

A nature conservation foundation, which the district of Oldenburg set up in 1991 at the instigation of Tantzen and whose board of trustees was the Forstmann from 1991 to 2006, also serves to protect the forest. Above all, the nature conservation foundation Landkreis Oldenburg wants to promote the private forest , whereby importance is attached to the fact that forest edges are designed as natural as possible, old hardwood stands are preserved and built-up lowland brooks (Almswegwasserzug, Brookbäke / Hasbruch ) are renatured. The revitalization of the Kimmer Brookbäke can be seen as Tantzen's conservationist lifework. Until recently he interfered in environmental debates. At the beginning of 2012, he took a stand against the planned ninth deepening of the Elbe .

As a conservationist, he also supervised and mapped the gray heron colony in the “Hatter Holz” nature reserve , whose history he summarized in 1999 under the title 100 Years of the Hatten Gray Heron Colony . To mark the 100th anniversary of the State Pond Management Ahlhorn in 2006, he wrote a report printed in the 2006 yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland under the title Pond Management Ahlhorn, a man-made natural paradise . As a hunter , he belonged to the German Hunting Protection Association (DJV) for more than 63 years and was a member of the Grossenkneten Hegering .

Eilert Tantzen was also a co-founder of the Oldenburg landscape in 1974 , was a member of its board from 1992 to 1997 and then a member of the advisory board. Since 1963 he was a member of the Oldenburg State Association for History, Nature and Local History and the Oldenburg Society for Family Studies. Since 1999, Eilert Tantzen has been a member of the board of the Northwest Hunte Regio regional association, which was founded in the same year and focuses on the Hunte and its catchment area.

In 2004, Tantzen mobilized against the closure of the Hasbruch Forestry Office near Hude, which was planned by the Lower Saxony state government under the then Prime Minister Christian Wulff ( CDU ) . The state government's reform plans - a total of 19 forest offices in Lower Saxony should be dissolved - would ultimately be at the expense of the “welfare effects of the forest on the population, which cannot be assessed highly enough in terms of the common good”, he feared. The former Forstoberamtsrat criticized: "The profit from the sale of wood is more important to those responsible than the relationship between people and the forest." Already because of the importance of the forest areas in this region and especially the Hasbruch, the "most traditional forest office in Hasbruch" must be preserved. In the end, however, his commitment was unsuccessful: the forestry office was dissolved, and the oldest Oldenburg forest service building, which is listed as a historical monument, was sold to the public with the highest bid in 2006.

The efforts of regional politicians to preserve old berms , in which Tantzen had also participated, was crowned with success . Lower Saxony's Minister of Economic Affairs and Transport, Walter Hirche, assured the honorary chairman of the district FDP in a conversation in July 2008 that the state of Lower Saxony would stop the sale of the tree-covered mountain berms on all former Oldenburg state roads. The side areas of the former Staatschaussee are considered to be a defining element of the Oldenburg cultural landscape and of cultural and historical significance.

Tantzen had borrowed the credo for all his political activities from the sustainability principle peculiar to his forestry profession : "Don't just think overnight, but tackle problems in the long term."

For his decades of nature conservation, social and political commitment, Eilert Tantzen received numerous awards - including the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 1987 and the Lower Saxony State Cross of Merit 1st Class in 1993 . Tantzen has earned services in a “kaleidoscopic range” for the state of Lower Saxony and the Oldenburg region, as Forest Minister Karl-Heinz Funke emphasized when presenting the latter award.

At the celebration of Eilert Tantzen's 80th birthday in 2009, Funke also said, alluding to the FDP politician's well-known persistence in matters of importance to him, if one could assign the term sustainability to someone , then that was Tantzen: “If he does something If you want, then you can't escape it, then it will last. ”On the occasion of Tantzen's 80th birthday, there were also other awards. The Oldenburg landscape honored him for his services to the Oldenburger Land with its highest award, the landscape medal. Thomas Hellmold stated on the same occasion about Eilert Tantzen's character and life's work in the Nordwest-Zeitung : "Political life in the Oldenburger Land after the war never generated someone like him again."

Private life

Eilert Tantzen was first married to Anne-Dore Pilz from 1957 to 1984 and was the father of two children. After the divorce he married the teacher Jutta Angelika Huneke in 1984. He lived in the farming village of Sage in the municipality of Großenkneten , where he and his wife Jutta lived in the "Villa Hügel" embedded in the landscape of Sager Switzerland.

Since July 1995 he was paralyzed on one side due to a tumor disease and used a wheelchair. Forstoberamtsrat a. D. Eilert Tantzen died on August 16, 2012 at the age of 82.

Honors

  • 1966 - Honorary membership of the Historical Society in Oldenburg
  • 1977 - Honorary member of the Boßelverein Sandhatten
  • 1982 - Golden badge of honor of the Reichsbund
  • 1984 - coat of arms plate of the district of Oldenburg
  • 1986 - Theodor Heuss Medal of the FDP
  • 1987 - Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 1988 and 2009 - coat of arms plate of the municipality of Hatten
  • 1993 - Golden badge of honor of the FDP
  • 1993 - Lower Saxony Order of Merit (Cross of Merit 1st Class)
  • 1997 - Certificate of Honor from the FDP
  • 1998 - Environment Prize from the Lower Saxony Nature Foundation
  • 2003 - Honorary award from the Lower Saxony Environmental Foundation for more than three decades of commitment to environmental protection and for his life's work
  • 2005 - Honorary membership of the Lower Saxony State Hunters Association (LJN) eV
  • 2006 - Honoring as part of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Seniors and Disabled Advisory Council of the municipality of Hatten, which was founded on his initiative in 1981
  • 2006 - Honored by the district of Oldenburg for the initiative implemented by the district council in 1991 to establish a nature conservation foundation, of which he was chairman of the board of trustees for over 15 years
  • 2009 - Badge of honor for 60 years of membership of the Association of German Foresters (BDF)
  • 2009 - Landscape Medal of the Oldenburg Landscape for his services to the Oldenburger Land
  • 2012 - Medal of Honor from the Lower Saxony FDP regional association

Eilert Tantzen was also honorary chairman of the FDP local association Hatten and the FDP district association Oldenburg as well as an honorary member of the Hegering Grossenkneten.

Fonts

  • Life pictures of the senior forest officials in Oldenburg and an outline of the development of the Oldenburg forestry from 1600 to 1960 . From the forest (volume 5), Hanover 1962.
  • Tribe list of the Tantzen family. 1300–1971 , issue 5 of the articles on the history of the Tantzen family . In: Oldenburg family history , year 14, issue 1/2, Oldenburg 1972.
  • Extraction of beech seeds . In: Aus dem Walde (Volume 41), Hanover 1987.
  • 700 years of chronicle of the Tantzen family. 1300-2000 . Isensee, Oldenburg 1997, ISBN 3-89598-425-6 .
  • Oldenburg Forestry Chronicle 1650–1950. Including the former Oldenburg region of Lübeck (1773–1937) and Birkenfeld (1817–1937) . From the forest (Volume 53). Isensee, Oldenburg 2000, ISBN 3-89598-753-0 .
  • Hatten 100 years of gray heron colony . In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 1999 (Volume 99) . Published by the Oldenburger Landesverein für Geschichte, Natur und Heimatkunde eV, Oldenburg 1999, pp. 287–306.
  • Farewell to the historic Hasbruch Forestry Office . In: Contributions of the Oldenburg landscape to cultural history (Volume 1) , Oldenburg 2006, pp. 8–21.
  • 100 years of "Ahlhorn fish ponds" . In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 2006 , published by the Heimatbund for the Oldenburger Münsterland. Cloppenburg 2006, pp. 267-285.
  • The reforestation of heaths and wastelands by the Oldenburg State Forestry Administration in the 19th century. A contribution to the history of forest and forest in Lower Saxony , Aus dem Walde (Volume 57), Oldenburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89995-582-8 .
  • together with Rudolf Giese: The history of the Giese family , Burghasungen and Oldenburg 2008
  • The historic forest / forest berms on the former state highways in the Oldenburger Land . In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 2009 (Volume 109), published by the Oldenburger Landesverein für Geschichte, Natur- und Heimatkunde eV, Oldenburg 2009, pp. 313–329.
  • Genealogical news about the East Frisian Fischer family . In: Sources and research on Ostfriesischen Familien- und Wappenkunde , 58th volume, Issue 4/2009, pp. 45–84 (long version under the title Die Geschichte der Ostfriesischen Familie Fischer . Self-published, Sage 2009).
  • The Schwei-Seefeld-Blexer branch / The Langwardener-Waddenser branch etc. Issue 6 of the series of articles on the history of the Tantzen family . Using older publications by Richard Tantzen from 1955. Self-published by the Hergen Tantzen family association, Sage 2009.
  • Tribe list of the Tantzen family 1300–2010 . Issue 7 of the series of articles on the history of the Tantzen family . (With the collaboration of Almut and Wilhelm Große-Nobis.) Self-published by the Hergen Tantzen family association, s. l. 2011.

estate

The estate of Eilert Tantzen is located in the Lower Saxony State Archives , Oldenburg, and can be viewed there under the conditions of the Lower Saxony Archives Act.

literature

  • XVIII / 44 Ernst Eilert Eckart Tantzen . In: Eilert Tantzen (Verf./Hrsg.): 700 years of chronicle of the Tantzen family. 1300–2000 , Oldenburg 1997, ISBN 3-89598-425-6 , p. 430 (as well as p. 327 ff)
  • Author portrait Eilert Tantzen. In: Eilert Tantzen: Oldenburgische Försterchronik 1650–1950. From the forest (volume 53), Oldenburg 2000, p. 418
  • Thomas Hellmold: A life for local politics - FDP honorary chairman Eilert Tantzen 80 years . In: Nordwest-Zeitung (NWZ) of October 21, 2009 ( online version )
  • Jochen Brünner: "I didn't want to sit under a cheese dome in Bonn or Berlin". FDP honorary chairman Eilert Tantzen celebrates his 80th birthday this Thursday . In: Delmenhorster Kreisblatt from October 22, 2009
  • Ulrich Suttka: Nature and home were close to his heart. Eilert Tantzen died at the age of 82 - Hatter Mayor from 1976 to 1982 . Obituary in the Nordwest-Zeitung ( online version from August 17, 2012 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Obituaries and obituaries in the funeral portal of the Nordwest-Zeitung ; Retrieved August 19, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g author portrait Eilert Tantzen. In: Eilert Tantzen: Oldenburgische Försterchronik 1650-1950 . From the forest (volume 53), Oldenburg 2000, p. 418
  3. ↑ Eilert Tantzen (Verf./Hrsg.): 700 years of chronicle of the Tantzen family. 1300 - 2000 , Oldenburg 1997, ISBN 3-89598-425-6 , p. 403
  4. ↑ a b c d Jochen Brünner: "I didn't want to sit under a cheese dome in Bonn or Berlin". FDP honorary chairman Eilert Tantzen celebrates his 80th birthday this Thursday . In: Delmenhorster Kreisblatt from October 22, 2009
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g XVIII / 44 Ernst Eilert Eckart Tantzen . In: Eilert Tantzen (Verf./Hrsg.): 700 years of chronicle of the Tantzen family. 1300-2000 , Oldenburg 1997, ISBN 3-89598-425-6 , p. 430
  6. ↑ See Walter Kremser: Niedersächsische Forstgeschichte. An integrated cultural history of north-west German forestry . Rotenburg writings (special volume 32). Rotenburg (Wümme) 1990 or Zoltán Rozsnyay, Frank Kropp: Niedersächsische Forstliche Biographie. A source volume . From the forest (1998): Messages from the Lower Saxony State Forest Administration (Issue 51). Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests (MELF), Wolfenbüttel 1998
  7. ^ Foreword to his book Oldenburgische Försterchronik 1650–1950 , Oldenburg 2000, p. 4
  8. ↑ Ulrike Gerards: Great litter of the forest specialist. Eilert Tantzen writes about forestry in the Oldenburger Land . In: Nordwest-Zeitung of December 22, 2008 ( online version ); Retrieved January 1, 2009
  9. ↑ Jan Schmidt: A strong character for the local people. 40 years of the FDP local association Hatten - Special honor for founder Eilert Tantzen . In: Kreiszeitung ; Online version of February 3, 2012; Retrieved March 11, 2012
  10. ↑ Quoted from Eilert Tantzen: 700 years chronicle of the Tantzen family. 1300-2000 . Published by the Hergen Tantzen family association. Isensee, Oldenburg 1997, ISBN 3-89598-425-6 , p. 327
  11. ↑ a b -usu-: Nature and home were close to his heart. Eilert Tantzen died at the age of 82 - Hatter Mayor from 1976 to 1982 . Obituary in the Nordwest-Zeitung ( online version of August 17, 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nwzonline.de  
  12. ↑ -ld-: Great fighter for nature. Farewell to Eilert Tantzen as chairman of the board of trustees , in: Nordwest-Zeitung , issue of the district of Oldenburg, on December 9, 2006
  13. ↑ -ck-: project as a model for all citizens. Environment Minister Sander praises the transformation of the Brookbäke by the foundation, many students and associations . In: Kreiszeitung from August 14, 2009 ( online version )
  14. ↑ -ld-: Eilert Tantzen reprimands the deepening of the Elbe . In: Nordwest-Zeitung , online version from April 18, 2012 ; accessed on November 18, 2017
  15. ↑ Quoted from " Nordwest-Zeitung " (NWZ) of March 12, 2004
  16. ↑ Quoted from NN: Lower Saxony Cross of Merit for Eilert Tantzen , in: Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift (AFZ) . 49th year, issue 2/1994, p. 105, ISSN  0936-1294
  17. ↑ Thomas Hellmold: A life for local politics - FDP honorary chairman Eilert Tantzen 80 years . In: Nordwest-Zeitung (NWZ) of October 21, 2009 ( online version )
  18. ↑ Hans Achim Gussone : Federal Cross of Merit for Eilert Tantzen . In: Der Forst- und Holzwirt , 42nd year, issue 18/1987, p. 507 ISSN  0015-7961
  19. ↑ Dieter Bartels: Many warm words and new honors. Eilert Tantzen with landscape medal for his 80th birthday . In: Wildeshauser Zeitung from October 26, 2009
  20. ^ NN: Medal of Honor for Eilert Tantzen . In: Nordwest-Zeitung ( NWZ ); Online version February 2, 2012, accessed May 15, 2017
  21. ↑ NLA OL Dep 73 - Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved November 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Tantzen, Eilert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tantzen, Ernst Eilert Eckart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester, genealogist, local researcher, conservationist and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Marsow , today part of Vellahn
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2012