Ekkehard Schwartz

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Ekkehard Schwartz (born April 5, 1926 in Altenburg ; † September 7, 2005 in Eberswalde ) was a German forest scientist . He emerged primarily with works on the forest history of the GDR and was one of the most outstanding forest historians in Germany. All studies on the development of forest ownership in the new federal states that were made after reunification were based on his work.

family

Ekkehard Schwartz was the son of lawyers, government council and deputy district administrator of the district Altenburg Hugo Schwartz and his wife Maria Magdalena, the daughter of the landowner Alfred Heinke from Göldschen . His grandfather was the lawyer and princely blackburg-rudolstadt secret government councilor Hugo Schwartz, who was awarded the Mecklenburg Commander's Cross of the Order of the Griffin with collar for his services by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Ekkehard Schwartz came from the old Rudolstadt jurist family Schwartz , whose members held office as court counselor , privy councilor , chamber president and judicial councilor , and as theologians and the like, primarily as lawyers in the service of the princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . a. held the office of court preacher and general superintendent and also acted as medic, member of the state parliament and judge.

The lawyer, councilor and district administrator August Reinbrecht was the husband of Charlotte Reinbrecht, b. Schwartz, his father's sister.

Live and act

Ekkehard Schwartz was born on April 5, 1926 in Altenburg. However, he spent his childhood and youth in Meiningen , where he also attended the Bernhardinum high school. He could not complete his school education because he was finally drafted into the Wehrmacht during the Second World War . In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he was not released until 1950. In that year he also passed his Abitur as an external student . Then, after a few months of service in the field, he began his professional training in Berlin and Eberswalde with studies at the forestry faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin , which he graduated in 1954 with a degree in forestry. Already in his dissertation he treated a forestry historical subject: the forest management process Gottlob king . Then Albert Richter , who was himself a recognized forest historian, accepted him into the recently founded department "Forestry History" of the Institute for Forest Sciences Eberswalde. 1957 doctorate Schwartz with a dissertation about Gottlob king to Dr. rer. silv.

In addition, he set up a forest history information and research center in the still young department. Thanks largely to Schwartz, a comprehensive index of forest-historically significant records of relevant book and magazine publications was created. The period from the 18th century to 1969 is indexed on around 75,000 index cards - the section “ Bibliographies , Necrologists ” alone comprises 8,200 references. This extensive collection of sources was the basis for numerous research on forest history, for example for the changes in forest area since the 18th century in Thuringia as well as the history of common forest ownership and the development of forest ownership in eastern Germany, especially after reunification with its extensive restructuring. All publications on this topic after 1990 are based on Schwartz's work.

In addition to various forest biographies, including about Hans Dietrich von Zanthier , Schwartz also wrote a “ study on the development of the social situation of forest workers in Germany from the mid-19th century to the present ”, which was designed as a habilitation thesis . In addition, he worked on forest and hunting history magazine articles, supervised dissertations and habilitations . But in 1969 there was a break in the processing of forest history in the GDR when, at the instigation of the SED leadership, all forest history work in Eberswalde had to be abruptly stopped and the "Forestry History" department had to be dissolved. Schwartz's own habilitation process was also no longer desired and its completion was prevented by the influence of party leaders. However, Schwartz stayed in Eberswalde and switched to the "Information / Documentation" department of the Institute for Forest Sciences as a research assistant, where he was also the deputy department head from 1974. In this new function, too, he continued to publish works on forest history, including " Die Forstwirtschaft der DDR " (1984).

Even after he officially retired in 1991, when he was most recently deputy head of the information department at the Research Institute for Forestry and Wood Management in Eberswalde, Schwartz remained active in publishing and teaching - and experienced a renaissance. Because many of his writings could now be published unhindered after the fall of the Wall - the Faculty of Forest, Geosciences and Hydrosciences at the Technical University of Dresden also accepted his post- doctoral thesis, which had been stopped in 1969, in 1992 . At the newly founded Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences , Schwartz also became a lecturer in forest history, hunting history and customs in 1993 . In 2004, at the age of 78, he held the forest history lectures.

In 1996, together with Rolf Zundel , Schwartz published the standard work “ 50 Years of Forest Policy in Germany ( 1945-1994 ) ” and worked in Karl Hasel's standard work , “ Forest History - A Floor Plan for Study and Practice ”, the findings of forest history research in the former GDR a. The new edition was published in 2002. In addition to biographies about Wichard Graf von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1996) and again Gottlob König (1999), the study " Responsibility for the forest - the history of forestry in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR " ( 1998), to which Schwartz played a key role. His last work was " Trailblazer for Sustainable Forest Management in Thuringia " (2005). In addition, Schwartz was one of the authors of the series Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). In total, the bibliography of the outstanding researcher in forest history comprises more than 15 books and 300 other publications.

Dr. rer. silv. habil. Ekkehard Schwartz died surprisingly on September 7, 2005 in Eberswalde.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Thank god king. His life's work as a contribution to forestry history , dissertation, Berlin 1957
  • In the footsteps of master forestry and hunter Hans Dietrich von Zanthier , Eberswalde 1967 (2nd, extended edition, Remagen-Oberwinter 2004, ISBN 3-935638-43-4 )
  • For the 200th birthday of Wilhelm Pfeil , Eberswalde 1983
  • Forestry in the GDR , Berlin 1983
  • 120 years of forest research in Eberswalde , Eberswalde 1990
  • together with Klaus Höppner and Siegfried Wenske: 120 years of the forest association in Brandenburg. 1873-1993 , Potsdam 1993
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. eh Alfred Dengler (1874 - 1944). On the 50th anniversary of death , Eberswalde 1994
  • together with Rolf Zundel: 50 Years of Forest Policy in Germany (1945-1994) , Münster 1996, ISBN 3-7843-2771-0
  • Wichard Graf von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff - a private forest owner as a pioneer in the cultivation of foreign tree species , Berlin 1996
  • The development of forest ownership between 1945 and 1990 in the new federal states , Eberswalde 1996
  • Working and living conditions of forest workers in the 19th and early 20th centuries in Germany . Habilitation thesis. Groß-Umstadt 1998
  • together with Horst Mildner: Forest conversion in the Schorfheide . In memory of Oberlandforstmeister Dr. phil. Erhard Hausendorff , Eberswalde 1998, ISBN 3-933352-06-1
  • as co-author: In responsibility for the forest - the history of forestry in the Soviet zone of occupation and the GDR , Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-933352-00-2
  • Gottlob König - a life for forest and landscape (series of portraits of important Thuringian foresters ), Erfurt 1999, ISBN 3-933956-02-1
  • as co-author: Adam Schwappach . A forest scientist and his legacy , Hanstedt 2001, ISBN 3-927848-33-6
  • as co-author: The Hunt in the GDR , Hanstedt 2001
  • together with Karl Hasel: Forest history - a plan for study and practice , 2nd, updated edition, Remagen 2002, ISBN 3-935638-26-4
  • Pioneers of sustainable forest management in Thuringia , Remagen 2005, ISBN 3-935638-71-X

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family Schwartz through the last three centuries, Government Councilor Hugo Schwartz, Buchdruckerei R. Werner Ostheim vdRhön, 1932, p. 60.
  2. ^ Family Schwartz through the last three centuries, Government Councilor Hugo Schwartz, Buchdruckerei R. Werner, Ostheim vdRhön, 1932, pp. 58, 59.
  3. ^ Family Schwartz through the last three centuries, Government Councilor Hugo Schwartz, Buchdruckerei R. Werner, Ostheim vdRhön, 1932 ,.
  4. ^ Family Schwartz through the last three centuries, Government Councilor Hugo Schwartz, Buchdruckerei R. Werner, Ostheim vdRhön, 1932, p. 60.

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personal data
SURNAME Schwartz, Ekkehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2005
Place of death Eberswalde