Ernst Gehrhardt

Ernst Gehrhardt (* 1867 in Zella Sankt Blasii ; † February 14, 1936 in Nordshausen-Siedlung am Brasselsberg ) was a German forest scientist , Prussian chief forestry adviser and professor at the Hann. Münden .

Ernst Gehrhardt passed his Abitur in 1887 at the secondary school in Meiningen . During his studies Gehrhardt became a member of the Association of German Students in Munich. He received his doctorate in 1901 at the University of Tübingen . After completing his apprenticeship, he took over the municipal forest rangers in Koblenz and Vallendar . He was expelled from the French-occupied Rhineland after 1919 and worked in the Magdeburg Forestry Institution as a government and forestry councilor . From 1923 until his retirement in 1934, he was in charge of the Kattenbühl forestry teaching office and, as a full professor, the Institute for Forest Management and Yield Management at the Forestry University of Hann. Münden. Gehrhardt was already in the NSDAP before 1933 and signed the confession of the German professors to Adolf Hitler in November 1933 . He supported the anti-Semitic actions of the forest students against his colleague Richard Falck .

Gehrhardt's yield tables have become internationally known. He increased the yield through the fast-growing operation in the forest.

Fonts

• The theoretical and practical meaning of the arithmetic middle stem : together with the appendix , Keyssner, Meiningen 1901 (= dissertation).
• Yield tables for oak, beech, fir, spruce and pine , J. Springer, Berlin 1923.
• Yield tables for pure and similar high forest stands of oak, beech, fir, spruce, pine, green Douglas fir and larch , J. Springer, Berlin 1930.
• A study on the determination of the content of sample strains , Parey, Berlin 1932.

literature

• Obituary in: European Journal of Forest Research 58, 1936, p. 288 ( online ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 65.