Ernst J. Martin

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Ernst J. Martin

Ernst J. Martin (born September 20, 1900 in Kassel , † March 31, 1967 in Kaldenkirchen ) was a German dendrologist , author , conservationist and dentist .

Life

Ernst Josef Martin was the son of a lawyer from Kassel; he studied dentistry in Würzburg and Freiburg; then he emigrated to the USA , where he worked first in California and later for several years in the Aleutian Islands (chain of islands in Alaska ). On behalf of the state, he conducted dental examinations among the locals in southern New Mexico and among the Eskimos on the islands belonging to Alaska. On returning to Germany, he married the dentist Illa (Sybilla) Kesselburg in 1935, with whom he opened a joint practice in Kaldenkirchen.

Like his wife, he was very interested in botanicals; both began to pursue their dendrological inclinations intensively after the Second World War. In 1947 the Kaldenkirchen border forest burned down completely; what remained was pure sandy soil, which threatened the fields with flying sand. Ernst J. Martin suggested the establishment of the Waldwirtschaftsgemeinschaft Kaldenkirchen (WWG), which took place on November 14, 1949, in which almost all farmers with their approximately 5,000 small forest plots joined forces and helped to organize exemplary reforestation under difficult post-war conditions.

Entrance area of ​​the Sequoiafarm Kaldenkirchen

In 1951 the Martin couple founded the Kaldenkirchen Sequoia farm . It had seeds from the giant sequoia tree ( Sequoiadendron giganteum ) sent from the USA . As early as 1953, 1500 two-year-old specimens of the giant sequoia were cared for alongside coastal redwoods ( Sequoia sempervirens ) and other species with the support of the German Research Foundation . One of the research objectives was to examine the possibilities for introducing these trees into German forestry. Today the Sequoia farm is a well-known arboretum with over 600 types of wood. In 1962 he accepted an invitation from the American government to visit the original Sequoia forests of the Sierra Nevada .

The couple had two sons and a daughter, including the author and songwriter Erik Martin and the lawyer and expert Helge Breloer .

Ernst J. Martin was a member of the German Forest Protection Association and a council member of the German Dendrological Society . He died in 1967. In 1983 in Nettetal, the “Dr. Martin Weg ”.

Fonts

  • 170 degrees west of Greenwich . Grenzlandverlag Hollands, Aachen 1947.
  • Fall and rebuilding of the Kaldenkirchen border forest . In: Fredeburg series of publications, volume: Nature conservation and landscape management in NRW . Henn. Ratingen, 1951.
  • The border forest . In: Heimatbuch des Grenzkreis Kempen-Krefeld . Kempen 1951.
  • Landscaping through afforestation in the border areas . In: The Lower Rhine . tape 1/1953 , 1953, ISSN  0342-5673 .
  • Sequoias in German forestry? In: Looking around in science and technology . 1954, ISSN  0041-6347 .
  • Sequoia - a wood-historical consideration . In: Holz-Zentralblatt . tape 83 , 1955, ISSN  0018-3792 .
  • Neoplastic growth in Sequoiadendron giganteum . In: Phytopathologische Zeitschrift . tape 30 . Parey, 1957, ISSN  0031-9481 .
  • Border forest on the Lower Rhine . In: Our forest . tape 6 , 1957, ISSN  0935-7017 .
  • The sequoia and their cultivation . In: Yearbook of the German Dendrological Society . tape 60 , 1957.
  • Waldwirtschaftsgemeinschaft Kaldenkirchen . In: The forest farmer . tape 18 , 1957.
  • The evolution of trees and humans in the radiation field of the ice ages . In: Yearbook of the Dendrological Society . tape 61 . Stuttgart 1959.
  • Robert W. Service . A Canadian poet and writer wrongly unknown in Germany, as well as translations of his ballads. Posthumously in: middens / gwf No. 15, Viersen 1969th.

Awards

literature

  • Arthur Lange: Science as a hobbyhorse. Lay researchers - their achievements and their science . Holsten. Hamburg 1967
  • Herbert Hubatsch: From the Sequoia farm to the biological station . In: Heimatbuch des Kreis Kempen-Krefeld . Kempen 1973
  • Hans Huth: Sequoias in Germany . In: Journal of Forest History , Volume 3, July 1976. Durham (USA). ISSN  0094-5080

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Hubatsch: Ernst Martin . In: The Lower Rhine . Krefeld. Issue 3, 1967
  2. ↑ Ernst J. Martin: The great forest fire . In: Heimatbuch des Kreis Kempen-Krefeld . Kempen 1958
  3. ^ Ernst J. Martin: Waldwirtschaftsgemeinschaft Kaldenkirchen . In: The forest farmer . No. 18. 1957
  4. ↑ Heinz-Willi Schmitz: Three decades of reforestation of the border forest Kaldenkirchen . In: Home book of the district of Viersen . Viersen 1981
  5. ^ Herbert Hubatsch: Ernst Martin . In: The Lower Rhine . Krefeld. Issue 3, 1967
  6. ↑ Rheinische Post of April 30, 1983
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Ernst J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dendrologist, author, conservationist and dentist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1967
Place of death Kaldenkirchen