Ernst von Eschwege

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Ernst Karl Hermann Julius Clemens von Eschwege (born July 15, 1859 in Oker , † March 29, 1932 in Wernigerode ) was a German forester and painter . From 1897 to 1929 he served as chief forester , the forest administration of Prince Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode .

Life

E. von Eschwege, shot on Oct. 4, 1918 by Oberforstmeister v. Eschwege. Auf dem Huhnholze (near the central station crossing.)

Ernst von Eschwege came from the noble family von Eschwege and was the eldest son of Rudolf von Eschwege, chief factor at the Communion-Unterharzer Hüttenwerke in Oker, and his wife Clementine nee. by Poseck. He attended the village school in Oker from the age of 5 to 9. From 1869 he went to secondary school in Goslar . After seven months of forest apprenticeship in Lauterberg , he stayed from 1880 to 1886 with interruptions to study at the Royal Prussian Forest Academy in Hannoversch Münden , where he took the state examination.

From 1890 to 1893 von Eschwege worked as a government and forest assessor in the service of Prince von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in Rudolstadt . On September 1, 1893, he took up the position of royal Prussian chief forester in Worbis in Eichsfeld . At the mediation of the Chamber President Rudolf Grisebach, von Eschwege joined the senior civil service of Prince zu Stolberg-Wernigerode in 1897 with a one-year probationary period and was taken on for life on April 1, 1898. His title was initially forest council. On July 22, 1900 he was promoted to captain of the Landwehr I ( hunter ). On September 28, 1901, he was appointed princely chief forest master.

During his more than 30 years in the princely service, Ernst von Eschwege successfully managed the management of the extensive forest holdings from the Brocken to the Hohnsteiner Forest and has proven himself to be an excellent forest manager and dutiful civil servant even under difficult economic conditions. In his spare time he painted forest landscapes and the animals living there. He died in the house he bought shortly before his death in Wernigerode, Burgberg 9 (old: Tiergarten 41a).

Since March 14, 1891, he was married to Margarethe Pinckernelle, daughter of a Hamburg ship and insurance broker. She died on December 15, 1924. The daughters Maria (* 1891 in Rudolstadt), Eva (* 1893 in Rudolstadt) and Margarethe (* 1895 in Wernigerode) emerged from the marriage.

Honors

personal data
SURNAME Eschwege, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eschwege, Ernst Karl Hermann Julius Clemens von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester and painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Oker (Goslar)
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1932
Place of death Wernigerode