Franz Bauer (forester)

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Franz Bauer (born April 28, 1923 in Crock , today part of the municipality of Auengrund in Thuringia ; † October 5, 2001 in Stuttgart ) was a German forester and journalist . From 1957 to 1988 he was editor-in-chief of the Allgemeine Forst-Zeitschrift (AFZ) , which during this time developed into the largest German-language specialist publication in the forest and environmental sector.

Live and act

Franz Bauer was born on April 28, 1923 in the Thuringian town of Crock, where his father ran the "Schützenhof" with restaurants and farms. As the eldest of three sons, he grew up in his home town and graduated from high school in Hildburghausen in February 1941 . He then had to do his labor and military service and came as an officer candidate to the Eastern Front in December 1941 , where he was seriously wounded in February 1942. It was only in Prague that he received the right treatment for his injuries caused by a bullet through his face. After his recovery and although he was admitted to the higher forest service of the state of Thuringia in May 1943 , he continued his officer training and came to France on the Atlantic in February 1944 as a liaison officer .

As a result of the Allied invasion, Bauer fell into French, Canadian and British captivity in England. From there, an international Red Cross exchange of wounded brought him back home in February 1945. However, when US troops took his place of birth Crock, he was immediately in American captivity and was taken to a prison camp near Waltershausen , from which he managed to escape. He just had his forestry apprenticeship at the forestry office Unterneubrunn begun as 1945, Soviet troops occupied his home in July after the Americans the country Thuringia against a sector of Berlin had exchanged with the Soviet occupying forces.

Bauer then took over the repatriation of refugees from the Saarland and left his home. He immediately took part in the forestry faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in Hann. Münden to study forest sciences , which he completed in 1950. During his academic years, Bauer was also active as chairman of the General Student Committee (ASTA) of the forestry faculty. As early as 1951 he received his doctorate with the dissertation Die Roteiche 1950. A yield-based, biological and wood-based study by Reinhard Schober in Hann. Münden to Dr. forest. After his legal clerkship , which he completed with the Great State Forest Examination , he worked from 1953 onwards, initially as a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation and in the following years dealt with operational planning in private forest companies . In 1955, Bauer became the managing director of the National Poplar Commission of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests in Bonn .

Two years later, however, the company had to move again, this time to Stuttgart , where Franz Bauer took over as the successor to Leo Freiherr von Ow on April 1, 1957, as editor of the Allgemeine Forstzeitschrift (AFZ) and forestry editing for the BLV publishing company in Munich . From 1958 to 1968 he also worked in Stuttgart as the state manager of the German Forest Protection Association (SDW). For the BLV-Verlag, Bauer was involved as an author and employee in dozens of forest related books and wrote hundreds of articles during his more than 30 years as editor-in-chief of the AFZ , in whose development into the largest German-language specialist publication in the forest and environmental sector he played a major role would have. The journal also gained international weight through its journalistic commitment to the protection and preservation of forests, the promotion of sustainable forestry, as well as landscape management and environmental protection . The AFZ repeatedly intervened in current political discussions, for example in the 1980s in the debate about “ forest dieback ”. In 1985, Bauer published the special volume in book form, The Thing with the Forest, in order to objectify the conflict, which in some cases was very emotional . Facts, dangers, causes, help. Up-to-date forest knowledge of the AFZ out, one of the most important presentations of the problem around the new kind of forest damage from these years. When Franz Bauer retired in 1988, long-time AFZ editor Bernd-Gunther Encke became his successor as editor-in-chief.

Retirement was welcome for Bauer. Because after the reunification of Germany in 1990 he was able to turn back to his homeland Thuringia, where he found a new field of activity. So he not only made himself available there for the development of a modern forest administration, but was also one of the co-founders of the Thuringian Forest Association on March 31, 1990 . As an honor, Bauer also supported his home community of Crock on its way to a holistic community development. In addition to this consulting activity, he devoted himself intensively to local research . This resulted in the illustrated book "Heimat Crock" (2001), which he did not live to see published.

Franz Bauer died on October 5, 2001 in Stuttgart. According to his last wish, he was buried in the family grave on the Crocker Irmelsberg.

Awards

In addition to numerous honors, Dr. Franz Bauer awarded the following awards:

Fonts (selection)

  • The red oak 1950. A yield-based-biological and wood-based investigation , dissertation, Hann. Münden 1951 (later under the title Die Roteiche , Frankfurt am Main 1953)
  • as editor: Advances in Forestry. Development and status of forest knowledge and experience in the last 15 years , Munich, Bonn and Vienna 1960
  • as editor: Forest, Wildlife and Industrial Landscape , Stuttgart-Heumaden 1960
  • together with Günther Zimmermann: The forest in numbers from A - Z , Munich, Basel and Vienna 1963
  • as editor: Mensch, Wald und Forstwirtschaft in 1980
    • Hans Evers: Part 1: Population and National Economy in 1980. With special consideration of agriculture and forestry , Munich, Basel and Vienna 1962
    • Erich Wohlfarth: Part 2: Silviculture today and tomorrow , Munich, Basel and Vienna 1967
  • as editor: The thing with the forest. Facts, dangers, causes, help. Current forest knowledge of the AFZ , (special volume of the Allgemeine Forst-Zeitschrift), Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1985
  • as editor: Der Forstbetriebsdienst , Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1987 ( ISBN 3-405-13404-8 )
  • as main author: Heimat Crock - The 850-year development of Crock (municipality of Auengrund / South Thuringia) , Crock 2001

literature

  • Anonymous: Dr. Franz Bauer 50 years , in: Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift (AFZ) . 28th year, issue 17/1973, p. 423
  • Hans Achim Gussone : Dr. Farmer 60 years old , in: Der Forst- und Holzwirt , 38th year, issue 8/1983, pp. 207–208
  • Wolfgang Dertz: Dr. Franz Bauer 70 , in: Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift (AFZ) . 48th year, issue 10/1993, p. 518
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Crock , today part of the municipality of Auengrund , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 2001
Place of death Stuttgart