Fredo Rittershofer

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Fredo Rittershofer (born February 17, 1933 in Karlsruhe ; † September 7, 2008 in Bogenhausen ) was a German forest scientist and from 1976 to 1998 professor of silviculture at the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences .

Life

After graduating from the Margrave High School in the Karlsruhe district Durlach Fredo Rittershofer studied as a scholarship from the Study Foundation of the German National Forestry and Natural Sciences at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and received his doctorate there in connection to the Doctor of Science . After passing the Great State Forest Examination in Baden-Württemberg, he was part of a delegation to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome for two years . From there he visited several African countries and carried out forest development aid. The results of his investigations formed the basis for the establishment of a "Savanna Working Group", which was supposed to support forest cooperation between African countries.

Following his return to the Baden-Württemberg State Forestry Administration, he initially worked as a forest assessor before becoming part of a delegation to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to work on development aid projects . In 1964 he moved to the Silviculture Institute of the University of Freiburg and was appointed Academic Senior Councilor.

From the summer of 1971 to 1976 there followed a development mission in Curitiba, Brazil : Rittershofer was commissioned as a project manager there as part of the Freiburg-Curitiba university partnership, together with ten colleagues from Germany, to set up the first forest science faculty in Brazil, to hold lectures in Portuguese, the new faculty spatially and set up equipment and direct scientific work. Rittershofer's project proposal to set up a forest technology school in Irati / Paraná was implemented in 1974.

In 1976 Rittershofer was appointed professor of silviculture at the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences. A teaching position at the Department of Land Care at the Technical University of Munich- Weihenstephan expanded his teaching activities there. The natural silviculture including permanent forest and the plenter principle formed a fixed focus of his silviculture teaching. One of his most important publications is the book “Forest Care and Silviculture”, which found its way into silvicultural training at the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences and other universities. At the end of the 1998 winter semester, Fredo Rittershofer formally retired; he held his last lectures and exams in 2002 at the Technical University of Munich.

Fredo Rittershofer was involved in the Working Group on Natural Forest Management (ANW) and in the Bavarian Ecological Hunting Association (ÖJV), which he chaired in the 1990s. Under his motto "The forest shows whether the hunt is right", he advocated a significant reduction in excessive hoofed game populations, which he considered to be one of the key requirements for successful natural and near-natural silviculture.

Rittershofer was married and had five sons together with his wife Gisela Ritterhofer. He died on September 7, 2008 at the Bogenhausen Clinic after a long illness at the age of 75.

Memberships

Publications

  • Fredo Rittershofer: Forest maintenance and silviculture: for study and practice; with a section on nature conservation in the forest . Gisela Rittershofer Verlag Freising, Freising 1999, ISBN 978-3-930770-01-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k ÖJV Bayern (ed.): 20 years ÖJV Bayern - 1988 - 2008 - Festschrift . 2008, ISBN 3-89014-301-6 , pp. 33 ff., 65 ff . ( archive.org [PDF; accessed January 14, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Professor Dr. Fredo Rittershofer died . In: LWF Waldforschung aktuell . No. 26 . LWF, 2008, ISSN  1435-4098 , p. 37 ( archive.org [PDF; accessed October 2, 2019]).
  3. ^ An entry in the catalog of the German National Library states that 1932 was the year of birth.
  4. ↑ Fredo Rittershofer passed away . In: BDF aktuell . 49th year. Association of German Foresters , November 2018, ISSN  0945-6538 , p. 15 .
personal data
SURNAME Rittershofer, Fredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2008
Place of death Bogenhausen