Friedrich Hartig

Friedrich Karl Theodor Hartig , von Hartig from 1812 , (* December 12, 1788 in Hungen ; † May 4, 1850 in Düben ) was a German forest official.

Life

Hartig-Rasch monument in the Bad Düben spa gardens

origin

He was a son of the Fürstlich zu Solms-Braunfelsischen forester Georg Ludwig Hartig (1764-1837) and his wife Theodora Elisabeth, née Klipstein (1767-1837). The Hessian Minister of State Jakob Christian Klipstein (1715–1786) was his maternal grandfather, the forest scientist Theodor Hartig his younger brother.

Career

Hartig studied forest science in Dillenburg and then joined the riding body hunter corps of the Württemberg army in order to get a chance for a position in the Württemberg forest service . Hartig served as a lieutenant with the king's hunters on horseback from 1808 to 1812 in Eßlingen . Having to take part in the Napoleonic Russian campaign, he was wounded in the Battle of Mosaisk, not far from Moscow , but was then able to escape from Russia . King Friedrich awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Military Merit . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility . In 1812 Hartig switched to Prussian military service . Subsequently, he took part as an officer in the Silesian Uhlan Regiment during the Wars of Liberation in the Battle of Leipzig and in 1815 in the Battle of Waterloo , for which he received the Iron Cross II. Class and the Russian Order of St. Vladimir .

After the end of the war, Hartig resumed his studies in Berlin and passed his forestry exam in 1816. His first position was that of a head forester in Mühlenbeck (Pomerania). In 1823 he also became head of the large forest tree nursery in Glien, which was founded on the initiative of PJ Lenné . Because of his professional merits, Hartig was awarded the Red Eagle Order IV class in 1830 . From 1832 to 1843 he held the position of forest inspector in Schwedt / Oder . Then he was appointed head forester at the Tornau forest ranger's office , based in Düben . In 1846 he was a committed co-initiator of the establishment of the city park, today's Bad Düben spa park, which was one of the first civic parks in Germany to be established.

Hartig died on May 4, 1850 as a result of a riding accident and was buried next to his second wife in Düben ; the grave is still being tended. In his honor, as well as the Düben city park co-founder Julius Albert Rasch , the Hartig-Rasch memorial was erected in the spa gardens of Bad Düben in 1887 .

family

Married to Rosin Charlotte Rüpel († 1830) in his first marriage since 1818 and to Laura Günther in the second since 1841, he had a total of five daughters as descendants.

Works

About his work, Hartig wrote, among other things, the publication Description of some forest culture instruments in 1830 . Treatise about interesting objects in forestry and hunting . In 1840 five articles were published by him in: New Yearbooks of Forestry Studies , including: The Forest School in Königl. Prussia. Mühlenbeck district in Pomerania .

literature

• Hans-Joachim Weimann : Hartigiana. Georg Ludwig Hartig in the midst of five generations of a forester family . Biebertal 1990, pp. 263-270.
• Bernd Bendix: History of forest plant cultivation in Germany from its beginnings to the end of the 19th century, Diss. B - Institute for Forest Sciences Eberswalde 1990, p. 207 ff.
• Bernd Bendix: Friedrich Karl Theodor (von) Hartig. in: 1995 home calendar for north-west Saxony and the Dübener Heide. Bad Düben 1994, p. 57 ff.
• Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Hartig, Friedrich Karl Theodor (von). In: Important historical personalities of the Düben Heath. AMF - No. 237, 2012, p. 37.

See also

• Kurpark Bad Düben, founded by Friedrich Hartig and JA Rasch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung: Bad Dübener has been looking after the grave of the park founder for 18 years. September 28, 2017. Retrieved October 8, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Description of some forest culture instruments. Treatise on interesting forest and hunting items on Google Books , accessed June 20, 2017